Seattle HistoricTour
With a population of about 750,000 people, Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of USA.
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| Walking to the Seattle waterfront to join a walking tour of downtown |
With a population of about 750,000 people, Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of USA.
Since watching the movie "Sleepless in Seattle", I always wanted to visit this city.
As it is only about 2.5 hour car ride from Vancouver, we took advantage of the opportunity and drove there with our friends.
We are here! We want to learn as much as possible about the history, culture and people of this city.
As it is only about 2.5 hour car ride from Vancouver, we took advantage of the opportunity and drove there with our friends.
We are here! We want to learn as much as possible about the history, culture and people of this city.
We booked a guided walking tour of the historic neighbourhood for the first day of our visit in Seattle.
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| An octopus sculpture near the Seattle Aquarium |
Walking to meet our tour group, we went past the Seattle Aquarium located at Pier 59 on the Seattle Waterfront.
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| Meeting our tour group at the Waterfront of Seattle |
We met our tour guide at Pier 55 at 11:00 am at the Waterfront.
A local historian, Chris, our tour guide gave us much information about Seattle.
We learned a lot about the settlers who landed in Pioneer Square in 1852 and how they set up mills to process the timber in the area.
But in 1889, the Great Seattle Fire burned down 33 city blocks including the Pioneer Square. Fortunately, there was no fatality at this great fire.
Seattle's 31,000 residents rebuilt after the great fire and elevated the downtown by a full story.
They replaced the burned down buildings with bricks and stone structures to prevent such great tragedy from happening again.
As a result, most of the buildings in Pioneer Square are of a certain style.
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| Pioneer Building, Pioneer Square, Seattle |
The Pioneer Building above is supposed to be the most beautiful building of its kind on the west coast of the U.S.
In Pioneer Square, we saw the local tribal leader Chief Sealh's statue. Seattle was named after him
We also learned about how land was taken from the indigenous people by the American government at the time.
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| Iron Pergola, Pioneer Square |
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| One of the many trendy shops in Pioneer Square |
There were many things to see in Pioneer Square.
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| Pioneer Park, Seattle, USA |
The streets are lined with interesting shops, restaurants and parks with chairs and tables for visitors.
Smith Tower, the tallest building outside New York City in the 1960's is also located around Pioneer Square.
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| Smith Tower, Seattle, USA |
Our historian tour guide gave us some interesting information about the Smith Tower:
The top three floors ( the triangular part ) of the Smith Tower are private residences owned by the 7th Microsoft employee who made the top floor of the building ( the first triangular window on the top of the building), the playroom for her children.
What child would not want a playroom with such an amazing view!
Seattle is an interesting city with a rich history.
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| Downtown Seattle, USA |
Some of the world's biggest companies are located in and around the city of Seattle, such as Amazon, UPS, Microsoft, and Boeing.
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| Waterfront area, Seattle, USA |
We look forward to visiting other famous places in Seattle in the next few days!
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| S. & A. standing on the skylights for the Underground shops in Seattle |
R.T.
Pioneer Square
Seattle, Washington
USA
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