Historic Seattle: Viaduct work will reveal long forgotten neighborhood

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The Alaskan Way Viaduct and the First Avenue South onramp tower over a vacant lot south of King Street in downtown Seattle on Tuesday. The Washington State Department of Transportation plans to conduct an archaeological dig on the land south of King Street and north of Royal Brougham Way that used to be home to dozens of warehouses, hotels, saloons and boarding houses. The previous neighborhood was buried by fill dirt when it became a rail yard.