But some 15 years after the promoter’s pitch, only the Factoria School had been built and the proposed industrial town of Factoria never got off the ground. Was promoted as an industrial center with coal smoke "belching from hundreds of smokestacks." Promoters expected at least 20 plants, in addition to the existing Factoria Stove and Range Co., to locate there. The project was now called Factoria, a name that would hopefully attract major industries, which it never did. By 1911, development of the community was at a standstill and the company, now run by a Sarah Kendall with Skeel as secretary, filed a new plat featuring more blocks and public space. A stove factory was constructed at the town-site but never manufactured a single stove. The new community was to be named Mercer. In 1908 Skeel formed the Mercer Land Company and platted several blocks adjoining the railroad tracks. Skeel on what is now the interchange of Interstate 405 and I-90. In the early 1900s a large industrial center was envisioned by a group of Seattle investors led by E. In the late 1890s, the Northern Pacific Railway laid tracks through the largely uninhabited area along the shores of Lake Washington near Mercer Island. "During the 1890s, loggers cut large stands of timber on land now known as Woodridge Hill, Richards Valley, Greenwich Crest, Mockingbird Hill, Monthaven, Newport Shores, and the commercial area of Factoria." 3.1 Surrounding cities and neighborhoodsįactoria is part of the Duwamish Tribal Territory.
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