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Wedgwood Rock
Wedgwood Rock is a glacial erratic (and known to geologists as the "Wedgwood Erratic") near the neighborhood of Wedgwood in Seattle, Washington. (Technically, the rock is outside the boundary of Wedgwood, in the Bryant/Ravenna neighborhoods.)〔Bunn 2010.〕 Its mineral composition matches that of Mount Erie, on Fidalgo Island in Skagit County, Washington,〔Bunn 2011.〕 north. Prior to the establishment of the Wedgwood neighborhood, the erratic was known first as Lone Rock and later simply as Big Rock.〔 Deposited more than 14,000 years ago by the Vashon Glacier, it was a landmark for Native Americans in what was once a dense forest.
==19th century history==
In 1881, the rock, known at the time as Lone Rock, was part of the 160-acre farm of William Weedin.〔 An anonymous 1881 letter to the Seattle ''Daily Intelligencer'' about a Fourth of July picnic at the rock described it as "in a dense forest" on Weedin's land, and as "a single rock in circumference and in height, rather oval-shaped, covered with a solid network of moss and interspersed with liquorice, with its graceful fern-shaped foliage hanging in festoons around it."〔Unsigned letter to the editor of the ''Daily Intelligencer'', Seattle, July 6, 1881, quoted in Bunn 2010.〕 This rock has an estimated mass of 700 metric tons.
In 1888 the Weedin property passed to Mary Miller, widow of William Miller. William Miller, an ally of Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens, fought in the Puget Sound War and Yakima War of 1856–1857.
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