SEATTLE - 3D Timelapse

Watch Seattle grow from an old-growth forest and Duwamish longhouses to a city of 785,000 – 325 years in 8 minutes, as a 3D timelapse (no AI imagery). From the 1700 Cascadia earthquake and Duwamish cedar longhouses to the Denny Party at Alki and Yesler's sawmill; the Great Seattle Fire of 1889, the Klondike Gold Rush, Denny Hill washed into the bay, Pike Place Market, tideflats filled into Harbor Island, Smith Tower and the Ballard Locks; Boeing, the 1962 World's Fair and Space Needle, the Kingdome, Columbia Center and Amazon's South Lake Union – on the real terrain, with Mount Rainier on the horizon. 📚 HISTORICAL SOURCES HistoryLink.org essays 303, 1660, 3428, 3631, 5115, 5208, 686, 7072, 8748, 10182, 21090, 21204, 22995, 23080, 23494 (founding, settlers, Battle of Seattle, Great Fire, waterfront, Harbor Island, Denny Regrade, Lake Washington lowered, Hoovervilles, Japanese American incarceration) – historylink.org HistoryLink Tours – dzidzəlal̓ič (Little Crossing-Over Place); Lake Union Park – historylink.tours David B. Williams – Seattle Walks, University of Washington Press (Manifold edition) – uw.manifoldapp.org Seattle Municipal Archives – Interbay and Smith Cove fill (Sherwood files) Ballard Historical Society – American Foursquare; Fort Wiki – Seattle Blockhouse Waterfront Seattle – Overlook Walk (opened 4 Oct 2025) – waterfrontseattle.org The Seattle Times – "Lake Union: reflection of a city" (2001); NOAA/GPO Lake Union report (1986) Population: U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts 1860–2020 and 2025 estimate; 1853, 1885, 1889, 1897, 1907, 1945 are estimates; Native population before 1850: estimates from village counts (Gibbs 1854 census: 351) Wikipedia articles: Seattle; Timeline of Seattle; Duwamish people; History of the Duwamish people; Duwamish River; Regrading in Seattle; Lake Washington Ship Canal; Interbay, Seattle; Smith Cove (Seattle); List of tallest buildings in Seattle; Space Needle; Seattle box