Beacon Ridge history

1866) platted Beacon Hill and gave his name to the Plummer's Addition to Seattle, but the area remained largely undeveloped for the next 40 years.

Downtown Seattle from Beacon Hill, 1881

In 1892, the city opened an isolation hospital, called a "pesthouse," on Beacon Hill for smallpox patients.

In 1901, Semple began his canal.

Moving houses on Beacon Hill during regrade, Seattle, 1906

In 1909, the city established a stockade to house city jail inmates serving short sentences.

One measure of the area's growth was the completion of Cleveland High School in 1927.

Boeing field was completed in the bottomland west of Beacon Hill in 1928.

In 1933, the United States Public Health Service opened the United States Marine Hospital at the north end of the hill, where M. Harwood Young had built his home.

Weekend celebration at United States Army Recreation Center, Jefferson Park, Beacon Hill, Seattle, 1943

In 1953, after the end of the Korean War, it was transferred to the Seattle Housing Authority at no cost and converted to low-income housing.

Interstate-5 was completed between Seattle and Tacoma in 1967, cutting along the west slope of the hill.

In 1972, Chicano activists occupied the empty building to protest the defunding of an adult basic education program at South Seattle Community College.

The first event took place last year in 2008, prompted by its 225 anniversary.