Georgetown

This guide to Georgetown in Seattle follows the Duwamish River's original course, a wide looping bend that early settlers built along starting in 1851 and that shaped the neighborhood for sixty years. It traces the floods that struck the valley, including a record 1892 flood and an even worse one in 1906, and the city engineers who responded starting in 1913 with a drastic rerouting project. Along the way it considers what happened to the salmon runs that depended on those slow bends. Listen for how much of the neighborhood's street grid still quietly remembers a river that no longer runs there.