Robert Ketcherside, Author at Wallyhood

Robert Ketcherside

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Renaming streets of Seattle’s Fremont to the U District

Robert Ketcherside July 21, 2019 8 Comments

(Ed note: This history originally appeared on Rob’s local history blog, Ba-kground. If you’re interested in Seattle history or old clocks, it’s worth a read, as is his book, Lost Seattle. Rob graciously allowed us to repost this here.)

Below is a lookup table for name changes from the 1870s to the present day in neighborhoods north of Lake Union in Seattle: Brooklyn (west U District); Latona; Wallingford (originally Edgewater); Fremont; part of north Queen Anne; and part of eastern Ballard.

The data north of Lake Union

Here is a link to the data as a csv, shared with …

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