Editing Medina, Washington (section)

==History==

The eastern shore of [[Lake Washington]] between [[Meydenbauer Bay]] and Evergreen Point was a sparsely-populated area that was cleared for its timber in the 1870s. Seattle businessman Thomas Dabney established a claim on the south side of modern-day Medina in 1886, becoming the area's first permanent white settler. Dabney built a [[ferry dock]] in 1890, naming it Dabney's Landing, while the surrounding area was turned into berry farms and fruit orchards. Other settlers arrived at Dabney's Landing, which was briefly named Flordeline by its founder until objections were raised by a group of women who proposed the Arabic name "[[Medina]]" in 1891. After a series of debates and sign-switching incidents, Medina won and was adopted as the name of the town.<ref name="Times-Hist02">{{cite news |last=Cornwall |first=Warren |date=December 6, 2002 |title=A history with mansions |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20021206/goldcoast06e/a-history-with-mansions |work=The Seattle Times |access-date=December 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930232452/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20021206&slug=goldcoast06e |archive-date=September 30, 2012 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref name="HL">{{cite web |last=Dougherty |first=Phil |date=May 20, 2015 |title=Medina — Thumbnail History |url=http://www.historylink.org/File/1059 |work=[[HistoryLink]] |access-date=December 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181216025358/http://www.historylink.org/File/1059 |archive-date=December 16, 2018 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref name="Times-McDonald">{{cite news |last=McDonald |first=Lucile |author-link=Lucile Saunders McDonald |date=October 30, 1955 |title=Pioneer Times In the 'Points Country' |page=4 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref>

Medina was platted in 1914 and officially incorporated on August 19, 1955.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.medina-wa.gov/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={0EF1CA38-E35B-489B-8446-8B309737C420}|title=History of Medina|publisher=City of Medina, Washington|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304104537/http://www.medina-wa.gov/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B0EF1CA38-E35B-489B-8446-8B309737C420%7D |archive-date=March 4, 2016|access-date=September 17, 2009}}</ref> The town's first mansions were built in the 1920s by wealthy Seattle businessmen, encouraged by the arrival of direct ferry service, and led to the nickname of Washington's "[[Gold Coast (Washington state)|Gold Coast]]". The area's farmers, mostly of Japanese descent, were evicted during the [[Japanese American internment|1940s internment]] and their farms were turned over for redevelopment.<ref name="HL"/>