The seven hills of Seattle is an unofficial designation of several hills that historians claim the city of Seattle was built on and around. The name comes from the similar tradition in several other cities, most notably Rome and Constantinople.
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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:
- First Hill, nicknamed "Pill Hill" because of the many hospitals and clinics located there
- Yesler Hill - presently Yesler Terrace
- Cherry Hill -- located to the east of First Hill (previously called Second Hill or Renton Hill - both these names have passed out of common usage)
- Denny Hill - regraded, now called the Denny Regrade
- Capitol Hill
- Queen Anne Hill
- Beacon Hill
The hills above were associated with seven boulders in the City of Seattle's Seven Hills Park.
Other hills sometimes said to be among the "seven hills of Seattle" include:
- West Seattle - originally incorporated as a separate city, and not annexed by Seattle until 1907
- Magnolia
- Crown Hill - not annexed until 1954
- Mount Baker
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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).
Seattle-Bergen sister city "seven hills" walk
The Seattle-Bergen Sister City Association (Sister Cities International) sponsors an annual "Seven Hills of Seattle" walk. Seattle's sister city, Bergen, Norway, is known as the City of Seven Mountains.
See also
- List of cities claimed to be built on seven hills
- Seven hills of Rome - probably the origin of the romanticism of 'seven hills'.
- History of Seattle before 1900
Notes
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
- 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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