George F Cotterill (18th November 1865 – 13th October 1958) selected Seattle achievements:
- surveyor
- laid city’s first sewers
- developed city’s main water supply from the Cedar River
- filled tideflats to create SoDo
- Washington State Senator
- preserved shoreline for UW and city parks
- drafted a women’s suffrage amendment to the state constitution, which passed 1910
- helped write an early workman’s compensation law
- Mayor of Seattle
- chief engineer of state highways
- port commissioner
- laid 25 miles of bicycle trails, one of which later became E Interlaken Blvd where EPACC will meet at 8am on Friday 11th March 2016. Here’s a map. There isn’t really anywhere to sit so maybe bring a tarp?