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Location
Our Magnuson
Park / Sand Point neighborhood is
located in North Seattle on Lake Washington. It is east of Interstate-5 Exit 171 and
east of our Ravenna
neighborhood.
The Magnuson
Park / Sand Point area is defined as
the area bounded on the north by Northeast
85th Street and the Northgate
neighborhood, on the west by 35th
Avenue Northeast and the Ravenna
neighborhood, on the south
Northeast 50th Street and the
Laurelhurst neighborhood, and on the east by Lake
Washington.
Magnuson
Park is in red on the map to the left.
It should be noted that the
establishments on 85th
Street are in Northgate and the establishments
on 35th Ave. NE
are in Magnuson
Park.
Our Magnuson Park
/ Sand Point area includes the neighborhoods of View Ridge and Wedgwood. View
Ridge, one of the more affluent neighborhoods in the area, has homes with
beautiful views of the Cascades. Wedgwood has more affordable homes and is
popular with nearby University
of Washington Students
and staff.
History
In 1855 surveyors
nick-named Sand Point “Mud
Lake” due to all the
swamps in the area. Pioneers settled the area anyway and soon there was a
mill, shipyard, school and post office on the peninsula. When the Lake Washington Ship Canal was built in 1917 the lake
was lowered by eight feet and the swamps dried up. In 1920 King County
purchased Sand Point for a landing strip and sold it to the federal
government who used it as a U.S. Naval Air Station. In 1921 the first flight
around the world landed here. Bill Boeing also flew his first airplane on the
peninsula. The Sand Point Naval Air Station was closed until 1991.
See more about Madison
Park at this web site.
http://www.magnusonpark.com/history.htm
Seattle
Parks history page.
http://www.cityofseattle.net/parks/magnuson/history.htm
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