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Yesler Way and Yesler's Mill, Seattle, 1873
Order an ImageHenry Yesler arrived in Seattle in 1852 and soon built the first steam-powered sawmill on Puget Sound. It was located on the waterfront at the foot of Mill Street, now called Yesler Way.
This 1873 image also shows the Pioneer Drug Store and the Seattle Bakery. Yesler's Wharf, where lumber schooners docked, would be beyond the mill's tall smokestack.
Title from original inventory: N. side of Mill west of 1st. Yesler Mill, left, 1870
SHS category: Lumbering - Mills & Camps
This 1873 image also shows the Pioneer Drug Store and the Seattle Bakery. Yesler's Wharf, where lumber schooners docked, would be beyond the mill's tall smokestack.
Title from original inventory: N. side of Mill west of 1st. Yesler Mill, left, 1870
SHS category: Lumbering - Mills & Camps
ID Number: SHS1108
Date: 1873
Physical Description: 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard: b&w ; 5.75 x 6.5 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant.
Credit: MOHAI, SHS1108
Copyright: No Known Copyright
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