Washington Shorelines Now and Then

 For 5,000 years the Black River was the southern outlet for Lake Washington flowing southwest into the Duwamish River. The Cedar River flow...

Opened in the 1870's as a small boat builder called Anderson Shipyard, the Lake Washington Shipyard began it's legacy as a maritime ...

The North Wind Weir on the Duwamish River in Seattle is where the river ends it's channelized section and moves into it's un-straigh...

 I spend a lot of time paddling and walking the shorelines of Seattle's Salmon and Shilshole Bays and thinking about now and then perspe...

 From the Seattle Public Library Special Collections, a 1882 view of the Seattle waterfront at the approx base of Vine St. Cedar and Broad S...

The Duwamish River was straightened in 1913 after thousands of years as a natural flowing river whose tributaries originate below Mt Rainier...

Seattle experienced big changes along it's shorelines in the 20th century.  In Ballard, Shishole Bay went from a rural gravel covered be...

I came across this 1940 photo in one of the Magnolia Historical Society's books 'Magnolia Memories'.   What's significant a...

 Here's a fun comparison of the 1940's Ballard / Seattle shoreline and the current view from Google Earth.   The now view is of the ...

Sivert Engelsen Sagstad, a young Norwegian boat builder emigrated to Seattle and opened Ballard Boat Works, pictured here on lower Salmon Ba...

Here's another now and then view shot from about a block south of Salmon Bay Charlie's place, off 39th Ave W in Magnolia.  The 19...

1905 view of Hwelchteed and Cheethlooleetsa's home on the NE point of Magnola, across from Ballard.  Photo by Webster and Stevens.  ...