Editing Skid row (section)

===Seattle===
[[Image:Original Skid Road Seattle - 1874 photo.jpg|thumb|right|Mill Street, now [[Yesler Way]], was the original "Skid Road" in [[Seattle, Washington]].{{Efn|Top: View looking west to Yesler's Mill at the end of the street (see smokestack) and nearby [[cookhouse]]; the tall pole in the road on the right is where the Pioneer Square pergola stands today, (1874)

Bottom: Yesler's Mill, stores, and taverns on Skid Road}}]]The name "Skid Road" was in use in Seattle by the 1850s when the city's historic [[Pioneer Square, Seattle, Washington|Pioneer Square]] neighborhood began to expand from its commercial core.<ref name=SPS>{{cite book|last=Keniston-Longrie|first=Joy|title=Seattle's Pioneer Square|year=2009|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|location=Chicago, San Francisco, & Charleston, SC|isbn=978-0-7385-7144-7|pages=128}}</ref> The district centered near the end of what is now [[Yesler Way]], the original "Skid Road" named after the freshly‑cut logs that were skidded downhill toward [[Henry Yesler]]'s mill.<ref name="Morrison1987">{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-03-24-mn-299-story.html |title=Original 'Skid Road': Homeless Add a Sad Note to Gentrified Seattle Area |work=Los Angeles Times |date=1987-03-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151025110214/http://articles.latimes.com/1987-03-24/news/mn-299_1_skid-row |archive-date=2015-10-25 |url-status=live |last=Morrison |first={{not a typo|Patt}} |issn=0458-3035 |quote=Yesler Way—the nation's original 'Skid Row' ... Skid Road was christened here in the 1850s, when logs were 'skidded' by horses, mules or oxen down the steep, timber‑lined path to Henry Yesler's thriving sawmill on Elliott Bay. }}</ref>

Henry Yesler acquired land from [[Doc Maynard]] at a small point of land at what is today near the intersection of 1st Avenue and [[Yesler Way]]. He also acquired a swath of land {{convert|450|ft}} wide, from his property up [[First Hill]] to a box of land about {{convert|10|acre}} in size, full of timber, spanning what is today 20th to 30th avenues. Logs would be moved down the skid road of Yesler Way to his mill.<ref name="ws">{{cite book |last1=Speidel |first1=William |title=Sons of the Profits |date=1967 |publisher=Nettle Creek Publishing Company |location=Seattle |pages=62,223–224}}</ref><ref name=SPS /> In the words of [[Murray Morgan]], "This district south of Yesler Way, this land below the Deadline, has helped fix the word on the American language. The Skid Road: the place of dead dreams."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Morgan |first1=Murray |title=Skid Road |date=2018 |publisher=University of Washington Press |isbn=9780295743493 |pages=8–9, 30–31}}</ref> His steam-powered logging mill was built in 1853<ref name=SPS /> on the point of land that looked south towards a small island (Denny's Island, part of his land purchase from Doc Maynard) that has since been expanded with [[infill]] and is the heart of today's Pioneer Square. The mill operated seven days a week, 24 hours per day, on the waterfront.<ref name=SPS />

The Skid Road became the demarcation line between the affluent members of Seattle and the mill workers and more rowdy portion of the population.<ref>William C. Speidel, "Sons of the Profits, The Seattle Story 1851 to 1901"</ref> The road became Mill Street, and eventually Yesler Way, but the nickname "Skid Road" was permanently associated with the district at the street's end.<ref name=SPS /> The street's end near the mill attracted [[cookhouse]]s and inexpensive hotels for itinerant workers, along with several establishments that served beer and liquor.<ref name=SPS />