
The Pike Place Farmers Market is located at 1533 Pike Place in the Pike Place Market Historic District in Seattle, Washington




















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Pike Place Market
The Pike Place Public Market district is of particular significance in several ways. It is a unique living heritage out of the city’s past as a food market begun by farmers in 1907 operated continuously since that time. It is also of special cultural significance as a low cost market place and because of the sociological mixture of all peoples frequenting the market’s shoppers, tourists, merchants and simply persons enjoying the market activity. Many ethnic and racial groups are represented without apparent conflict in the long honored tradition of the place.
It includes the American tradition of the small independent businessman operating with enterprise and with service and with personal involvement. There are approximately 180-200 businesses in the district – many of long duration.
The district was added to the National Historic Register (#70000644) on March 13, 1970, some of the places in the district are:
It is a source of education in several ways. Tours are conducted for children and visitors. Art classes use it as a resource – and a source of inspiration and study. In a larger sense it provides a rich educational experience of people and processes. It is the human environment and the reflection of daily experiences and possibilities for these experiences that is necessary and most important. The process of food preparation and of availability of local produce sold by the farmers who grow it provides an educational experience not to be found elsewhere.
“The Pike Place Market of Seattle is a particularly unique, colorful and justly famous sight that appeals to all of the senses. It is an unusual attraction of civic value to be cherished and guarded, as well as one of the most interesting and richly picturesque shopping places in the country, and it is always worth a visit. Its charm and appeal are undeniable although difficult to identify. People of all sorts, sizes, shapes, and complexions are part of the ever changing pageant of this place both as shippers and as merchants. Some of the nationalities that are united to form the market complex are represented in such places as a Turkish restaurant, Filipino souvenir shop, Italian grocery, Greek restaurant and beer parlor, and Japanese florist. The produce of the countryside is aggressively offered by the farmers themselves, who are mainly
Japanese, Filipino, and Italian, still retaining their characteristic accents, and a number of excellent fish markets present an array of fresh sea foods. The various shops and services offer individual attention and at least the suggestion that every purchase is a bargain.” from “Seattle Cityscape”
“The market offers-an urban educational experience in the broadest sense by enabling people, and especially children, to see facets of humanity, activity, and aspects of the city not easily accessible elsewhere. Because there is no better place to shop for the best fresh produce, for out-of-the-ordinary foods and” for inexpensive goods of all kinds, the market is a prime shopping area for low-income people-its primary reason for existence-and for gourmets of eve economic level. Nowhere else is there to be found such a broad social mixture going about its business ‘in a natural and uninhibited way. People of all race all religions, all nationalities, and all income levels come together freely to work and shop, to linger and look and enjoy themselves in an easy atmosphere traditionally and necessarily free of prejudice. Here is the dramatic experience of people acting out their daily existence through face-to-face
encounter and involvement, in contrast to the sterile, dehumanizing environment that has grown to be typical of much of our urban world.
The market area is the kind of environment where the new can be allowed to grow up alongside the old, without destroying it; where a variety of forms and functions can be accommodated, to the inestimable enrichment of the city and its people’.”‘ from “Market Sketchbook”
There are a few outstanding architectural buildings such as the Butterworth Building and the Landes Block. Of historic significance is the Union Record (now Alaska Trade) building. The Pike Place Public Market Riding, the Economy Market Building, the Corner Market Building, the Sanitary Market Building, the Market Hotel Building, and a few others form an interesting and varied market core.
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inOne of the locations seen in the TV Series Grey’s Anatomy. Located at 303 W Comstock Street in Seattle, Washington
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Gas Works Park
Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington.
From Geocaching.com:
The Location
Gas Works Park is a ca. 20-acre public park located on the north shore of Lake Union at the south end of the Wallingford neighborhood. It is recognized in the National Register of Historic Places. Aside from the machines and structures of the former gasification plant, the location offers a stunning panorama of the Seattle skyline. If you can, wait till the lights start coming on at dusk!
History and Transformation
In the early 20th century, Seattle Gas Light Company purchased the land. They built a gas manufacturing plant in what was then a highly industrial area. At the time, it was the largest private utility in Seattle.
The plant produced illuminating gas, so-called because it was used for lighting. Later, the gas was also used for cooking, refrigeration, and heating homes and water. Hence, the origin of the park’s name — Gas Works Park. The gas was originally generated from coal. Production later switched to oil gas generators.
Gas production operations ceased in 1956. In 1962, the City of Seattle began purchasing the area. The transfer was completed and the park opened to the public in 1975.
The Play Barn
The building known as the Play Barn dates to the original coal-gas facility and was constructed of wood. It features the former pump house, ca. 7,340 square feet and boiler house, ca. 5,720 square feet. Their wood frames remain intact and in place on concrete slab foundations.
The former boiler house was turned into a picnic shelter. The tubes of one former boiler remain in place at the eastern end of the building. They are an impressive display of technology from days-passed.
The former pump house showcases most of its machinery still in place. It features pumps, piping and also its old 3,000 hp compressor. An old smoke arrestor hood has been refurbished as a play structure for climbing.
Kite Hill
Kite Hill offers stunning views and a fascinating history to its visitors. Thousands of cubic yards of rubble from old gas plant buildings were covered with fresh top soil, sewage sludge, and sawdust. What sounds gross at first was a successful early attempt of bioremediation. It is a natural way to decontaminate soil and groundwater. The area offered plenty of both from past days of gasification plant operation. Today, Gas Works Park is fully decontaminated and covered with lush green field grass.
Once visitors have reached the top of the hill, they are met by an unexpected artpiece — a sundial. It was created by two local artists, Chuck Greening and Kim Lazare. Their material of choice was concrete, which they delineated with rocks, shells, glass, bronze, and many other materials. The sundial tells time by using the body of the visitor as the gnomon. The viewer’s shadow tells the time of day and the season.
The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places (#02000862) on January 2, 2013 and is located at 2000 N. Northlake Way, Seattle, Washington
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inNisson Park in Washington, Utah.
Willard O. Nisson Park opened in May of 1999. Serving as a gateway to the city with the magnificent water wheel feature, Nisson Park also has a covered pavilion, a playground area, basketball hoops, a shaded walking path with picnic tables, restrooms and a large playing field.
There are some historic plaques on the main sign with the water wheel with the following information:
Washington City 1857
Washington City was founded by 38 southern families in the spring of 1857. Brigham Young called these families to serve on a mission to grow cotton in an area explored by John D. Lee in 1852. The mission was called the Cotton or Southern Mission. Brigham Young knew that southerners knew how to grow or at least had seen cotton grown. The city laid out on the 6 or 7 of May and the officials for the city’s operation were elected. Robert D. Covington was selected as the religious branch president, Harrison Pierce (Pearce) first counselor, and Jonathan R. Regeon (James B. Reagan) second counselor, Wm. R. Slade and James D. McCullough as Justices of the Peace, James Matthew and John Hawley as constables, Wm. Young and Joseph Adair as fence viewers, G.R.Coley was stray pound keeper, and Wm. R. Slade, Geo. Hawley and G.W. Spencer as school trustees. They immediately started to dig ditches, clear land and build a dam on the Rio Virgin so that they could plat crops. Cotton and corn were the main crops planted that first summer. Since they were Southerners they started to call thei new home “Dixie.” This name soon spread to the rest of the area so Washington City is Utah’s Dixie birthplace.
The area where the Willard O. Nisson park now stands was used as a campground in the latter part of the 1800’s. It was known as camp Washington and as Hall’s campground or pasture. Calvin Hall was the owner and operator of the campground. This provided for a place where visitors could come and stay in the small wooden cabins that were located on the property He also had a store located on the southeast corner of 200 W. and Telegraph St. This campground was the first place on Washington that had drinking water delivered in a pipe. A pipe was run from the northeast corner of 200 N. and 200 E. known as Hal’s Head House. This provided clean water to the campground. The water system to provide water to the homes in Washington was built in 1931.
The Antone and Leroy Nisson Families wanted to honor their father, Willard O. Nisson so they arranged for the building of this park. Through an exchange of properties, this property became available to that Washington City could construct this facility. Willard was known as a great schoolteacher, school principal, city mayor, and a talented musician. Willard’s sister Annie, the wife of Hans Peter Iverson, also came to Washington at this time. The Willard Nisson family home was located on the northwest corner of Main St. and Telegraph St.
Telegraph Street
When Washington was laid out in May, 1857, there was not a street named or located where Telegraph Street is today. It was not until the resurvey of January, 1873, ordered by Wm. Snow, Judge of the Probate Court dated December, 1872, that Telegraph Street was shown on a city map. The Telegraph was completed between St. George and Logan, Utah on January 10, 1867, and the wire for the telegraph was located about where Telegraph Street is today; therefore the name Telegraph Street.
Millcreek Mills
Machine Creek was the original name of Millcreek. John M. Chidester sold the water rights from Machine Creek to Brigham Young in 1864 so that the cotton factory could be built. It must have been after all of the mills were built along the creek that the name Millcreek came into existence. There were at least 8 mills built along the creek: #1 James Richey’s cotton gin was built in May, 1858. The first cotton gin built in the area. #2 Thomas W. Smith’s corn cracker mill was built in 1857 about halfway between Telegraph Street and the mouth of Millcreek where it enters the Rio Virgin. #3 Theodore Turley had a gristmill a few hundred yards below where the cotton factory is. John D. Lee purchased this mill and later sold it to Henry Barney of Grafton before 1860. #4 John D. Lee’s grist and lumber mill was finished Telegraph Street / Millcreek Mills Markers image. Click for full size. By Bill Kirchner, August 30, 2012 2. Telegraph Street / Millcreek Mills Markers in the fall of 1861 on the east side of the reek near the Turley’s mill site. #5 Snow’s gristmill on the west side of the creek opposite Jon D. Lee’s mill was built in 1866. #6 Hawley’s cane mill near the mouth of Millcreek was built before 1859. This mill was obtained by John D. Lee and his new replacement mill #7 was finished in September 1859. #8 The Cotton Factory was started to be built in 1865 and completely finished in 1870.
There is also a “Pioneer Cotton Mills” historic marker with the following text:
As early as 1851 cotton was raised in northern Utah. In 1855 it was cultivated on a small scale at Santa Clara, nine miles west of here. In 1864 the nearby communities had 140 acres under cultivation, and the product was said “to be equal in every way to that grown in Tennessee.” The first extensive manufacture of cotton cloth was begun in 1865 when a cooperative cotton factory, organized by Brigham Young, was established immediately south of this marker. Machinery was freighted from the Missouri River, more than 1300 miles away. Shortly after the opening of the factory, equipment to manufacture woolen cloth was also installed, the wool being provided from large flocks of sheep, also operated on a church cooperative basis. The cotton industry flourished surprisingly for a time, partly due to Civil War interference with planters in the south. Part of the raw product went to California and some was freighted to New York where it sold as high as $1.90 a pound. After the cotton industry revived in the south, following the close of the war, the industry in Utah was abandoned.
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HARRISBURG RESIDENTS
Named here are the Heads of the Families who settled in Harrisburg between 1859 and 1928:
1859
Moses Harris
1860
James Lewis Hosea Stout
1862
William Leany Dr. Priddy Meeks John Brimhall
Orson Adams Elijah K. Fuller Samuel Hamilton
William Robb Rufus Allen Allen J. Stout
Mosiah L. Hancock Alfred J. Randall
1863
Willard G. McMullen Samuel Gould John Newton
David Ellsworth John McCleve Allen Taylor
William Taylor
1865
Henry E. Harrington Milton Daily Wilson Daily
Thomas Adair Willbur Earl William Stirling
AL Carpenter Jerome Asa
Robert Richardson Frank Owens
See other historic markers in the series on this page for SUP Markers.