The three Seattles — and who holds the pen

The three Seattles — and who holds the pen

Seattle has always been a city divided, by maps, by power, by who gets to call this place home. From its founding, rival visions split the land: Maynard, Denny and Boren, three settler founders whose names you will see on streets in Seattle — drew competing grids and clashed over who would determine the city’s future. That resulted in streets that lurch and dead-end, a physical reminder of unresolved power struggles. Those early battles weren’t …