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Shearwater part two: the Wedgwood Community Club fights Shearwater in the 1950s
In the 1950s the very active Wedgwood District Community Club made its voice heard in issues such as the completion of streets, water and other utilities, business district development in Wedgwood, and trying to get the Seattle Parks Department to … Continue reading
Shearwater Part One: Navy Housing in Wedgwood in the 1940s
Decatur Elementary School at 7711 43rd Ave NE in Wedgwood is on the site of what was Navy housing from 1945 to 1966. The first part of the school building was completed in 1961. With a later addition to the … Continue reading
Walter Haines, founder of the Fiddler’s Inn, Wedgwood
The Fiddler’s Inn at 9219 35th Ave NE in Wedgwood has a history which dates back to the end of Prohibition on December 5, 1933, when beer and wine again could be sold to the public. The founder and original owner … Continue reading
The Eastwood and Wedgwood Community Clubs
During the years of World War Two from 1941 to 1945 all Seattleites had some concerns about the possibility of bombing, since Seattle is a coastal city. For this reason people took civil defense training and organized their neighborhoods to help one another in … Continue reading
Roy Erford and the Euphonious Election District Names
Wedgwoodians of the 1940s may have been puzzled to learn that their voting district was called Sonora, which is a place name in Mexico. Those living north of NE 85th Street and east of 35th Ave NE were in the … Continue reading
How Wedgwood came into the City Limits of Seattle
The neighborhoods of northeast Seattle gradually came into the city limits between 1941 and 1954. The Seattle City Limits did not advance northward in a straight line, like water rising in a bathtub. It was up to each voting precinct … Continue reading
Posted in boundaries, Controversies
Tagged annexation, Neighborhood History, Seattle, what year did the city limits change
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Wedgwood’s Bus Company Lawsuit
One of Wedgwood’s biggest controversies, a lawsuit over the ownership of a bus company, is remembered by few people because the dispute began back in 1937.
Posted in Controversies, name of the neighborhood, School histories
Tagged Neighborhood History, Seattle, WPLongform
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Wedgwood’s Gathering Place at the Hunter Tree Farm
While best known for its annual Christmas tree sales lot in December, the Hunter Tree Farm property at 7744 35th Ave NE in Wedgwood, is open to the community for year-round use. In the summer of 2011 Wedgwood neighborhood activists … Continue reading
Wedgwood’s University Unitarian Church
In 2018-2019 the University Unitarian Church congregation vacated their building so that it could be renovated. The congregation met elsewhere while the work was done on the UUC building located on 35th Ave NE at the southeast corner of NE … Continue reading
What about the “E” in Wedgwood?
The Wedgwood neighborhood in Seattle took its name from a real estate development which was started in 1941 by Albert Balch. The naming happened gradually after Balch’s Wedgwood group of houses became well-known. In an April 1956 interview for the … Continue reading
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