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Bridge in Seattle, Washington
Grant Street Bridge
View from north west Beacon Hill, ca. 1900
CarriesPrimary thoroughfare from between Seattle and South Seattle
CrossesDuwamish River and Elliott Bay mudflats
LocaleSeattle, Washington
Characteristics
DesignTimber-pile bridge

The Grant Street Bridge was a main thoroughfare in Seattle, Washington, constructed in 1886. The bridge was built on timber piles, or a pier, as the city grew south over the mudflats of Elliott Bay's shore and the Duwamish River estuary. The structure was expansive and, based on various accounts from the time, stretched between half to a full mile long. The city eventually filled in the tideflats to create Seattle Boulevard, the arterial later called Airport Way.

References

  1. ^ Tobin, Caroline (May 2004). "Beacon Hill Historic Context Statement" (PDF). City Of Seattle Department Of Neighborhoods. Retrieved September 21, 2019.
  2. Stein, Alan J. (January 18, 2000). "HistoryLink essay 2074, Thomson, Reginald Heber (1856-1949)". HistoryLink. Retrieved September 21, 2019.
  3. Pacific Reporter, Vol 29. West Publishing Company. 1892. p. 1059.
  4. Bagely, Clarence (1916). History of Seattle from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume 2. Seattle, WA: S.J. Clarke Publishing Company. p. 821.

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