Seven hills of Seattle

The seven hills of Seattle is an unofficial designation of several hills that historians claim the city of Seattle was built on and around. The name comes from the similar tradition in several other cities, most notably Rome and Constantinople.

There is no firm consensus on precisely which hills constitute the seven hills of Seattle. Walt Crowley considered the following the "main candidates":

• First Hill
• Yesler Hill – presently in the First Hill neighborhood
• Second Hill or Renton Hill – both names have passed out of common usage; it referred to an area roughly centered at 18th Avenue and Madison Street, and in present-day parlance would be considered to constitute upper Capitol Hill and upper First Hill
• Denny Hill – regraded, now called the Denny Regrade
• Capitol Hill
• Queen Anne Hill
• Beacon Hill

Other hills sometimes said to be among the "seven hills of Seattle" include:

• West Seattle – originally incorporated as a separate city, and not annexed by Seattle until 1907
• Magnolia
• Crown Hill – not annexed until 1954

References

• Walt Crowley, Seattle's Seven Hills HistoryLink, January 14, 2003. Accessed January 26, 2008.

See also

• History of Seattle before 1900
• Seven hills of Rome - probably the origin of the romanticism of 'seven hills'.
• List of San Francisco, California Hills - another city said to have been founded on seven hills.
• Seven Mountains, Bergen