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Category Archives: Land records and surveys
Property Records: Removal of Racially Restrictive Language
In the 1920s, as developers began to build plats of houses in northeast Seattle, some attached property covenants specifying that no person of a race other than White, could own property in that neighborhood. One of the first to do … Continue reading
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From Pasture to Playfield: View Ridge
The years of World War Two (1941-1945) marked a major turning point in the development of neighborhoods in northeast Seattle. Up until that time northeast Seattle had been very rural. There were some real estate investors and builders of houses … Continue reading
Old-Time Stores and Gas Stations at Union Bay Place in Seattle
Residents of northeast Seattle called it “the Baskin-Robbins corner.” The five-way intersection of Union Bay Place NE is at the east end of a long block, east of the University Village shopping center on NE 45th Street. One branch of the … Continue reading
Names in the Neighborhood: Before There Was A Hawthorne Hills
Part of the fun of blogging is being able to network with other writers. Here I am sharing a wonderful article written by Zach about the northeast Seattle neighborhood of Hawthorne Hills. In the years before a real estate company … Continue reading
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Tagged Neighborhood History, Seattle, WPLongform
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Names in the Neighborhood: Chelsea Becomes a School Street
Hugh Benton and Victor Palmer were young attorneys who arrived to make their fortunes in Seattle in the early 1900s. In those days attorneys would often expedite property transactions because the category of real estate agent as a profession had … Continue reading
Van Doren in Washington Territory
When we think of the pioneer white settlers of Washington Territory, we are referring to those who came before statehood in 1889. We assume that these adventurers were young single men out to make their fortune or young families seeking … Continue reading
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The Minnie Kraus Plat in Northeast Seattle
Minnie Kraus was a young woman who made a real estate investment in northeast Seattle in 1918, filing a plat which she named after herself. A “plat” is a section of land, any size, for which a map of streets … Continue reading
The Early Community in the State Park Plat in Wedgwood
In the early 1900s almost no one lived in what is now the Wedgwood neighborhood in northeast Seattle, due to the area’s lack of access to water, its remoteness and the lack of roads. In the 1870s, Capt. DeWitt C. … Continue reading
Posted in 3202 NE 75th Street, Houses, Land records and surveys, Plat names
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Seattle Stream Names
The City of Seattle has at least fifty streams flowing across its ridges, through meadows and wetlands into bodies of water including Puget Sound and Lake Washington. There is no one source for a list of Seattle streams and their … Continue reading
Posted in Land records and surveys, Nature and wildlife, research resources
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The Naming of Seattle
Along with the story of the naming of Seattle’s downtown streets, here on this blog I have also explored ways to find out the meaning of street names outside of the downtown area. The origins of the naming of the … Continue reading
Wedgwood in Seattle History 