The River That Made Seattle

Restores the river to its central place in the city’s historyWith bountiful salmon and fertile plains, the Duwamish River has drawn people to its shores over the centuries for trading, transport, ...

Restores the river to its central place in the city’s historyWith bountiful salmon and fertile plains, the Duwamish River has drawn people to its shores over the centuries for trading, transport, and sustenance. Chief Se’alth and his allies fished and lived in villages here and white settlers established their first settlements nearby. Industrialists later straightened the river’s natural turns and built factories on its banks, floating in raw materials and shipping out airplane parts, cement, and steel. Unfortunately, the very utility of the river has been its undoing, as decades of dumping l