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HistoryLink Essay: Seattle Neighborhoods: Broadview & Bitter Lake -- Thumbnail History (1621 words) |
 | The Broadview/Bitter Lake area was a timbered land of Douglas fir and cedar, often eight feet in diameter, inhabited by Native American lake people who gathered and fished from abundant resources. |
| SeattleÂ’s population exploded in the 1880s and early 1890s and the forest-carpeted lands north of Lake Union opened up to development, especially near trolley lines, which were usually controlled by real estate speculators. |
| The lake is within walking distance of the new library and retirement homes and is backyard to the elementary school and community center. |
| Bitter Lake (Seattle) at AllExperts (195 words) |
| Bitter Lake is a small lake and neighborhood in north central Seattle, Washington (USA). |
| The Seattle-to-Everett Interurban streetcar reached the lake in 1906, and the Bitter Lake neighborhood was annexed by Seattle in 1954. |
| The lake itself is situated between Greenwood Avenue N. to the west, Linden Avenue N. to the east, N. 137th Street to the north, and N. 130th Street to the south (). |
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