This collection of Vashon-Maury Island place names is a continually developing list that seeks your input and information. The place name list attempts to identify the origins and/or meanings of place names on the Islands
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A
Agren Memorial Park -
Air Defence Battery C -
Aquarium -
ASARCO Ruston Smelter -
Assembly Point -
Asta Lane SW -
B
Bachelor Road -
Bank Raod -
Bates Landing - Named after William Bates of Montana who settled on the west side in 1913.
Bates Road -
Bayview Road -
Beall Creek - Named for the Beall family who began operating greenhouse along the creek in 1910
Beall Road -
Beach Tavern
Beachwood Beach
Beaven Home - American Baptist Foreign Mission Society home for the children of
Baptist missionaries. Located on Burton Peninsula.
Bethel Lane SW -
Bethel Park - The Bethel Evangelical Church from Ballard established a church here in 1927.
Beulah Park -
Bicycle in a Tree -
Biloxi Dock - Name given by Ruth Kellogg, an early resident after her home town in Mississippi.
Biloxi Road -
Blake Island
Bleeker Brickyard
Blockhouse Museum
Brockway Hill
Bunker Trail - Built by the WPA in 1935-36, a Mr. Bunker lived at one end.
Burma Road - Named for the World War II route over the Himalayas because of its torturous turns
Burton - Town at the head of Outer Quartermaster Harbor named in 1892 by Miles Hatch after his place of birth on a farm in Burton Township, McHenry County, Illinois in 1845.
Burton Acres Park -
Burton Drive -
Burton Peninsula -
Burton Trading Company
C
Camp Burton
Camp Sealth - Land acquired by the Camp Fire Girls (now just Camp Fire) in 1921 and named Camp Sealth after Chief Sealth (Seattle).
Camp Sealth Road -
Carey Road SW -
Caster Road -
Cedarhurst - Named by early residents for the large number of tall cedars in the area.
Cedarhurst Canyon -
Cedarhurst Road -
Cemetery - The Vashon Cemetary was established in 1890.
Cemetary Road -
Center
Chautauqua - The Chautauqua Assembly was established here in 1888 as part of the Chautauqua Movement begun in Chautauqua, New York.
Chautauqua Beach Road -
Chautauqua Elementary School
Christensen Cove
Christensen Creek
Christensen Pond -
Columbia - The Columbia School was built here in 1897.
Columbia Avenue SW -
Colvos - Name after Colvos Passage.
Colvos Passage (West Passage) - Passage between Vashon and the Kitsap Peninsula named by Wilkes for Midshipman George W. Colvocoressis but shortened to Colvos for the offical charts.
Corbin Beach - Named for Harry S. Corbin a pioneer settler.
Cove - Descriptive name for the small bay.
Cove Motel -
Cove Road -
Cove Walk SW -
Cowan Road -
Cowley's Landing
Cresent Drive SW -
Cross Landing - named for William Cross who settled here in 1893.
Cross Landing Road -
Cunliffe Road -
D
Deppman Road SW -
Dilworth - Named for the Revered R.B. Dilworth who settled here in 1884.
Dilworth Point (Point Beals) Originally named for Artimus Beals one of Wilkes’ Quartermasters. The Dilworth name was for the Reverend R.B. Dilworth.
OBITUARY
Rev. Richard B. Dilworth
Born 1846 at Oxford, Penna, his first and longest pastorate was at the Presbyterian Church,Union City, Pa.,1874-1884. Here in his youth and vigor he was not only a dearly loved pastor but he left a lasting impression on the town, spending his time and strength for the benifit of the youth and for the cause of prohibition. Later he took up a homestead on Vashon Island, Puget's Sound, where he labored as a home missionary. His next pastorate was at Roseburg,Oregon. About 1890 he returned to the east. The following ten years was spent preaching at Montague, Hainesville and Dingman's, Pa. In 1918 he came to the Merriam Home. Mr Dilworth had five children by his first wife, of whom three are living; Mrs. Piatt and Miss Mary Dilworth of Seattle, Washington, and Richard of Erie, Pa., who was present at his fathers funeral. His second wife, who was Miss Annie Brown of Newton, survives him. Mr. Dilworth was a veteran of the Civil War; he was also a wonderful mathmatician and latter years of his life were devoted to evolving a system that would revolutionize and symplify the study of arithmetic, on the key to which he was working when death claimed him April 13,1921. Funeral services were at the Merriam Home Friday and were conducted by Rev.Clarence W . Rouse, D.D.,pastor of the First Prebysterian Church of Newton. The Burial was in the family plot in Newton cemetery. Prominent at the impressive service was a delegation of students from the Newton academy where previous to his death Mr. Dilworth had filled most acceptably as well as most efficiently the position of instructor of mathematics.
SOURCE: obit clipping from newspaper in "family memory book"
Dilworth Road -
Dock Street -
Dockton - Town on Maury Island named by the Puget Sound Dry Dock Company which had a ship yard and drydock (the largest on the west coast) there in the 1890’s.
Dockton Hotel -
Dockton Park -
Dockton Raod SW -
Dolphin Point -
Dolphin Point Road -
Dolphin Point Terrace SW -
Dugway Road -
E
Eagle Ridge
Eagle's Aerie
East Passage
Eernisse Apartments
Elissha Lane -
Ellis Creek
Ellisport - Village on the east side of Vashon Island named for the Reverend Ellis, who settled in the area in 1880
Ellisport Road -
Evangelical Lutheran Church -
F
Falcon’s Nest
Fern Cliffe
Fern Cove
Fern Heath
Fir Ridge
Fisher Creek
Fjeld’s Corner
Fort Necessity -
French’s Pond (Bill Fisher Pond)
Frog Holler
G
Glacier Mine -
Glen Acres - Name given to the area when it was platted in 1910.
Glen Acres Road SW -
Glen lLnding Road -
Gold Beach - Name given when platted it 1967.
Gold Beach Road SW -
Golf and Country Club -
Goodwill Farm -
Gorsuch Road -
Granny's Attic -
Green Valley Creek
H
Hake Road -
Hake Winery -
Hammersmark Landing -
Harbor Drive -
Harbor Heights
Harbor Mercantile -
Harbor School -
Hatch Building -
Hawthorne -
Hawthorne Lane -
Heyer Point (KVI Beach) - Named by Wilkes for Henry Heyer QM . The popular KVI name comes from the radio station whose tower is located on the point.
High School Hill -
Highland Avenue SW -
I
Inspiration Point -
Island Center Forest -
Island Club -
Island Manor Nursing Home -
Island Mutual Water -
Island Spring Co.
J
Jack’s Corner
James Point
Jensen Point
Jesus Barn -
J.G. Commons -
Jod Creek
Judd Creek
K
K2 Corporation -
Kimmel's Shop-Rite Shopping Center -
KING Radio -
Kingsbury Beach - Named for A.D. Kingsbury who settled here in 1889.
Kingsbury Road SW -
KIRO Radio -
Klahanie Beach - Indian name meaning “a good time outdoors” given to resort once located here.
Klahanie Road -
KVI Beach
KVI Radio
KOMO Radio
L
Lake Aldora (Lost Lake)
Landers Road SW -
Langill Landing -
Lisabeula - Area named by Postmaster Brink his two daughters Eliza and Buelah. Another account assigns these two names to the two young women working in the office to which John Brink applied for a post office permit.
Lisabeula Park - site of Lisabeula Resort, purchased by County Parks and the buildings removed to create the current waterfront park.
Lisabeula Road -
Lost Lake -
Luana Beach - Frank Hubell bought the area in 1908, named it after a former girl friend, and ran a resort here through the 1920’s.
Luana Beach Road -
Luana Lane SW -
Luseata Beach -
M
Madrone Inn -
Madrone Road -
Magnolia Beach -
Manzanita - Named in 1892 as part of the Tacoma yacht Club Park plat. The name is derived from the manzanita bush, a member of the heath family with includes arbutus, azalea and rhododendron; and a common name for the madrone tree.
Manzanita Beach Road SW -
Marjesira Inn -
Marjorie Stanley Forest - a plot of 18 acres stewarded by the VFW Post # --, given to the State of Washington as a wilderness preserve by Marjorie Stanley an historian of Vashon-Maury.
Martinolich Shipyard -
Masocin Hall -
Maury Beach
Maury Cemetery -
Maury Island - named after Lt. William L. Maury of the Wilkes Expedition
Maury Island Aquatic Reserve -
Maury Park Road -
Maury Regional Marine Park -
McLean Road SW -
McCormick Place -
McIntyre Road SW -
McMurray Middle School -
Meadow Lake (Sorgenfrie’s Pond)
The Meadows -
Melchert Way SW -
Mileta - named by the Hatch family using the first two letters of the family’s first names, Miles, Lewis, Tamar. A steamer dock was once located here, as well as a school.
Mileta Creek Heron Rookery -
Monument Road SW -
Morgan Hill - Elisha Morgan owned a poultry farm and peach orchard on this hill.
Mukai Gardens -
Mukai’s Pond - Named for O.B. Mukai, an early Japanese farmer and innovator in freezing strawberries.
Mutual Water System -
N
Neill Point - Named after William Neill, quartermaster on the Wilkes Expedition
Nettle Creek
Newport Beach
Nike Missile Base - named for the Nike anti-aircraft missiles stationed there during the height of the Cold War to protect the Seattle area and the Boeing plants.
Northilla - Area platted in 1909 by the Norton-Hill Company for summer homes.
Northilla Beach -
Northilla Road -
Northilla Terrace -
O
Ober Beach Road -
Ober Park - Named for John Ober, Postmaster at Vashon from xxxx to xxxx.
Odd Fellows Hall -
Old Highway SW -
Old Mill Road -
Old Winery Blueberry Farm -
Olympic Berry Company -
Olympic Drive SW -
Olympic Instruments -
Otsuka Farm -
P
Pacific Research Laboratories - The Bone Factory.
Paiges Landing - Named for Jedediah Paige who kept a float anchored for mosquito fleet boats beginning in the 1880’s.
Paige Lane SW -
Palisades Avenue SW -
Paradise Cove
Paradise Valley
Paradise Ridge
Paradise Ridge Park -
Patten Lane SW -
Patten's Palisades - Named by developer John Patten in 1957.
Pembroke - named after the Pembrooke Mining Company who owned the site.
Peter Point -
Piano Row - The row of houses in Dockton occupied by managers of the shipyards and dry dock. Called Piano Row because supposedly all the houses had pianos, a luxury item at the time.
Pillsbury Road SW -
Piner Point -
Piner Point Road SW -
Pioneer Monument -
Pohl Road -
Point Beals (Dilworth Point) Named after Artimus Beals, captain of the hold on the Wilkes Expedition.
Point Dalco - Named after -- Dalco, quartermaster on the Wilkes Expedition.
Point Defiance -
Point Heyer -
Point Piner - Named after Thomas Piner, quartermaster on the Wilkes Expedition
Point Robinson - Named after John Robinson, quartermaster on the Wilkes Expedition
Point Robinson Road -
Point Sanford - Named after Thomas Sanford, quartermaster on the Wilkes Expedition
Point Surprise (Clam Point, Gospel Point, Assembly Point, Baptist Point) -
Point Vashon -
Point Vashon Drive SW -
Portage - descriptive name given to the tidal neck that links Vashon and Maury islands. The tide flat was filled and a road constructed in 1916.
Portage House Hotel -
Portage Landing - Site at Portage where the first car ferry to Vashon ran from Des Moines.
Portage Way SW -
Q
Quartermaster - Name given to the first post office established on the harbor in 1890.
Quartermaster Drive -
Quartermaster Harbor - Harbor between Vashon and Maury islands named by Wilkes for his Quartermasters, after whom he named many points in the area.
Quartermaster School -
Quartermaster Yacht Club -
R
Raab’s Lagoon
Raeco - The site on Maury where the Raeco Company constructed a linoleum plant in the 1920’s that proved unsuccessful. A post office was located here when the plant was built.
Racoma Beach -
Raymond Road SW -
Reddings Beach - Named for the Reddings family who settled here in 1884.
Reddings Beach Road -
Ridge Raod SW -
Rindal Store -
Robinswood -
Robinswood Road -
Rosehilla Beach
Roseballen -
S
Sandiford Point -
Sandy Shores - Named and platted in 1965.
Sandy Shores Drive SW -
Saturday Market -
Sawbones -
Sea Breeze Avenue SW
Scales Corner
Schools -
Burton Elementary School -
Burton High School -
Center Grade School -
Chatauqua Eelementary School -
Columbia School -
Dockton Grade School -
Harbor School -
Lisabeula School -
McMurray Middle School -
Maury Grade School -
Melita Grade School -
Portage School -
Quartermaster School -
Southern Heights School -
Sunset Bay School -
Vashon College -
Vashon Grade and High School 1912
Vashon Military Academy -
Vermontville School -
Shananhan Road SW -
Shawnee - Platted in 1907 by Millard F. Shaw, who named it Shawnee.
Shawnee Road -
Sherman Creek -
Shingle Mill Creek -
Shore Acres -
Singer Road -
Silvan Beach (aka Sylvan) - Named by its developer in in early 1900’s.
Silverwood Gallery -
Smith Poultry Farm -
Soper Road -
Sound Food -
Southern Heights -
Sportsmen's Club -
Spring Beach - named after the springs in the area.
Spring Beach Road -
Saint John Vianny Catholic Church -
Saint Patrick's Catholic Church -
Steen Mill -
Stuckey Avenue SW -
Summerhurst -
Summerhurst Road -
Summerhurst Walk SW -
Sunflower Community -
Sunrise Ridge -
Sunset Beach -
Sunset Road -
Sylvan Beach -
Sylvan Beach Road -
Sylvan Beach Walk -
Swastika Lodge -
T
Tacoma Narrows Bridge -
Tahlequah - Ethel Winfield won a $50 prize in 1920 for naming the new south end ferry dock. The name comes from the town in Oklahoma which means “water view.”
Tahlequah Creek
Tahlequah Road -
Thorsen Road SW -
Thriftway Shopping Center -
Tillicum Lane -
Tillicum Village -
Tramp Harbor - Originally Trump Harbor, origin of the name is disputed.
Tramp Harbor Road -
U
Union High School -
Union J High School -
V
Valley Center -
Van Olinda Road -
Vashon Allied Arts -
Vashon Cemetary -
Vashon College -
Vashon Commons -
Vashon Community Care Center -
Vashon Heights -
Vashon High School -
Vashon Highway -
Vashon Island - originally named Vashon’s Island by Vancouver on May 29,1792 to honor his friend Captain James Vashon. Vancouver did not chart Vashon and Maury as separate islands and named the both Vashon’s Island.
Vashon Island Cooperative Hatchery -
Vashon Island Packing Company -
Vashon Landing -
Vashon Point -
Vashon State Bank -
Vashon Theatre -
Vashon Winery -
Vashon-Maury Community Food Bank -
Vashon-Maury Health Services Center -
Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Museum -
Vashon-Maury Island Land Trust -
Vermontville - Named by early settlers from Vermont. Located in the area of Glen Acre.s
Vermontville Road SW -
Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall -
W
Water District 19 -
Wax Orchards - August Wax converted a farm to a 140 acre fruit orchard in the 1930’s.
Wax Orchard Road SW -
Wesleyan Way -
West Passage -
Westside Highway -
Westside Water -
Whispering Firs Bog -
Whitfield Store -
Windmill Street -
Winghaven Park -
Wolf Town -
Woodmen of the World Hall -
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