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Essay 3462 : Printer-Friendly Format 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. The neighborhood began to develop when logging
slash gave way to small farms. A. W. Chandler purchased a
wetland above N 85th Street and platted it into four-and-a-half
acre farm tracts. The bog was drained to reveal rich soil. He
named his project the Mary J. Chandler Addition to Seattle. In
1922, Italian immigrant Ernesto Picardo bought four of the
blocks and began raising vegetables. In 1965,