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A Tree in Montlake
Reblogged from Montlake.net/flyer/: Seattle’s renowned tree expert Arthur Lee Jacobson has written about a fallen cherry tree near the Montlake Community Center at 1618 E. Calhoun Street, on the south side of the Lake Washington Ship Canal. Mr. Jacobson alerts … Continue reading
July 2014 Update: Thornton Creek Confluence Project
The South Fork of Thornton Creek flows eastward through culverts under 35th Ave NE at NE 107th Street in Meadowbrook. Work is underway this summer to widen and improve this channel of Thornton Creek. Instead of a straight, vegetation-choked channel, … Continue reading
Posted in Meadowbrook neighborhood, Nature and wildlife
Tagged fish, Seattle, Thornton Creek Watershed System
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The Confluence in 2014
Road closure update: As of June 2nd, 2014, 35th Ave NE is CLOSED at NE 107th Street. Summer construction work will be done to enlarge the creek bed of the South Fork of Thornton Creek and put in new, much … Continue reading
A Log House Life in Wedgwood in the 1930s
The Reese brothers, Fred and Albert, grew up in a German-speaking farm community in Minnesota in the 1880s. It was a hard-working life with limited opportunities, and the boys’ formal education ended at the eighth grade. From then on they … Continue reading
A Princess in Wedgwood
In the 1950s and 1960s the Wedgwood Community Club (WCC) was busy dealing with issues of city limits, zoning, street improvements, establishment of a business district and needed services such as schools and postal delivery. The Club was proud of … Continue reading
Redefining the Boundaries of Wedgwood in the 1950s
In the 1940s and 1950s the neighborhoods of northeast Seattle grew rapidly, with housing developments filling up what had been semi-rural areas which were still outside the city limits. Some people resisted the process of being absorbed into the City … Continue reading
Posted in boundaries, community club (old), name of the neighborhood, Plat names
Tagged annexation, city limits, Neighborhood History, Seattle
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The Great Backyard Bird Count 2014
The Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) is an annual four-day event that engages bird watchers of all ages in counting birds to create a real-time snapshot of bird populations. Participants are asked to count birds for as little as fifteen minutes (or as … Continue reading
The Seattle Archipelago, A.D. 7014
Valarie says: This map is based upon information about what would happen if all of the world’s ice sheets melted, flooding Seattle. We see that the Wedgwood neighborhood would survive!
Names in the Neighborhood: Wedgwood’s Boundaries and Neighborhood Identity
In the early 1900s Wedgwood in northeast Seattle did not have a name or a definite identity as a neighborhood. It took a post-World-War-Two growth spurt in population, and a housing development by Albert Balch, for the neighborhood to coalesce … Continue reading
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