{{short description|Canal in Seattle, Washington}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} [[File:Fremont cut map.png|thumb|upright=1.35|The Ship Canal with Fremont Cut shaded in dark blue]] [[File:Fremont bridge.jpg|thumb|The Fremont Bridge at the 1917 opening of the Ship Canal]] thumb|Fremont Cut looking west-northwest towards the Olympic Peninsula The '''Fremont Cut''' is a canal in Seattle, Washington, United States, that connects Lake Union to the east with Salmon Bay to the west. It is part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal linking Lake Washington to Puget Sound, and is {{convert|5800|ft|m}} long and {{convert|270|ft|m}} wide. The center channel is {{convert|100|ft|m}} wide and {{convert|30|ft|m}} deep.
==History== Work first began on the cut when the Lake Washington Improvement Company contracted in 1883 to dig out Ross Creek which at that time was Lake Union’s fresh water outlet to Salmon Bay. The total amount of material excavated was about 2 million cubic yards. Up until the Chittenden Locks were completed in 1917, the Fremont Cut’s eastern end near the Fremont Bridge was separated from Lake Union by a low wooden dam, a small wooden lock, and a spillway.<ref>{{Citation |url= http://psmhsinsidepassage.blogspot.com/2016/04/making-cut-locks-by-numbers.html |website= Inside Passage: The Blog of the Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society |date= April 25, 2016 |title=Making the Cut: The Locks by the Numbers |first=Joe |last=Baar }}</ref>
==Environs== Named for the neighborhood lying just to the north, the cut is spanned by the Fremont Bridge, a bascule drawbridge that connects Fremont with Queen Anne to the south via Fremont Avenue North. South of the cut is the 456’ high Queen Anne Hill while to the east is the Aurora Bridge (officially the George Washington Memorial Bridge), a cantilever truss, suspension structure that carries old US 99 (Pacific Highway) over the west end of Lake Union. Various high tech companies are located just north of the cut in the Fremont area, notably Adobe Systems, Tableau Software and Google.
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{{Fremont, Seattle}} {{Lake Washington Ship Canal}}
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