z-Yesler-Mill-from-foot-of-Cherry-Peterson-7879-WEB May 29, 2016 1200 × 633 Seattle Now & Then: Seattle’s First Big Fire Most likely another Peterson & Bros shot from their studio window. The mill has been rebuilt and the sheds proliferate. The subject is “conventionally” dated 1884, five years before it all be destroyed by the Great Fire` of June 6, 1889.