10 centurion businesses that helped shape Seattle

During the past 25 years, Seattle has become one of the country's fastest-growing cities, in large part due to booming homegrown industry giants including Amazon, Microsoft and Starbucks When Sam Silverman opened a tiny jewelry store in Seattle in 1912, little did he know that it would grow into a business with more than 70 stores in 11 states nationwide In the 1890s Issaquah Lumber was part of the Monohan Mill which operated on Lake Sammamish.

Continuing to run as a mill, Issaquah Lumber became Issaquah Cedar & Lumber in the 1950s and moved to its current location in Issaquah Issaquah Cedar & Lumber has an active mill on site and stocks specialty materials for both retail and wholesale customers' interior and exterior building projects You'll still find the Perkins family manning the store on Broadway between Pike and Union, a historic location of a small business that's a true reflection of Seattle's history.

Founded by three Seattle women, Three Girls Bakery has been a Pike Place Market institution since 1912. . Source