Seven hills of Seattle

The seven hills of Seattle is a term used unofficially in reference to several hills which historians claim the city of Seattle was built on and around.[1][2][3] The term is based on a similar tradition in several other cities, most notably Rome and Constantinople.

The seven hills

There is no firm consensus on precisely which hills constitute the seven hills of Seattle. Walt Crowley considered the main candidates to be:[3]

The hills above were associated with seven boulders in the City of Seattle's Seven Hills Park.[7][8]

Other hills sometimes said to be among the "seven hills of Seattle" include:

Geology

Seattle's topography is due largely to Pleistocene ice age glaciation. Nearly all of the city's seven hills are characterized as drumlins (Beacon Hill, First Hill, Capitol Hill, Queen Anne Hill, Mount Baker) or drift uplands (Magnolia, West Seattle).[11][12]

Seattle-Bergen sister city "seven hills" walk

The Seattle-Bergen Sister City Association (Sister Cities International) sponsors an annual "Seven Hills of Seattle" walk.[13][14][15] Seattle's sister city, Bergen, Norway, is known as the City of Seven Mountains.[16]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ City of Seattle 2011 press release: "Seating walls on the plaza highlight the seven hills of Seattle and orient the viewer to the highest points of our city."
  2. ↑ Nelson 1990: "We can only imagine how Chief Sealth would view his Duwamish homeland today-the seven hills of Seattle bulldozed to fill tidelands where his people once gathered food..."
  3. 1 2 Crowley 2003
  4. ↑ Sophie Frye Bass, When Seattle Was a Village, 1947
  5. ↑ also noted as one of the seven hills by Williams 1989
  6. ↑ also noted as one of the seven hills by Johnston 2008
  7. ↑ Seattle Parks and Recreation, 2010
  8. ↑ Seattle Times 2009
  9. 1 2 Wilma 2005
  10. ↑ Ferriss 1953: "the 'floating bridge' leading over Lake Washington to the unique city portal that pierces Mt. Baker, one of the 'seven hills of Seattle'"
  11. ↑ Zentner 2015
  12. ↑ Troost & Booth 2008, p. 5.
  13. ↑ Seattle Times 2011
  14. ↑ Norwegian American Weekly 2009
  15. ↑ Seattle Parks and Recreation 2013
  16. ↑ Seattle International Sister City: Bergen, Norway, Seattle Office of Intergovernmental Relations, retrieved 2013-10-24

References

  • Hugh Ferriss (1953). Power in Buildings: An Artist's View of Contemporary Architecture. Columbia University Press. p. 22. LCCN 53012306.
  • Walt Crowley (January 14, 2003), Seattle's Seven Hills, HistoryLink
  • Seven Hills Park, Seattle Parks and Recreation, retrieved 2013-10-24
  • Seven Hills Park (formerly Capitol Hill Park) development Pro Parks project information: Boulders plan (PDF), Seattle Parks and Recreation/Mithun, Inc, August 23, 2010, retrieved 2013-10-24
  • Greg Johnston (November 13, 2008), "FANTASTIC FOUR: STRING TOGETHER THESE EMERALD PARKS FOR A GEM OF AN URBAN HIKE", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p. 10 – via ProQuest
  • Williams, Hill (October 2, 1989), "SCIENTISTS FIND OLD DENNY HILL - AT BOTTOM OF PUGET SOUND", The Seattle Times, p. C1 – via ProQuest
  • David Wilma (October 12, 2005), Seattle annexes the area north of N 85th Street to N 145th Street on January 4, 1954, HistoryLink
  • "Seven Hills? One Capitol Hill park gets its 'official' name", The Seattle Times (Local), retrieved 2013-10-24
  • "2011 Summer Guide: May events — Seven Hills Walk", The Seattle Times, May 18, 2011 |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  • Join Sound Steps/Seattle-Bergen Sister City Association for the 9th Annual Seven Hills Walk, Seattle Parks and Recreation, May 2, 2012, retrieved 2013-10-24
  • "Seven Hills of Seattle walk with the Seattle-Bergen Sister City Association", Norwegian American Weekly, June 2, 2009, retrieved 2013-10-24
  • "Community celebrates Myrtle Reservoir Park", Press release, City of Seattle, April 25, 2011  – via HighBeam (subscription required)
  • Nelson, Richard (July 15, 1990), "Rite of Northwest Passage THE GOOD RAIN Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest by Timothy Egan (book review)", The Los Angeles Times – via ProQuest
  • Geology of Seattle and the Puget Sound on YouTube, narrated by Nick Zentner (Central Washington University Department of Geological Sciences). Uploaded March 2, 2015 by Hugefloods.com (Nick Zentner and Tom Foster: Discover the Ice Age Floods).
  • Troost, Kathy Goetz; Booth, Derek B. (2008), Geography of Seattle and the Seattle area, Washington, Geological Society of America, doi:10.1130/2008.4020(01)
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