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Once the fair idea was conceived, several sites were considered.

Among the sites considered within Seattle were Duwamish Head in West Seattle ; Fort Lawton ( now Discovery Park ) in the Magnolia neighborhood ; and First Hill — even closer to Downtown than the site finally selected, but far more densely developed.

Two sites south of the city proper were considered — Midway, near Des Moines, and the Army Depot in Auburn — as was a site east of the city on the south shore of Lake Sammamish.