Medina's ferry landing

Medina had boats coming over from Seattle on a regular run going back to the 1890s, tying up at a stout pier at the foot of N.E. 8th Street, close by the Green Store and the post office [1]. Thomas Dabney, one of the first people to settle there, gave the county the lakefront land for that wharf [1]. When the Port of Seattle brought car ferries to Medina and Bellevue in 1913, the original wharf sat at the foot of Evergreen Point Road, and it was left high and dry a few years on when the lake dropped nine feet with the opening of the Ship Canal [1]. After the water went down and new shoreline showed, King County put up a new car ferry dock and a terminal building [1]. The dock first stood right beside the terminal, then was shifted south [1]. When the ferries stopped, that terminal became a community clubhouse, and afterward Medina City Hall [1]. A much-remodeled city hall and a beach park are still on the site [1].