The History of
Mercer Island

Mercer Island's history was last published in a book titled Mercer Island Heritage, in 1985. For more information about this book, please go to our online store.

As history is updated and becomes available in web form, we will update this portion of this web site to include more information. These are the topics we felt you might be interested in learning about:

Historical Places on Mercer Island

Mercer Island Floating Bridge

The East Seattle Community

The Mercer Island Fire Department

Community Clubs