Madison Park is an 8.3 acre (34,000 m²)
park in the
Madison Park neighborhood of
Seattle, Washington
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, located between the western shore of
Lake Washington on the east, 42nd Avenue E. on the west, E. Madison Street on the north, and E. Blaine Street on the south. 43rd Avenue E. divides it into two sections; the east is a swimming beach and public dock, and the west is a playground, playfield, and tennis courts. Next to the beach is Madison Park Co-op, a community playhouse for toddlers and children.
For the first 19 years of its existence, the Madison Street
Cable Railway
Cable may refer to:
Mechanical
* Nautical cable, an assembly of three or more ropes woven against the weave of the ropes, rendering it virtually waterproof
* Wire rope, a type of rope that consists of several strands of metal wire laid into a he ...
ran on Madison Street from
Elliott Bay
Elliott Bay is a part of the Central Basin region of Puget Sound. It is in the U.S. state of Washington, extending southeastward between West Point in the north and Alki Point in the south. Seattle was founded on this body of water in the 1850s ...
to the park.
Service was cut back to 21st Avenue in 1910. There was also
ferry service on Lake Washington from the early 1880s to August 31, 1950 from Madison Park across the lake to
Kirkland. (The construction of the
Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge
The Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge is a floating bridge in the Seattle metropolitan area of the U.S. state of Washington. It is one of the Interstate 90 floating bridges that carries the eastbound lanes of Interstate 90 across Lake Washingto ...
in 1940 had greatly reduced demand and the continued existence of the run could no longer be justified after
tolls were removed in 1949.)
Steamboat landing
From about 1890 to 1910 Madison Park was also a landing for
steamboats which ran on Lake Washington.
Gallery
References
External links
Parks Department page on Madison ParkMadison Park web site
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