Mercer Island, Washington

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Mercer Island is a city in King County, Washington, United States, located on an island of the same name in the southern portion of Lake Washington. Mercer Island is in the Seattle metropolitan area, connected to the mainland on both sides by bridges carrying Interstate 90 and Link light rail, with the city of Seattle to the west and the city of Bellevue to the east. The population was 25,748 at the 2020 census. The island was formed 17,000 years before present by the Vashon Glaciation event during the Last Glacial Period and was originally inhabited by the indigenous Snoqualmie people. It was named for a member of the Mercer family, a prominent Seattle pioneer family, and was a recreational and hunting site for early European American settlers in the area. The first permanent European American settlers arrived in 1885 and were followed by the establishment of East Seattle on the northwest side of Mercer Island in 1887. East Seattle later developed into a resort town with regular steamboat...

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