From the stop at "Ballard Junction," (as the terminus was called) passengers could walk across the wagon bridge and continue the journey to Seattle. The railroad to Seattle ended at Salmon Bay because the railroad company was unwilling to build a trestle to cross the bay. Ballard lost the coin-toss and ended up with the "undesirable" 160-acre (0.65 km 2) tract. Then, in 1887 the partnership was dissolved and the assets divided, but no one wanted the land in Salmon Bay so the partners flipped a coin. ĭuring the late 19th century Captain William Rankin Ballard, owner of land adjoining Judge Burke's holdings, joined the partnership with Burke, Leary, and Gilman. 67th, are operated as the Ballard Terminal Railroad. 40th Street to the BNSF Railway mainline at N.W. Today three miles (5 km) of this line, running along Salmon Bay from N.W. The partners also built a spur from Fremont's main line of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway. They anticipated the building of the Great Northern Railway along the Salmon Bay coastline on the way to Interbay and central Seattle. Gilman, formed the West Coast Improvement Company to develop Burke's land holdings in the area. Thirty-six years later, Judge Burke, together with John Leary and railroader Daniel H. Utter hoped to see a rapid expansion of population, but when this did not happen, he sold the land to Thomas Burke, a judge. The first European resident in the area, homesteader Ira Wilcox Utter, moved to his claim in 1853. The last member of the Shilshole native group, named HWelch’teed or "Salmon Bay Charlie", was forcibly removed to allow construction of the Hiram Chittendon Locks in 1915 or 1916. One source suggests that the decline of the Shilshole dwelling Salish might have been due to raids from other groups from farther north (Queen Charlotte's Island) and that these raids also alarmed non-Native settlers. The remaining dozen or fewer families were evicted by non-Coast Salish settlers in the mid-19th century. According to oral traditions from before European contact, the group living around Shilshole may have been in decline due to a "great catastrophe". The Shilshole area was home to a settlement that has since been excavated its artifacts are in the collection of the Burke Museum in the University District. There were plentiful salmon and clams in the region.
The area now called Ballard was settled by the Dxʷdəwʔabš (Duwamish) Tribe after the last glacial period. This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards, as section. At the federal level, Ballard is part of the United States House of Representatives's 7th congressional district. Ballard is part of the Seattle Public Schools and the Washington State Legislature's 36th legislative district. īallard is located entirely within Seattle City Council District 6, which also includes the neighborhoods of Crown Hill, Green Lake and Phinney Ridge, as well as most of Fremont, North Beach/ Blue Ridge, and Wallingford. The Ballard Bridge carries 15th Avenue over Salmon Bay to the Interbay neighborhood, and the Salmon Bay Bridge carries the BNSF Railway tracks across the bay, west of the Ballard Locks. The neighborhood's main thoroughfares running north–south are Seaview, 32nd, 24th, Leary, 15th, and 8th Avenues N.W. Landmarks of Ballard include the Ballard Locks, the National Nordic Museum, the Shilshole Bay Marina, and Golden Gardens Park. Other neighborhood or district boundaries existed in the past these are recognized by various Seattle City Departments, commercial or social organizations, and other Federal, State, and local government agencies. 85th Street), to the east by Greenwood, Phinney Ridge and Fremont (along 3rd Avenue N.W.), to the south by the Lake Washington Ship Canal, and to the west by Puget Sound's Shilshole Bay. Formerly an independent city, the City of Seattle's official boundaries define it as bounded to the north by Crown Hill (N.W.
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