big rock in the neighborhood
- Wedgwood in Seattle History (wedgwoodinseattlehistory.com)
The purposes of the Wedgwood in Seattle History blog are to tell stories of the development of northeast Seattle neighborhoods and their setting in the time periods of Seattle history, and to highlight the research resources which everyone can access: many sources are now on-line.
- Seattle Neighborhoods: Wedgwood — Thumbnail History (historylink.org)
Wedgwood (sometimes misspelled Wedgewood) was born of the housing boom of World War II, but its history reaches back to prehistoric times. Native Americans used the Wedgwood Rock as a landmark. In later years, picnickers, university students, climbers, and even hippies enjoyed it too. One of the farms in the neighborhood became the first P-Patch in Seattle. Wedgwood is a neighborhood in northeast Seattle, north of Ravenna, along what would become 35th Avenue NE.
Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
Psalm 137:7 KJV
- Wedgwood, Seattle (Wikipedia)
Wedgwood is a middle class residential neighborhood of northeast Seattle, Washington with a modest commercial strip. Wedgwood is located about two miles (3.2 km) north, and slightly east, of the University of Washington; it is about six miles (9.7 km) northeast of Downtown. The neighborhood is further typical of Seattle neighborhoods in having more than one name and having different, overlapping, but well-documented definitions of the neighborhood.