Tag Archives: Neighborhood History

The Early Community in the State Park Plat in Wedgwood

Posted on September 24, 2019 by Wedgwood in Seattle History

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 →

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Lincoln High School in Seattle

Posted on September 4, 2019 by Wedgwood in Seattle History

A ribbon-cutting and open-house event was held at Seattle’s Lincoln High School on September 3, 2019, as the school celebrated its modernization and renovation.  There will be more opportunities for alumni to tour the building — see the Lincoln Lynx … Continue reading →

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Seattle Stream Names

Posted on July 23, 2019 by Wedgwood in Seattle History

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 →

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Seattle Street Names North of Lake Union

Posted on July 15, 2019 by Wedgwood in Seattle History

Seattle historian Rob Ketcherside has previously cataloged the street names which were reorganized in a major City ordinance in the year 1895.  That was when the decision was made to have Seattle’s streets keep one name along their entire length, … Continue reading →

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Fremont at the Center of the Universe

Posted on June 11, 2019 by Wedgwood in Seattle History

Fremont is one of Seattle’s most art-filled neighborhoods, with many murals, sculptures and other indoor and outdoor artworks.  As written on the webpage of the Fremont Chamber of Commerce, “Where else will you find a troll, a drawbridge, a rocket, … Continue reading →

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Fremont Drug Company in Seattle, Part Three: from Drugstore to Red Door

Posted on April 24, 2019 by Wedgwood in Seattle History

The Red Door restaurant was in the Fremont Drug Company building which was moved to its present site, 3401 Evanston Avenue, in the year 2001.  This original Fremont Drug Company building was built in 1895 at 3401 Fremont Avenue. Founded … Continue reading →

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Fremont Drug Company in Seattle, Part Two: the Brothers and the Business

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Wedgwood in Seattle History

The census of the year 1900 showed that at age 24, Thomas W. Lough had already experienced extremes of joys and heartaches in his life.  At age 21 in January 1898, Thomas married Vina Graham in a ceremony at the … Continue reading →

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Fremont Drug Company in Seattle, Part One: Beginnings

Posted on March 8, 2019 by Wedgwood in Seattle History

In the 1880s the City of Seattle had been growing slowly and was only the second-largest city in Washington Territory, after Walla Walla.  At the end of that decade, Seattle experienced a growth spurt from an unexpected source:  a major … Continue reading →

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Doctors and Drugstores in Early Fremont, Seattle

Posted on February 20, 2019 by Wedgwood in Seattle History

The story of Seattle’s Great Fire of June 6, 1889, was widely publicized in national newspapers, including the response of Seattle leaders who pulled together immediately to commence rebuilding the downtown business zone. Across the USA people recognized the opportunity … Continue reading →

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The Canney Family and the Lake Union Presbyterian Church

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Wedgwood in Seattle History

The Fremont neighborhood of Seattle is located at the northwest corner of Lake Union, which Seattle’s early-arriving white settlers recognized as an ideal location for industries such as sawmills. Even though the future-Fremont site was the 1854 homestead claim of William … Continue reading →

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