Located at the foot of Dearborn St.
<p>Caption on image: Myers salmon cannery, Seattle, 1895<br>
On verso of image: Myers Cannery, Seattle, 1895,<br>
credit: U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Andrews, Fish and Ships, p. 61<br></p>
<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Canneries--Washington (State)--Seattle; Salmon canning; industry--Washington (State)--Seattle; Myers Packing; Company</li></ul><hr>
According to the 1893 Sanborn map (<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sanborn_Fire_Insurance_Map_from_Seattle,_King_County,_Washington._LOC_sanborn09315_003-33.jpg" title="File:Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Seattle, King County, Washington. LOC sanborn09315 003-33.jpg">File:Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Seattle, King County, Washington. LOC sanborn09315 003-33.jpg</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sanborn_Fire_Insurance_Map_from_Seattle,_King_County,_Washington._LOC_sanborn09315_003-34.jpg" title="File:Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Seattle, King County, Washington. LOC sanborn09315 003-34.jpg">File:Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Seattle, King County, Washington. LOC sanborn09315 003-34.jpg</a> in particular), before the Industrial District was filled, Myers Packing Co. was at the end of a long wharf narrow wharf at the foot of Weller, contiguous with Stetson &amp; Post. Just north of Weller Street was an east-west tramway, and north of that a block west of Railroad Avenue was Rock Plaster Co.'s Mill. West of that, this pier angled southwest, widened to accommodate the Myers Packing Co., and continued to the southwest.
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