In 1911, brothers O. D. Fisher and O. W. Fisher began milling flour at the Fisher Flouring Mills on Seattle's Harbor Island in Elliott Bay. The grain silo and milling complex was one of the first facilities built on the artificial island after the island's completion in 1909. In 2001, Fisher sold the mill to Pendleton Flour Mills. The mill closed in 2002, and the property was sold to King County in 2003.
This image of the Fisher Flouring Mill's grain silos and property on Harbor Island faces north east from the West Waterway of the Duwamish River, with downtown Seattle visible in the distance. West Waterway Lumber Company and the marble yard of a monument company can be seen in the foreground.
Webster & Stevens number: 54280
Caption information source: "Fisher Flouring Mills officially opens on Harbor Island in Elliott Bay on June 1, 1911," by Priscilla Long, HistoryLink.org Essay 3927
Physical Description: 1 negative : glass, b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant. Metadata updated as part of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.
