If you want to learn something about Issaquah history, this is the place to go. Home to the one of the Issaquah History Museums, the building is one of the oldest still standing in what’s known as “Olde Town” Issaquah....

Wilbur Sylvester, a prominent citizen of early Issaquah, built a small house on this site around 1900. When the City of Issaquah later acquired the property and wanted to use the building, it had deteriorated so badly that the city...

Along with coal mining, logging was one of the catalysts for Issaquah’s growth during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the logging history display in Issaquah’s “Preservation Park” (it is not an official city park) reflects this. Built...

This is the site where the first Issaquah homesteaders filed claims in what was then known as the Squak Valley. Lyman Andrews filed first, soon after he discovered coal in the nearby mountains in 1862. Two Norwegian brothers, Lars and...

This site along Issaquah Creek was once part of a city park, and it was a popular venue for local events and large holiday celebrations during the 1920s. The hatchery was built in 1936 and 1937 as one of many...

The Independent Order of Oddfellows (IOOF) Hall was built in 1888. It is said to be the oldest commercial structure remaining in Issaquah. The IOOF is a non-political fraternal organization formed in the U.S. in 1819 in order to provide...

This distinctive building was built in 1910 to serve as the Bank of Issaquah, and at the time it was one of the most sophisticated and ornate buildings in town. The first floor served as a bank under various different...

Built in 1913, this building was originally known as the Issaquah Theatre. It was built with removable seats, and in its early years they would sometimes be removed for events such as graduations, basketball games, and school dances. For a...

The feed store’s origins are murky. There is speculation that the building was built in the 1890s to serve as a home, while other sources say Nicholas Burke built the building in 1903 to use as a warehouse as an...

A group of local businessmen opened the Northwestern Milk Condensing Company at this site in 1909 to serve local dairy farms, and there’s been a dairy plant here ever since. In its early years the plant condensed milk, made butter...

When this area was first settled in the nineteenth century it served as a hop farm; in the twentieth, it was a dairy farm. In 1993 the City of Issaquah bought part of the land and named it Issaquah Creek...

The Alexander House was built in 1902 by Thomas and Caroline Alexander on the eastern shore of Lake Sammamish below the community of Monohon. (Today this location is in the southwestern corner of the city of Sammamish, just east of...

Gilman Village sprang from an idea in 1972 by two local businesswomen, Betty Konarski and Marilyn Gray. The two women operated a small arts and crafts store named The Country Mouse that operated out of a house built in 1909,...

No trip to Issaquah is complete without a trip to Boehm’s. Julius Boehm, an Austrian who moved to the Seattle area in the early 1940s, opened his first candy store in Seattle in 1942. Business was so good that in...

The Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway arrived in Issaquah in 1888, and a depot with the same name — but more commonly known as the Issaquah Depot — was built in 1889. The railroad’s arrival kick-started Issaquah’s transition from...