As it turns out, much of what is now Ballard was owned by a partnership consisting of Thomas Burke (Burke Museum and half the name sake of the Burke-Gilman Trail), John Leary (Leary Way), Daniel Gilman (the other half of the Burke-Gilman trail) plus a fourth partner.
Together they ran a railroad line (now the Burke-Gilman Trail) and developed a portion of the land. In 1887, they dissolved the partnership, but no one wanted the ‘undesirable’ 160 acre tract of land adjacent to Salmon Bay.
So they flipped coins to figure out who would end up with what is now Ballard. The 4th partner was the loser, and Burke, Leary, and Gilman could walk away from that undesirable tract. And who was that 4th partner?
Captain William Rankin Ballard
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