The Thea Foss Waterway, formerly the City Waterway, is a north–south inlet of Commencement Bay separating downtown Tacoma, Washington, from the Port of Tacoma. The City Waterway was created in 1902 through a dredging operation proposed by the Northern Pacific Railway and led by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. An existing inlet was widened to 5…
The Thea Foss Waterway, formerly the City Waterway, is a north–south inlet of Commencement Bay separating downtown Tacoma, Washington, from the Port of Tacoma. The City Waterway was created in 1902 through a dredging operation proposed by the Northern Pacific Railway and led by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. An existing inlet was widened to 500 feet for that era's wheat ships and extended south, while a fork of the Puyallup River was severed. In 1989, the waterway was renamed to honor Thea Foss, who founded the Foss Maritime Company on the inlet in 1889.
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