Meadowbrook, Seattle, Washington

Meadowbrook is a neighborhood in the Lake City district (township annexed in 1954) of Seattle, Washington. [Phelps, Chapter 15, "Annexation", pp. 216–224, map "to 1921", p. 217; map "to 1975", p. 224, map key table p.222-3.] Meadowbrook is centered around open fields [cite web
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url =http://www.seattle.gov/parks/parkspaces/meadowbrookplayfield.htm
title ="Seattle Parks and Recreation: Meadowbrook Playfield"
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accessdate =2006-04-21] adjacent to the [http://www.seattle.gov/parks/Centers/meadowbrookcc.htm Meadowbrook Community Center] , [http://www.seattle.gov/parks/Aquatics/meadowbrookpool.htm swimming pool] , and Nathan Hale [http://www.seattleschools.org/schools/hale/ High School] . It is bounded on the south by NE 95th Street and the Wedgwood neighborhood, on the north by NE 120th Street and Cedar Park, on the west by Lake City Way NE (State Route 522–SR 522) and Victory Heights. [cite web
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url =http://www.seattle.gov/parks/parkspaces/VictoryHeightsPlayground.htm
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accessdate =2006-06-06] , and on the east by 35th Avenue NE and Matthews Beach, ( [http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/public/nmaps/S/NN-1049S.htm map] ). [ (1) cite web
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url =http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/public/nmaps/S/NN-1049S.htm
title ="Meadowbrook"
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publisher =Office of the Seattle City Clerk
accessdate =2006-04-21
Maps "NN-1030S", "NN-1040S".jpgdated 17 June 2002.
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See heading, "Note about limitations of these data".] The neighborhood is almost entirely residential. There are no commercial strips, though there are some small restaurants and other businesses.

History

Meadowbrook, with Thornton Creek near Lake Washington, has been inhabited since the end of the last glacial period (c. 8,000 B.C.E.—10,000 years ago). The "tu-hoo-beed" (Thornton Creek) "hah-chu-ahbsh" ["too-HOO-beed", "hah-choo-AHBSH" [Dailey] ] (Lake People) of the Duwamish ("Dkhw’Duw’Absh", People of the Inside) Lushootseed (Skagit-Nisqually) Coast Salish native people lost their rights in 1854. The Lake City area was clearcut by crude wagon road or by using Lake Washington from 1850 past the turn of the century, more rapidly with the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railroad (c. 1886) providing easy access along what is now the Burke-Gilman Trail through adjacent Matthews Beach neighborhood and along the lake. A Little Germany neighborhood of several immigrant farmers grew up in the 1870s around where Nathan Hale High School now stands. [Wilma]

The Blindheim family [http://northonline.sccd.ctc.edu/cl/elh/cases/case05B/5B-AR-2_thumb.jpgLaVilla Dairy] , located on what is now the [http://northonline.sccd.ctc.edu/cl/elh/cases/case05B/5B-AR-1_thumb.jpg10300 block of Fischer Place NE] , and the orchards extending up the adjacent hill to the east are defining characteristics of Meadowbrook. The dairy operated from 1913 to 1929, although it was occupied unil 1990. The dairy was also called La Villa. Both the dairy building and the family house still stand. Traces of the original Bothell-Everett highway can still be found nearby. The centerpiece of Meadowbrook is on land sold by the family to the City for the park (as well as for other green space). [(1) cite web
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work ="Thornton Creek Heritage Sites"
publisher =Thornton Creek Watershed Community Library
accessdate =2006-04-21]

Thornton Creek in Meadowbrook

Thornton Creek, flowing through Meadowbrook, has been largely restored and daylighted, notably the confluence of the north and south forks near the Meadowbrook fields. [cite web
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url =http://www.seattle.gov/parks/parkspaces/meadowbrookplayfield.htm
title ="Meadowbrook Playfield"
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accessdate =2006-06-06] The environmental restoration near the school and in the neighborhood is used for school class work in the sciences. The Community Center nearly faces the entry to restored Meadowbrook Pond and wetland across 35th Avenue in Matthews Beach neighborhood. [cite web
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url=http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/util/About_SPU/Drainage_&_Sewer_System/Projects/MEADOWBROO_200312031215033.asp
title ="Meadowbrook Pond"
publisher =Seattle Public Utilities
accessdate =2006-04-21]

See also

*Thornton Creek
**Matthews Beach neighborhood
**Northgate district

References

Bibliography

* cite web | last = | first = | date =Revised 2006-04-30 | year = | month = | url=http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~public/about.htm | title ="About the Seattle City Clerk's On-line Information Services" | work =Information Services | publisher =Seattle City Clerk's Office
accessdate =2006-05-21
See heading, "Note about limitations of these data".
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Page links to [http://coastsalishmap.org/Village_Descriptions_Duwamish-Seattle.htm Village Descriptions Duwamish-Seattle section] .
Dailey referenced "Puget Sound Geography" by T. T. Waterman. Washington DC: National Anthropological Archives, mss. [n.d.] [ref. 2] ;
"Duwamish et al vs. United States of America, F-275". Washington DC: US Court of Claims, 1927. [ref. 5] ;
"Indian Lake Washington" by David Buerge in the "Seattle Weekly", 1-7 August 1984 [ref. 8] ;
"Seattle Before Seattle" by David Buerge in the "Seattle Weekly", 17-23 December 1980. [ref. 9] ;
"The Puyallup-Nisqually" by Marian W. Smith. New York: Columbia University Press, 1940. [ref. 10] .
Recommended start is [http://coastsalishmap.org/start_page.htm "Coast Salish Villages of Puget Sound"]
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Maps "NN-1030S", "NN-1040S".jpgdated 17 June 2002.
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Sources for this atlas and the neighborhood names used in it include a 1980 neighborhood map produced by the Department of Community Development (relocated to the [http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/neighborhoods/resources.htm Department of Neighborhoods] and other agencies), Seattle Public Library indexes, a 1984-1986 Neighborhood Profiles feature series in the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer", numerous parks, land use and transportation planning studies, and records in the [http://www.cityofseattle.net/CityArchives/ Seattle Municipal Archives] .
[Maps "NN-1120S", "NN-1130S", "NN-1140S".jpg[sic] dated 13 June 2002; "NN-1030S", "NN-1040S".jpgdated 17 June 2002.]
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See also Bibliography at Lake City for complete list Wilma referenced.

Further reading

*City of Seattle Parks Department
** [http://www.seattle.gov/parks/Centers/Meadowbrook/rental.htm Meadowfield Community Center]
** [http://www.seattle.gov/parks/proparks/projects/meadowbrookplayfield.htm Meadowbrook Playfield]
*Thornton Creek
** [http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/util/About_SPU/Drainage_&_Sewer_System/Projects/Creek_Restoration/THORNTONC_200312031206023.asp Thornton Creek Watershed, City of Seattle Public Uttilites]
** [http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/util/About_SPU/Drainage_&_Sewer_System/Projects/MEADOWBROO_200312031215033.asp Meadowbrook Pond, City of Seattle Public Uttilites]
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"with additions by Sunny Walter and local Audubon chapters."
Viewing locations only; the book has walks, hikes, wildlife, and natural wonders.
Walter excerpted from
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See "Northeast Seattle" section, bullet points "Meadowbrook", "Paramount Park Open Space", "North Seattle Community College Wetlands", and "Sunny Walter -- Twin Ponds".
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