This week’s Throwback Thursday takes a look at the old industrial area of Ballard along the Ship Canal and Shilshole.
Black and white photo of Shilshole and Vernon Street in 1904. According to the Ballard Historical Society, the Stimson Mill office is on the left, but it may have also been Stimson Paymaster Office and/or Salmon Bay Feed Company. The current address is 2116 NW Vernon Place.
Photo from 1913, of Shilshole Bay at the end of the Ship Canal.
Photo from 1913 of the canal construction on the Ballard Locks from Shilshole Bay end.
Ballard Boat Works in 1905, located just west of where Government Locks are today. It was started in 1905 and moved in 1917 to its present location at Shilshole Avenue and NW 51st Street.
Photo from 1895 of the “mill district,” from approximately 15th to 17th and Shilshole Ave. Mills are pictured in the background, and a triangle block with houses and fenced yard in foreground.
All photos courtesy of the Ballard Historical Society
