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Alki Point in West Seattle is often called “the birthplace of Seattle,” but many argue that the nickname should belong to Georgetown instead. A week before the first settlers arrived at Alki Point, Luther Collins and several other people\u00a0claimed land<\/a> in what is now Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood. The year was 1851, and Georgetown\u00a0had taken its\u00a0first step to\u00a0becoming the bustling cultural hub it is today.<\/p>\n

Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad, 1877<\/b><\/h2>\n

\"walla<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo: <\/span>Seattle Public Library<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

On May 1st, 1874, 300 Seattle residents started building<\/a> the Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad at Steele’s Landing in Georgetown.<\/span>\u00a0It wasn’t long before Georgetown became a hotspot for revelers from Seattle \u2014 by 1908, it\u00a0was known as “the cesspool of Seattle” and had\u00a0as many as 24 saloons operating 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n

Maple School, ca.\u00a01907<\/b><\/h2>\n

\"maple<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo: Seattle Public Library<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

In 1865, a school was built in\u00a0Georgetown<\/a> on land donated by Samuel Maple, one of the area’s original settlers. The school was torn down and rebuilt multiple times.<\/p>\n

Laying pipe on County Poor Farm, 1933<\/b><\/h2>\n

\"county<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo: <\/span>Seattle Municipal Archives\/Flickr<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The Roman Catholic Sisters of Charity of the House of Providence opened the County Poor Farm<\/a> on May 3rd, 1877. It was the first hospital in the area. After 14 months, the sisters moved to a different hospital in Seattle, and the County Poor Farm closed. It\u00a0reopened in 1890, and in 1893 a new three-story hospital was completed in the area. The County Poor Farm continued to operate just upstream as a shelter for the destitute.<\/span><\/p>\n

Georgetown Public Library in the Old Georgetown City Hall building, 1940 <\/b><\/h2>\n

\"public<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo: Seattle Public Library<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

On March 29th, 1910, Georgetown voters chose to be annexed<\/a> by Seattle. The vote came just nine months after the completion of the new Georgetown City Hall; it\u00a0later became a police station, a fire station and a public library.<\/p>\n

Boeing Plant 2, 1953<\/b><\/h2>\n

\"boeing<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo: Seattle Public Library<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

In 1935, the Boeing Company opened Boeing Plant 2<\/a> on the west side of Boeing Field. By the end of World War II, 6,981 B-17 bombers<\/a> had been produced there. At peak production, the facility operated three shifts seven days a week, and employed thousands of workers.<\/p>\n

Malt, Rainier and Bottling Works, 1966<\/b><\/h2>\n

\"bottling<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo: <\/span>Seattle Public Library<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

In 1883, John Clausen and Edward Sweeny built a brewery<\/a> that 10 years later became the Seattle Brewing and Malting Company. The complex eventually covered five acres and became the world’s sixth-largest brewery. Germans and Belgians made up much of the workforce and surrounding\u00a0community. Much further into the future, the\u00a0brewery was bought and transformed into\u00a0Rainier Beer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Wooden railroad overpass, 1966<\/b><\/h2>\n

\"railroad<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo: Seattle Public Library<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Industrial development dominated Georgetown\u00a0after World War II. Its\u00a0library closed in 1948, and its\u00a0movie theater closed in 1952. Then, when\u00a0Interstate 5 was completed in 1962, most business activity in the area shut down entirely<\/a>. Georgetown School, which opened in 1898, experienced a 91 percent turnover rate\u00a0in a single school year and closed in 1970.<\/p>\n

The Hamilton building, 1966<\/b><\/h2>\n

\"the<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo: <\/span>Seattle Public Library<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Between 1900 and 1910, Georgetown’s population increased from 1,913 to about 7,000. As industry and businesses grew, immigrant families settled near its factories and other places of employment. The Hamilton building<\/a>\u00a0was one of many structures associated with Georgetown’s commercial boom.<\/p>\n

Hat ‘n’\u00a0Boots, 2002<\/b><\/h2>\n

\"hat<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo: <\/span>Seattle Municipal Archives\/Flickr<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The Hat \u2018n\u2019 Boots gas station\u00a0was built in 1955 and was the main attraction at\u00a0Georgetown’s\u00a0Buford Seals Frontier Village Shopping Complex. Legend has it that Elvis pumped gas<\/a> for his Cadillac at the Hat \u2018n\u2019 Boots while filming “It <\/span>Happened at the World\u2019s Fair” in Seattle<\/span> in 1963.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rainier Brewery, 2007<\/b><\/h2>\n

\"rainier<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo:\u00a0Joe Mabel<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

After Interstate 5 was completed, motorists could see little of Georgetown except for the 12-foot-tall red “R” on\u00a0Rainier Brewery. The “R” was replaced in 2000 by the great green “T” of Tully’s Coffee, and the brewery is now a coffee roasting plant. Georgetown itself has experienced a revival since the 1990s and today “has mastered bohemian blue-collar chic<\/a>.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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