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Meigs Park

Meigs Park

Your kid could write a good history paper on George Anson Meigs – island pioneer, lumber baron, shipbuilder and founder of Port Madison back when we were still the Washington Territory.

Along the way, he found time to establish a dairy farm in the middle of the island, supplying the Port Madison mill town at low cost to keep the workers happy and the big saws whirling – a savvy businessman, indeed. Meigs didn’t live to see the 20th century, but the dairy made it into the 1950s.

To visit Meigs Park today is to encounter land still suffused with our cultural heritage, picture once rolling pasturelands and recall a time when agriculture and industry found common cause in the island’s very heart.

The park that bears Meigs’ name was created in 1992 when local entrepreneur and “undeveloper” Gale Cool reassembled about 90 acres of the old Meigs holdings, sold 67 acres to the Bainbridge Island Land Trust as open space and kept the rest to hang out on and restore. Cool sold to the City in 2007, and the parcels have since been unified under Park District stewardship.

From the parking wayside, an old dirt access road turned walking path runs parallel to the highway and skirts the park proper. Where cows milled and grazed, the land to the west is now thick with whatever has volunteered since the old farm days: stands of alder, cedars, the occasional maple or rogue cherry, random understory and fulsome blackberry patches that while not ecologically sound, are worth rememberi ... view more »

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Meigs Park

Bainbridge Island, WA 98110

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