In Tacoma’s Commencement Bay, the names applied to industrial waterways over the past 130 years or so reveal a dizzying number of layers of Northwest history.
, because that was where they “commenced” their survey – the area around the mouth of the Puyallup River looked very similar. However, instead of creating two dedicated river channels built around an artificial island, the Puyallup estuary ultimately became home to a series of industrial waterways – mapped out, dredged, and named beginning around 1890.
Though some have only been changed recently, the resulting mix of waterway names dating back to Tacoma’s earliest days reflects eclectic layers of history and historic influences.Foss Maritime founder Thea Foss. But that name only dates to the Foss centennial and the state centennial which were both in 1989. When it was first established in the 1890s in what was likely once the main channel of the Puyallup River, it was called, simply, City Waterway.“The Middle Waterway is half-way between the City Waterway and the Puyallup Waterway in the Tacoma Tideflats.
A search through newspaper archives indicates that creation of the Middle Waterway was first proposed in May 1901.St. Paul Waterway is named for the Saint Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company, which was incorporated in the late 1880s and built a mill on “The Boot” – as a patch of dryland in the Tacoma tideflats was known . The mill was sold to St. Regis Paper Company around 1930 and then to Simpson Lumber around 1950 – and, more recently, to a company called WestRock, but the St.
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