Seattle renaming happened each time the city grew. The council struggled to keep just one street with each name. Here’s what they did in 1906.
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Published October 5, 2022
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Published November 8, 2019
Ballard streets named by A. B. Jennings
Here’s the story, expanded now, that made me start researching Arthur Jennings. It started with Ballard streets. Stick with me here. We’re almost at the…
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Published September 6, 2019
Renaming Seattle’s Green Lake streets
This is a lookup table of Green Lake neighborhood of Seattle street names from the 1880s and 1890s together with their names today. For easy…
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Published August 20, 2019
Brygger Place: Ballard Streets revisited
This is a story about a street in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, Brygger Place. The data on Ballard A few years ago I published a table…
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Published July 16, 2019
Renaming Kirkland streets
This is a table of original and current street names in downtown Kirkland, Washington.
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Published July 15, 2019
Renaming streets of Seattle’s Fremont to the U District
Below is a lookup table for name changes from the 1870s to the present day in neighborhoods north of Lake Union in Seattle: Brooklyn (west…
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Published October 23, 2015
Renaming the streets of South and West Seattle
I transcribed three major street renaming events in early 1900s Seattle: West Seattle; Beacon Hill, Columbia City, and the Rainier Valley; and Georgetown. As each…
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Published March 22, 2015
Old Ballard Street Names, Searchable Table
Ballard was a city of its own until 1907, when the citizenry voted to be annexed into Seattle. Data updated significantly on 8/20/2019. The data…
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Published March 17, 2015
1895 Seattle Street Renaming, Searchable Table
The below table is a catalog of the changes made to Seattle’s street names at the end of 1895. This is a corrected, tabular format…
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