Author Archives: Wedgwood in Seattle History
September in Flight: Bird Migration
As the weather gets cooler and the leaves begin to change color, birds begin their annual migration. This article reprinted from All About Birds tells, how, why and where birds migrate. “Geese winging their way south in wrinkled V-shaped flocks … Continue reading
A Headstone for Captain John M Hoyt at Last
Guest article from the Emerging Civil War blog: the story of how the unmarked grave of a Civil War veteran was discovered and honored in Seattle.
Far Beyond the Sounds of Battle: Seattle’s Civil War Legacy
This guest article by Seattle’s Civil War Legacy is reposted from the Emerging Civil War blog of June 29, 2021. A letter received in Seattle in 1863, telling of actions during the Civil War, was reprinted in the local newspaper. … Continue reading
Honoring a Civil War Veteran
Although Washington State did not send troops to the Civil War (1861-1865), after the war veterans from all over the USA chose to come to the Pacific Northwest to start new lives. Cemeteries all around the Seattle area contain graves … Continue reading
Aretha Curtis and Maple Leaf Gardens
In the years 1915 to 1945 the lives of Americans were bracketed by two world wars with an economic depression in the middle. For a few years in the 1920s, after the First World War and before the stock market … Continue reading
Laurette Stanley in Wedgwood
Laurette Augusta Young and Moses Terrell Stanley married in 1869 in Sweetland Township, Muscatine County, Iowa. Each had come to Iowa as children when their parents migrated from other states to take advantage of the rich farmlands on the expanding … Continue reading
Martha Hawks, Real Estate Agent in Morningside Heights
In the 1920s the (future) Wedgwood neighborhood first began to be known as Morningside Heights, the name of a real estate development. Growth was facilitated by the new Victory Way highway, today’s Lake City Way NE, which made it much … Continue reading
Alexandrina McKenzie and Real Estate in Early Wedgwood
In the year 1900 Alexandrina McKenzie was a 43-year-old farm wife in Bingham Township, Huron, Michigan, with five of her six children still at home. Ten years later, Alexandrina was a widow in Seattle, supporting herself and her children with … Continue reading
Old-Time Stores and Gas Stations on Sand Point Way NE
Establishment of the Naval Air Station on the shore of Lake Washington in 1927 was the catalyst for street improvements and commercial development along Sand Point Way NE. The City of Seattle officially named Sand Point Way and coordinated with … Continue reading
Sand Point Way NE: Stores and Stations at NE 97th Street
The establishment of the Naval Air Station at Sand Point in the 1920s caused Sand Point Way NE to become an arterial street. Even though the naval base grew slowly at first, its presence caused northeast Seattle to hope for … Continue reading
