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Meadowbrook Update: September 2014
The rain and cooler temperatures of the week of September 21 to 27, 2014, were a signal to fish, that it is almost time for them to swim upstream! The summer dry-season is over, and in-water work at The Confluence … Continue reading
The New Boardwalk at Yesler Swamp
The Yesler Swamp is a wetland on part of what was the property of Henry Yesler, a Seattle pioneer who moved his sawmill business from downtown to this site on Union Bay in 1888. The Town of Yesler later became part … Continue reading
Twentieth Anniversary Celebration: Thornton Creek Alliance
Thornton Creek Alliance (TCA) is an all-volunteer organization whose goal is to benefit the watershed by encouraging individuals, groups, schools, businesses, and government to work together in addressing the environmental restoration of the creek system. It has been twenty years … Continue reading
Posted in Neighborhood features, Thornton Creek
Tagged environmentalism, Seattle, Thornton Creek Alliance, watershed
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August 2014 Update: Construction on the Creek
In the Summer of 2014 work is continuing on improvements at The Confluence, the joining-place of the north and south branches of Thornton Creek on 35th Ave NE at NE 107th Street. The two branches flow into Meadowbrook Pond, a … Continue reading
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
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
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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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
December in Wedgwood
December in the Wedgwood neighborhood in northeast Seattle is full of good cheer with charity drives, holiday decorations and shopping opportunities. In businesses on 35th Ave NE clustered around the intersection of NE 85th Street you will find Giving Trees … Continue reading
Posted in businesses, Events and holidays, Hunter's Tree Farm
Tagged holiday season, Seattle, shopping in Wedgwood
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Wedgwood in Seattle History 