page_title: A. W. Piper
section_title: Piper legacy in Seattle
hierarchical_section_title: A. W. Piper / Piper legacy in Seattle
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of A. W. Piper's Seattle locations, including Piper's Creek, Piper Orchard, his homes on 11th between Pike and Pine, on 1523 Boren, his bakery on Front St (now 1st Ave) between Cherry and James, and his grave in Lake View Cemetery. Created with Tableau. Underlying map data from Tableau via OpenStreetMap using Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL). See About Tableau Maps.
context_page_description: A. W. Piper was a Seattle, Washington pioneer whose name was given to Piper Orchard, Pipers Creek and Piper's Canyon in Carkeek Park, and who was elected in 1877–1878 a socialist Seattle City Council member. He owned a bakery known for its artistic confections that served Seattle and the Puget Sound region.
context_section_description: A. W. Piper may have been the first of several Socialists or Communists on the Seattle City Council, including  Hugh De Lacy, elected in 1937, who was a secret member of Communist Party USA; and Kshama Sawant, who won a seat in 2013 as Socialist Alternative party member.
  His property on Lake Washington became Naval Air Station Sand Point, what is now Seattle's Magnuson Park. Piper's farm and orchard at Pipers Creek are now part of Seattle's Carkeek Park. The trees are still productive, and an annual Festival of Fruit is held there.
  The land at Carkeek Park, called "the Ranch" by the Piper family, had been previously logged twice, and A. W. Piper's eighth child, Walter (June 27, 1873, Victoria, B.C.–September 20, 1914, Seattle), tried to log the land a third time, but did not make money. Walter was a junior partner in the successful Piper & Taft Sporting Goods, which was later bought by Eddie Bauer.
  Piper's son Oscar Albert Piper (b. 1876) was one of the University of Washington's first graduated engineers. He joined the United States Army Corps of Engineers, helped plan the Lake Washington Ship Canal, and served as Seattle's acting City Engineer in 1934 and 1936.
  A. W. and Minna Piper were nominated as among the 150 most influential individuals in Seattle's history in the 2001 Museum of History and Industry–Seattle Times "Metropolist" project.
caption: Map of Piper's sites in Seattle
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