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After West Seattle, the city built up around the area where the stadiums are. Capitol Hill was called that because they were going to put the Washington state c

After West Seattle, the city built up around the area where the stadiums are. Capitol Hill was called that because they were going to put the Washington state capitol there, but decided not to because it was too far from "Seattle". That should give some idea of how small the city was. There were single digit thousand white people in the entire area at that time. The width of the isthmus was not a problem at that time. The reason the city picked that spot is because it had the best deep water access on Elliott Bay.

hinkley 4y ago
If you've taken the Seattle Underground Tour, you have a notion of how much of Seattle was set on tidal mudflats. People were arguing against building an incline from the docks up to a bluff that started around 6th, which is about 8 blocks today, and I can't recall if when the sea wall was built if they went straight up or projected out into the Sound a bit farther.