Lake Washington Shipyard/Carillon Point
After the opening of the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks and the Lake Washington Ship Canal in 1917, several shoreline sites on Lake Washington grew in importance as shipyards and maintenance facilities. One of the most important was the Lake Washington Shipyards in Kirkland. Starting with ferries, the shipyard produced numerous warships in World War II. [...]
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University Shell House
The University of Washington is a sprawling campus with many buildings more than 50 years old. But only one structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the so-called “Naval Military Hanger-University Shell House,” also called the Canoe House. The building is located southeast of Husky Stadium at the entrance to the Lake [...]
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Welcoming Figure, Richmond Beach Park
Native peoples lived and traveled on Puget Sound waterways in canoes thousands of years before the arrival of European explorers and traders. In 1998, artists Steve Brown, Joe Gobin, and Andy Wilbur created Welcoming Figure, a ten-foot high bronze sculpture of a Coast Salish man and woman. They first carved Welcoming Figure out of red [...]
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Anacortes Community Maritime Center
The Anacortes Community Maritime Center is a not-for-profit organizations that offers classes and activities to help Anacortes-area residents and visitors learn more North Puget Sound’s maritime heritage and environmental stewardship.
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Washington Street Public Boat Landing
The Washington Street Public Boat Landing Facility on Seattle’s central waterfront illustrates the city’s reliance on Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean. The earliest Anglo-European settlers chose the area in the 1850s because of its natural harbor, which made Seattle the nation’s primary arrival and departure point for the Klondike gold fields in 1896. For [...]
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Lake Union Park
For more than 50 years, the US Naval Reserve trained recruits at a facility on the south end of Lake Union, an urban lake just north and east of Seattle’s downtown. The major feature on the Navy property was the Naval Reserve Building, sometimes called the Armory. Built in 1941, the blue, white and gold [...]
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Northwest Maritime Center
The Northwest Maritime Center (NWMC) is a multi-use waterfront campus that provides powerful maritime experiences for people of all generations. The 27,000 sq. ft. facility is made up of a deep-water pier, a public commons, and two buildings that include classrooms, a retail Chandlery and Cafe, conference and meeting rooms, the Boatshop, the H.W. McCurdy Library, a boat house [...]
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Stan Sayres Memorial Pits
The first week of August brings one of the most popular and famous water events to Seattle, the Seafair Hydroplane Races. The “thunderboats,” so-called because early racers installed booming engines from World War II-era fighter planes, use Stan Sayres Memorial Pits on Lake Washington as their staging area, as nearly a quarter million people watch [...]
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Indianola Pier
In the years before an extensive network of paved roads criss-crossed the area, a fleet of small passenger steamers cruised the waters of Puget Sound. The “mosquito fleet” stopped at nearly every small town and large city on the Sound. Only a few stops remain, including the Indianola Pier at the small town of Indianola [...]
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Jack Block Park
The Port of Seattle, formed in 1911 as a public entity, offers several opportunities for visitors and maritime enthusiasts to get close to port operations and ocean-going cargo vessels. The 15-acre Jack Block Park on the northern boundary of Terminal 5 on the extreme western edge of the port features interesting footbridges, walkways, public art, [...]
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