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The Ohland Family and the Meadowbrook Golf Course
Nathan Hale High School in Seattle is on a large field at NE 110th Street, bounded on either side by the arterials 30th & 35th Avenues NE. The South Branch of Thornton Creek flows eastward across the school site. The … Continue reading
Tachell & Burns at the Meadowbrook Golf Course in Seattle
James Tachell (1862-1944) was born in England and came to the USA with his parents and siblings in 1866. They lived in Calumet, Houghton County, Michigan, where James met his wife Charlreane and they started their family. In the 1890s … Continue reading
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The Thornton Creek Watershed Restoration Project in Meadowbrook
A car in the ditch…. and then another and another. Over the past three years, residents of the Meadowbrook neighborhood in Seattle often noticed cars in the ditch on the north side of NE 110th Street nearest to the corner … Continue reading
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The Willow Creek Fish Passage Restoration Project in Meadowbrook
The Thornton Creek Watershed of northeast Seattle has two main branches, North and South. These branches converge at The Confluence in the Meadowbrook neighborhood at NE 107th Street, on the east side of 35th Ave NE across from Nathan Hale … Continue reading
Names in the Neighborhood: Meadowbrook
Meadowbrook began as the name for the golf course which opened in 1932 on the former Fischer Farm property, present site of Nathan Hale High School on NE 110th Street. Gradually other entities, including real estate developers, adopted the Meadowbrook … Continue reading
Robinson Tile and Marble Company
The year 1909 was a busy, exciting time in Seattle in preparation for a world’s fair event called the AYPE. The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition was to open in June 1909 on the campus of the University of Washington in northeast Seattle. In … Continue reading
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Meadowbrook’s Garden
A hedge of zinnia flowers along the roadside attracts our eye and tells us that something special is happening at 10700 30th Ave NE. Adjacent to the tennis courts at Nathan Hale High School, on land which belongs to Seattle … Continue reading
An Elm Tree in Seattle History
The American Elm is a species of tree native to the northeastern United States, and elms can also thrive in the temperate climate of the Pacific Northwest. Elms can grow to seventy feet high, with a wide-spreading canopy of branches … Continue reading
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Dorothy’s Thornton Creek Adventure
The Thornton Creek watershed extends eighteen miles through Shoreline and northeast Seattle, with its outlet into Lake Washington at about NE 93rd Street. The creek has two main branches, North and South, with many tributaries. Just as it is today … Continue reading
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The Roy Land Family of Meadowbrook
In 1930 twenty-four-year-old Henry Land and his wife were living near NE 97th Street in northeast Seattle, where Thornton Creek flowed past on its way to what is now Matthews Beach. Henry worked as a mechanic at one of the … Continue reading
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Wedgwood in Seattle History 