About Medina, Washington

Medina is a city of 2,915 people in King County, on a peninsula on the east side of Lake Washington, across the water from Seattle. It began as a scattering of strawberry farms and orchards. Thomas Dabney came over from Seattle in 1886 and claimed shoreline running south to Dabney Point, and by 1890 he had built a ferry dock known as Dabney's Landing. Dabney wanted to call the settlement Flordeline, but Flora Belote, Ruby Burke and Eliza Geicker each suggested a name, and the group picked Belote's choice, Medina, after the holy city in Arabia. For a while the two sides kept swapping signs at the landing, until Dabney gave up. Locals still say it "Me-dye-na."

E. A. and Ade Barnes platted the town as Medina Heights on February 18, 1914, though the "Heights" soon fell away. Six weeks later the ferry Leschi started running from Seattle's Leschi Park, and builders followed. In 1916 the level of Lake Washington dropped by nearly nine feet, which opened new shoreline lots. Through the 1920s wealthy Seattle families built mansions here, and Medina earned the name Gold Coast. Publisher Miller Freeman put up a 14-room Tudor on Groat Point. Many of the farmers who still worked the land were Japanese Americans, and in the 1940s they were sent to internment camps.

“the people of Seattle are watching developments on the east side of the lake with more than ordinary interest”
The Seattle Times, April 1914
  • Grocery and post officeThe Medina Grocery opened its doors in 1908 at the corner where NE 8th Street meets Evergreen Point Road. Two years later, in 1910, David Hagenstein and his son Walter set up a post office in the back of the store. Walter ran both the grocery and the post office from 1924 until 1955.
  • A city by vote in 1955After Bellevue incorporated in 1953, its officials tried to annex nearby land. Medina residents responded with rival petitions, one to join Bellevue and one to become a city of their own. On July 26, 1955, voters approved incorporation 244-135, and the new city of about 1,940 people became official on August 19, 1955. One of the council's first acts set lot sizes between 16,000 and 30,000 square feet.
  • Golf, cattle, then golf againThe Overlake Golf Club opened an 18-hole course in 1927, but the Great Depression closed it in 1934 or 1935. For the next 15 years the land served as pasture, first for horses and then for Herefords. The club came back, and in 1953 a redesigned course opened on the 132-acre site.
  • The bridge that groanedThe Evergreen Point Floating Bridge opened in 1963, running from Seattle's Montlake neighborhood to Evergreen Point and cutting the point off from the rest of Medina. Residents soon complained about the noise. In 1968 the city began fining drivers $25 for any sound over 95 decibels, measured 20 feet away, though police admitted the bridge itself rattled as loudly as the cars.

Find your street

Names on the Medina map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks4

  • Medina City Hall
  • Eastland
  • Medina Park
  • Overlake Golf & Country Club

Streets and roads43

  • 82nd Avenue Northeast
  • 79th Avenue Northeast
  • Northeast Eighth Street
  • Evergreen Point Road
  • 84th Avenue Northeast
  • Overlake Drive West
  • Northeast Twelfth Street
  • 77th Avenue Northeast
  • 80th Avenue Northeast
  • Overlake Drive East
  • Northeast Tenth Street
  • Northeast 24th Street
  • 78th Avenue Northeast
  • 86th Avenue Northeast
  • Medina Circle
  • Northeast 32nd Street
  • Ridge Road
  • Northeast 14th Street
  • 78th Place Northeast
  • Northeast 22nd Street
  • Northeast 16th Street
  • Midland Road
  • Rambling Lane
  • Laurel Lane
  • Northeast Fourth Street
  • Northeast 21st Street
  • Northeast 28th Street
  • Northeast Seventh Street
  • Lake Washington Boulevard Northeast
  • Upland Road
Show all 43 streets
  • 83rd Avenue Northeast
  • Northeast Second Place
  • Northeast 18th Street
  • 73rd Avenue Northeast
  • 81st Avenue Northeast
  • Northeast 27th Street
  • 87th Avenue Northeast
  • 88th Avenue Northeast
  • Northeast Sixth Street
  • 73rd Place Northeast
  • Highmoor Lane
  • Groat Point Drive
  • Northeast 28th Place

Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.

The art of mapping a place

How This Map Was Made

Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.

  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

    The view from above

    Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.

  2. USGS elevation data rendered as shaded relief of Mendon, Massachusetts

    The shape of the land

    Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.

  3. Closeup of roads, waterways, and buildings on the Mendon, Massachusetts map

    The details of home

    Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.

  4. Finished Mendon, Massachusetts map shown in a black frame

    Geography becomes art

    Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.

Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.

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