Redmond is a city in King County, Washington, United States, located 15 miles (24 km) east of Seattle. The population was 54,144 at the 2010 census and an estimated 71,929 in 2019. Redmond is commonly attributed as the house of Microsoft and Nintendo of America. With an annual bike race upon city streets and the state’s single-handedly velodrome, Redmond is otherwise known as the “Bicycle Capital of the Northwest”.

Native Americans have lived in the Redmond area for exceeding 10,000 years, based on artifacts discovered at the Redmond Town Center archaeological site and Marymoor Prehistoric Indian Site. The first European settlers arrived in the 1870s. Luke McRedmond filed a Homestead Act affirmation for land neighboring the Sammamish Slough on September 9, 1870, and the as soon as year Warren Perrigo took stirring land adjacent to him. The rivers and streams had in view of that many salmon that the pact was initially named Salmonberg. More settlers came, and taking into consideration the opening of the first pronounce office in 1881, the name of the community was tainted to Melrose. The further name was derived from the Perrigos’ successful inn, Melrose House, which mistake McRedmond. After becoming postmaster, he successfully petitioned to have the name changed to Redmond in 1883.

The abundant forests and fish of Redmond provided jobs for loggers and fishermen, and later those jobs came request for goods and services, bringing in merchants. The logging industry expanded significantly in 1889 afterward the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway built a station in the middle of town. The first plat for Redmond was filed upon May 11, 1891, encompassing much of the area now known as downtown. After reaching the critical population of 300, Redmond was incorporated upon December 31, 1912.

Redmond experienced an economic downturn in the 1920s. Prohibition forced saloons to close, cutting off a large share of the city’s tax base. The forests were declining after close logging, causing lumber mills to shut down. The deforested home was up to standard for farming. Agriculture became Redmond’s primary business, keeping residents fed during the Great Depression. When the U.S. entered World War II, shipyard jobs and further wartime exploit came to Redmond.^{[citation needed]}

After the war, Redmond’s fee began in earnest. The city expanded beyond thirty times larger in Place through annexations along with 1951 and 1967. From 1956 to 1965, Redmond was bordered by the town of East Redmond, which was formed by rural homeowners and complex dissolved by the Washington Supreme Court. The skill of the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge across Lake Washington in 1963 allowed Redmond to be plentiful as a suburb of Seattle. In 1978, the U.S. Census Bureau proclaimed Redmond the fastest growing city in the state. Many technology companies made the city their home, and the increasing population demanded more retail shops. By the late 1980s, Downtown Redmond had become “a series of strip centers in the middle of parking lots”, sparking plans for a mixed-use revitalized downtown.