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Parks in Wedgwood
Albert Balch, the developer of Wedgwood, intended to have some park space in the neighborhood but not all of his plans were realized, as he got busy with house-building. In 1941 Balch platted a forty-acre tract of land from 30th to 35th Avenues NE, … Continue reading
Posted in Balch, Neighborhood features, parks
Tagged corner of 86th & 35th, Neighborhood History, Seattle
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Wedgwood Rock: from Homestead to Houses
The Wedgwood Rock section of homes is from 25th to 30th Avenues NE, NE 70th to 75th Streets. This forty-acre tract was first platted (a plan for lots and streets laid out) in November 1945 by Albert Balch, a builder. Balch had … Continue reading
Posted in Balch, Plat names, Wedgwood Rock
Tagged Big Rock, homestead claims, Post-war housing developments
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Wedgwood Rock and Big Rock: the orphaned boulder-siblings
Wedgwood Rock has a sibling: Big Rock at 106 S. Main Street, Coupeville, Whidbey Island, about fifty miles north of Seattle. Testing of the mineral composition of both boulders has shown that they came from Mt. Erie, Fidalgo Island, near Anacortes … Continue reading
Posted in Balch, Plat names, Wedgwood Rock
Tagged Big Rock, glacial erratic, Neighborhood History, Seattle
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Wedgwood Rock: Fourth of July Picnic in 1881
Wedgwood Rock probably first came to the attention of white settlers in the 1870s. A land survey of north Seattle was done in 1855, but there was no notation of the existence of the Rock. The surveyors of 1855 described the terrain in … Continue reading
Posted in Civil War, School histories, Wedgwood Rock
Tagged 1880s in Seattle, Civil War, homesteaders, Neighborhood History, Seattle
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Continuing the Maple Creek Legacy
The story of the Maple Creek ravine in Wedgwood is that of dedicated conservationists who passed along the legacy from generation to generation. Beginning in the 1930s Dr. & Mrs. Philip Rogers held their fifteen acres as a nature preserve. In … Continue reading
The Wedgwood Broiler
This article gives the history of the Wedgwood Broiler restaurant in Wedgwood at 8230 35th Ave NE, in a two-acre shopping center at Wedgwood’s main intersection at NE 85th Street. In 1959 a grocery store (Tradewell) was the first building … Continue reading
The Scout Camp in Wedgwood
In the 1920s more people began to move into the Wedgwood area but there were still many large tracts of vacant, undeveloped land. Sometime during those early years Scouts began going to Wedgwood’s Maple Creek Ravine for camping and climbing … Continue reading
Willa’s Wedgwood Wilderness
The Maple Creek section of the Wedgwood neighborhood extends from 40th to 45th Avenues NE, NE 88th to 92nd Streets. A narrow, winding road meanders downhill from NE 88th Street to 45th Ave NE, following the curve of a Y-shaped ravine where … Continue reading
Posted in Maple Creek ravine
Tagged conservation easement, Neighborhood History, Seattle
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Wedgwood’s Apron Ladies
Up until 1960 a woodsy corner of Wedgwood called the Maple Creek ravine was still protected from development or pollution, due to long-time landowners who were conservation-minded. The Rogers family who began living there in the 1930s kept some of … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, Maple Creek ravine
Tagged environmentalism, Neighborhood History, neighborhood organizing, Seattle
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A Tree in Wedgwood History
If only trees could talk! If they could, Wedgwood’s trees might tell tales of life in the neighborhood in the past one hundred years or more. The bigleaf maple at 3158 NE 81st Street is a tree which might have a … Continue reading
Posted in ginseng farm, name of the neighborhood, trees
Tagged Neighborhood History, Seattle
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