18 May Union Station 100-Year Anniversary Celebration

Tour sign up is available during the event in the entrance of the Great Hall at Union Station. Each tour can accommodate 30 people.

2:00 – 3:00 Waterlines: Pioneer Square Walking Tour
Join us for a 45 minute walk along the pre-1850 shoreline of Pioneer Square, now nearly obliterated by 150 years of filing and building. We’ll trace the original sandspit, lagoon, Duwamish longhouse location and freshwater stream. We’ll also locate historic sites now gone and buried, such as Yesler’s Mill, Ballast Island, the Occidental Hotel, or the infamous Lavabed area, and find the highest level of the freshwater lake left by the receding glaciers about 16,000 years ago, before the Juan de Fuca passage opened up to the Pacific.

2:30 – 3:30 Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park: Pioneer Square NationalHistoric District Walking Tour
Join a National Park Ranger for a walking tour of Seattle’s first neighborhood.  See how hills have been leveled, shorelines changed.  Learn how a shipyard became a sports stadium, and how a railroad station became a pizza parlor.  Many changes have happened in Pioneer Square over the last 200 years.  Change has come in many forms; economic booms and busts, fires, earthquakes, immigration, and huge civil engineering projects.  Pioneer Square has gone from Tenderloin to upscale art and high tech in a relatively short time.  Take a walk with a Ranger and learn more.

3:00 – 4:00 Alley Network
The Pioneer Square Alley Tour will take you through what is envisioned as a vibrant pedestrian network for the neighborhood.  Highlights of tour include the Nord Alley where you can learn about the recently-completed Alley Art Project and other activities that have enlivened this alley as an active public space.  The tour will take you on an alley route that will pass through the heart of the neighborhood where you will discover a different way of experiencing the city and also learn about a project that is currently seeking to create more alluring activities throughout the alley network.

3:30 – 4:30 Trail to Treasure
The Trail to Treasure brings to life a collection of stories about historic Pioneer Square. You will get to know people who were born and grew up in the area, and people who traveled from far away to settle here. You’ll also learn stories of the special places and events that helped to shape the history and development of Pioneer Square, the City of Seattle and the greater Puget Sound region.

4:00 – 5:00 Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park: Pioneer Square NationalHistoric District Walking Tour
Join a National Park Ranger for a walking tour of Seattle’s first neighborhood.  See how hills have been leveled, shorelines changed.  Learn how a shipyard became a sports stadium, and how a railroad station became a pizza parlor.  Many changes have happened in Pioneer Square over the last 200 years.  Change has come in many forms; economic booms and busts, fires, earthquakes, immigration, and huge civil engineering projects.  Pioneer Square has gone from Tenderloin to upscale art and high tech in a relatively short time.  Take a walk with a Ranger and learn more.

5:45 – 6:45 Trail to Treasure
The Trail to Treasure brings to life a collection of stories about historic Pioneer Square. You will get to know people who were born and grew up in the area, and people who traveled from far away to settle here. You’ll also learn stories of the special places and events that helped to shape the history and development of Pioneer Square, the City of Seattle and the greater Puget Sound region.

5:45 PM – CUTTING AND SERVING OF CAKE

MUSIC SCHEDULE
2:00 pm                                                Paul Kikuchi
3:00 pm                                                Seattle Youth Symphony
4:00 pm                                                Seattle Youth Symphony String Quartet
5:30 – 7:00 (Outside)                      Cornucopia Community Band