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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
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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
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Wedgwood’s Mystery Tree-Planters
The 95-foot-tall scarlet oak tree on the northeast corner of NE 77th Street and 38th Avenue NE in Wedgwood is mentioned in Arthur Lee Jacobson’s book, Trees of Seattle, as one of the most outstanding of its type in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Neighborhood History, scarlet oak, Seattle
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From Laurelhurst to Wedgwood: the McLaughlin Realty Company
If you live between NE 85th to 90th Streets, 30th to 35th Avenues NE in Wedgwood, the legal description of your home is in the Earl J. McLaughlin plat. Who was Earl J. McLaughlin?
Wedgwood’s Big Green Hundred-Year-Old House
A house which is one hundred years old can hold a lot of history – and some mystery. Although we have traced the ownership history of the Big Green House at 7321 35th Ave NE, researchers have not been able … Continue reading
Growing Up with Balch
In the summer of 1953 sixteen-year-old Jon Jarvis, newly possessed of a driver’s license, enjoyed chugging around Wedgwood in a Model T Ford he had acquired. Lack of a driver’s license did not stop Jon’s thirteen-year-old brother Terry from driving … Continue reading
The House that Flew to Wedgwood
In the summer of 1959 I (Valarie) was among a group of Wedgwood neighborhood children who clustered on the sidewalk to watch a house being moved, maneuvered and set into place. The house went onto a sloping lot at the … Continue reading
Posted in 8921 25th Pl NE, Architecture, Houses
Tagged house histories, house-moving, Neighborhood History, Seattle
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Wedgwood Rock
It is a startling experience to come upon Wedgwood Rock for the first time. More than 19 feet high, the Rock looms up out of a parking strip on 28th Ave NE at the intersection of NE 72nd Street. How … Continue reading
Wedgwood in Seattle History 