Salmon Cannery Takes Root on the Duwamish
A local entrepreneur transforms an old homestead opposite Seattle into a new industrial venture.
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Our enterprising fellow citizen, Mr. Coppin, after building a town on the hill, has purchased the cannery of Jackson Myers, late of Mukilteo, and removed the fixtures to the south side of Duwamish Bay, at the old Brown place, opposite Seattle, where he purposes to carry on the business of canning salmon. The place is well adapted to the business, and Coppin is the man to command success in whatever he undertakes.
“The place is well adapted to the business, and Coppin is the man to command success in whatever he undertakes.”
This 1880 report captures the beginning of the industrial transformation of the Duwamish River delta. While Coppin's cannery was an early harbinger of the heavy industrialization that would define the area, today the river is a focus of intensive environmental cleanup and ecological restoration efforts.
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