It was a wonderful convergence of a beautiful day and a hearty group of volunteers at the Crown Hill Natural Area on December 4. Fourteen members of the UW National Honor Society came out to refurbish the ADA walkway, clear the trails of debris, cut back overgrown shrubs, and pick up litter [...] [...]
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[ October 21, 2010; 7:00 pm to 8:15 pm. ] Interested in what tales your home holds of its past owners? The Ballard Historical Society is holding a lecture on how to use the Puget Sound Regional Archives to find out more. A free lecture sponsored by the Ballard Historical Society Thursday, October 21, 2010 7:00 p.m.- 8:15 p.m. Speaker: Greg Lange, Puget Sound Regional Archives Sunset Hill Community Center, 3003 NW [...] [...] September 19th, 2010 | Tags: Ballard Historical Society, History, Public records, Puget Sound Regional Archives, research | |
 Print This Post | Oldest Picture of My House (click to enlarge) Most of us are not the original owners of the house we live in. It is only natural to wonder what our abode might have looked like in past years before the addition, how long that tree in the front yard has been there, when the garage was [...] [...] July 23rd, 2010 | Tags: History, King County Assessor, King County Records, Photographs | |
Print This Post | By Heidi Madden and Chris Jacobsen Have you ever driven past the Eddie McAbee entrance to Carkeek Park off of NW 100th Place and wondered who Eddie McAbee is? Perhaps the name sounded familiar: Didn’t a guy named McAbee build a bunch of stuff around here? Eddie McAbee Entrance to Carkeek Park Eddie McAbee was in fact the [...] [...] By Heidi Madden & Chris Jacobsen The Original Art's Globe (photograph used with permission from Herb and Sue McAbee) August 22, 1956 was the day the housewives of Crown Hill had been waiting for: The Plaza Shopping Center (a.k.a. Art’s Plaza) on 6th Ave. N.W. and Holman Road was having its grand opening. High on its [...] [...] This article links to a two-part series on the history of the Crown Hill Cemetery. The articles are posted in “Beyond The Ghosts … A Cemetery Blog” by GE Anderson. The mystery of Lily the Tabby Cat interred there is almost as intriguing as the Cipher in Room 214 burial. http://geanderson.wordpress.com/2010/04/03/crown-hill-cemetery-part-i/ http://geanderson.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/crown-hill-cemetery-part-ii/ These articles are also included in [...] [...] By Heidi Madden On the crisp, clear afternoon of December 7, 1924, ships passing through Puget Sound on their way to Elliott Bay were treated to a surprise: On a ridge high above the Sound, just north of Seattle, a new 600-square-foot American flag had been hoisted. The impressive symbol, meant to be the “first [...] [...] May 28th, 2010 | Tags: greenspace, History, Olympic Golf Course, Olympic Manor, parks | |
Print This Post | By Chris Jacobsen & Heidi Madden If you were to stand facing north at the intersection of 8th Ave. NW and NW 105th today, you would see rows of ramblers built in the early 1950s during the post-war building boom. You would hear traffic from Holman Road and Greenwood Ave. N. But years ago, my parents, [...] [...] Ever wonder what your neck of the woods looked like a long time ago? A while ago, I stumbled across a set of aerial photographs from 1936 at the King County Records site. Looking at many areas of Crown Hill using the online IMAP Geographic Information System, I visualized the area before it was converted [...] [...] #27 Trolley Ever heard of the Stockade in Crown Hill? Before 1913, the County Stockade took up several blocks of Crown Hill between NW 85th and 15th NW to 8th NW. A large building and bath house were enclosed by an eight foot fence where men worked to clear land, cut wood and build roads for the [...] [...] November 22nd, 2009 | |
Print This Post | [ June 6, 2010; 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] Ballard Classic Homes Tour Sunday, June 6, 2010, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Join the Ballard Historical Society to tour seven lovely vintage homes built between 1909 and 1929. The homes on this year’s Ballard Classic Homes Tour serve as standards of enduring interest, quality and style. The tour is the Ballard Historical Society’s [...] [...] May 3rd, 2009 | |
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