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The Industrial District is the principal industrial area of Seattle, Washington . It is bounded on the west by the Duwamish Waterway and Elliott Bay , beyond which lies Delridge of West Seattle ; on the east by Interstate 5 , beyond which lies Beacon Hill ; on the north by S King and S Dearborn Streets, beyond which lie Pioneer Square and southwest International District of Downtown ; and on the south by the main lines of the BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad , or about S Lucille Street, beyond which is Georgetown . ''' SoDo ''' is the name of the northwest portion of the neighborhood, named for its being '''So'''uth of '''Do'''wntown. SoDo is the location of the former Kingdome , of Safeco Field and Qwest Field , homes of the Seattle Mariners and Seattle Seahawks , respectively.Unreferenced; no source provided. The Industrial District may also be defined by land use, with the primarily residential and open space Delridge district extending west from W Marginal Way SW and south of SW Spokane Street, and with the heavy industrial-zoned lower Duwamish Waterway east of Marginal and north of Spokane as part of the Industrial District.(1) Most of the Industrial District is built on what was once the Mudflat s and lowlands of Elliott Bay and the Duwamish Estuary , dredged, staightened, and filled 1902 and 1907.Phelps (1978), Chapter 15, "Annexation", pp. 216–224, map "to 1921", p. 217; map key table pp.222-3. Much of the area is also built on landfill which is prone to Liquefaction . This makes buildings in this area highly prone to earthquake damage. Principal arterials are 1st and 4th avenues S, the Alaskan Way Viaduct , East Marginal and Airport ways S (north- and southbound); and S Spokane, the Spokane Street Viaduct, West Seattle Bridge , and S Royal Brougham Way (east- and westbound). Minor arterials are 6th Avenue S, S Holgate and S Lander streets, and S Industrial Way. HISTORY What is now Seattle has been inhabited since the end of the last Glacial Period (c. 8,000 B.C.E.—10,000 years ago). For example, the villages of ''tohl-AHL-too'' (" Herring house") and later ''hah-AH-poos'' ("where there are Horse Clam s") at the then-mouth of the Duwamish River in what is now the Industrial District, had been inhabited since the 6th entury C.E.Dailey (map with village 33, referencing his footnotes 2, 9, and 10) The ''Dkhw’Duw’Absh'' and ''Xacuabš''(1) ( IPA Pronunciation : ). (2) ''Dkhw’Duw’Absh'' per --> ("People of the Inside" and "People of the Large Lake", now the Duwamish Tribe ) of the Lushootseed (Whulshootseed, Skagit-Nisqually) Coast Salish nations inhabited at least 17 villages in the mid-1850s,After historical epidemiology 62% losses due to introduced diseases. living in some 93 permanent Longhouses (khwaac'ál'al) along Elliott Bay , Salmon Bay , Portage Bay , Lake Washington , Lake Sammamish , and the Duwamish , Black , and Cedar rivers. }}} BIBLIOGRAPHY
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