![]() The city quickly rebuilt and more homes worked their way up the south and east slopes of the hill. In 1889, downtown Seattle burned in the Great Fire. By 1890, Seattle's population had multiplied 12 times over 10 years. This was just across The Outlet from another growing community, Fremont. The Ross homestead on the north side at 3rd Avenue W and W Nickerson Street became the community of Ross with a general store, a post office, a school, and a railroad flag stop. In 1887, the Seattle Lake Shore & Eastern Railroad was completed along the west and north sides of the hill. ![]() That same year, the city approved a wagon road between Temperance Avenue (Queen Anne Avenue) and Farm Street (Aurora), which became Mercer Street. Daniel Bagley (1818-1905) asked people in jest, if they were going to "Queen Anne Town?" The name stuck and by 1885 Queen Anne appeared in real estate ads. As residents built their homes up the south side of the hill, they followed an architectural style known as Queen Anne, imported from England. Eden Hill had also been known as Galer Hill or North Seattle. In the 1880s, Seattle began to boom with new wealth from timber, coal, and real estate and in 1883, the Northern Pacific Railroad connected the city with the rest of the nation. George Kinnear (1839-1912) moved to Seattle from Illinois in 1878 and launched the transformation of Eden Hill into a residential district. The hurricane of March 1875 helped settlement by knocking down thousands of trees, but some houses and barns went as well. ![]() He even offered a two-for-one deal if the buyer immediately erected a house. In 1872, David Denny subdivided 500 acres into building lots, but these were slow to sell. A military road cut through the forest in the 1860s followed a Native American trail on the east side of the hill that would later become Dexter Avenue. Loggers found plenty of tall timber elsewhere where geography was more cooperative. The thick forest and steep slopes discouraged settlers who needed flat, open land on which to build their farms. ![]() Edmund Carr chose the northwest corner, on the south side of Salmon Bay.Įden Hill was slow to develop. John Ross picked the area on the north along The Outlet, the shallow creek that connected Lake Union to Salmon Bay. Henry Smith (1830-1915) staked out the cove on the west that would bear his name. Thomas Mercer (1813-1898) settled just north of the Denny claim next to Lake Union. Settlement of Eden Hill, as it was then known, began around the base. The claim was bounded by Lake Union and Elliott Bay and what would become Depot Street (Denny Way) and Mercer Street. On January 23, 1853, a famous Seattle honeymoon, that of David and Louisa (1827-1918) Denny, was spent on this land. The newcomers called the area Potlach Meadows because the Duwamish gathered there for tribal festivals. David Denny (1822-1899) liked the meadow (the alternative was dense forest) and he claimed 320 acres there. Denny (1822-1899) Party arrived and began filing claims to the land. A meadow south of the hill was called baba'kwob or prairies. It stretched between Lake Union and Elliott Bay and the tribes trapped ducks flying between Lake Union and Elliott Bay in nets. The Shilshole lived on the north side of Salmon Bay. When settlers from the United States arrived on Puget Sound, the Duwamish lived in permanent settlements of cedar long houses south of the hill at what became downtown Seattle. Native Americans of the Shilshole, Duwamish, and Suquamish tribes camped around the base of the hill to gather fish and shellfish, and to hunt. ![]() The hill was almost completely surrounded by water, Smith's Cove and Salmon Bay and the marsh that connected them on the west, Lake Union on the east, and a creek that connected Lake Union and Salmon Bay to the north. The hill that came to be known as Queen Anne was formed by the Vashon Glacier more than 13,500 years ago. Named for a style of architecture popular in the 1880s, the hill's steep slopes made it one of the last neighborhoods in Seattle to be completely developed. Queen Anne Hill is a largely residential community, rising 456 feet above Puget Sound. ![]()
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