Tollgate Farm Park
This 410-acre farm and open space property preserves important agriculture, wildlife, open space, archaeological, and historic resources. The site includes a playground, trails, playfields, picnic areas, a farmstead, and a 1904 Queen Anne farmhouse.
The open space of Tollgate Farm and the nearby Meadowbrook Farm was originally an expansive prairie tended by the Snoqualmie people, who used fire to maintain open non-forest habitat.
Tollgate Farm was settled by Lucinda Collins Fares, who was a child of the first American settlers on the Duwamish. In the 1860s, she turned one of the Treaty War forts into her barn. The farm got its name because of its location as the toll stop along the wagon road to Snoqualmie Pass, which opened as a toll road in 1883. The property continued as a working farm for over 130 years, when developers eyed it for an office park and housing. North Bend officials and citizens rallied to save it, and the property was acquired for public ownership in 2001.
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