4-1884-birdseye-detail-show-ballast-isl-web September 19, 2016 1400 × 1112 Seattle Now & Then: Yesler’s Wharf, 1891 Part of Ballast Island is exposed, bottom-right, in this pre-fire 1884 Seattle Birdseye. Note Mill Street at the center. Here off-shore it is part of Yesler Wharf