Salmon Bay

Before the construction of the Ship Canal, Salmon Bay was entirely salt water and subject to the tides.

[2] Along the north side of the bay was a village (also called šilšul) of the Shilshole, which by the late 19th century, had two longhouses (each 60'x120') and a larger potlatch house.

[3] The last remaining resident of the village was Salmon Bay Charlie[4] until he was evicted and removed to the Port Madison Reservation.

[citation needed] Beginning in 1916, the level of the bay was raised by 20 feet (6.1 m) as the Ballard Locks formed a dam.

[5] West of the locks, it is spanned by the Salmon Bay Bridge that carries the BNSF Railway railroad tracks between Ballard and Magnolia.

View of Salmon Bay, with Puget Sound in the background. The bridge in the foreground is the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks ; the bridge closer to Puget Sound is the Salmon Bay Bridge .
In 1919 the Fishermen's Terminal was known as the "Salmon Bay Terminal"
A black and white photo of an old plank house belonging to Salmon Bay Charlie along the edge of the bay, with a Shilshole canoe moored outside
The house of Salmon Bay Charlie, the last resident of the Shilshole village ( c. 1905 )