Redmond

Redmond is a city in King County, Washington, United States, found 16 miles 26 km east of Seattle, inside the cutting edge enclave of Seattle metropolitan zone. The populace is assessed at 62,458 out of 2016, up from 54,144 in the 2010 census. Redmond is usually perceived as the home of Microsoft and Nintendo of America.

With a yearly bicycle race on city lanes and the state's just velodrome, Redmond is otherwise called the "Bike Capital of the Northwest" Native Americans have lived in the Redmond region for more than 10,000 years, in view of antiques found at the Redmond Town Center archeological site and Marymoor Prehistoric Indian Site.

The main European pilgrims touched base in the 1870s. Luke McRedmond recorded a Homestead Act assert for arrive alongside the Sammamish Slough on September 9, 1870, and the next year Warren Perrigo took up arrive nearby him. The waterways and streams had such a significant number of salmon that the settlement was at first named Salmonberg.

More pilgrims came, and with the foundation of the primary mail station in 1881, the name of the group was changed to Melrose. The new name was gotten from the Perrigos' effective motel, Melrose House, which annoy McRedmond. In the wake of getting to be postmaster, he effectively requested of to have the name changed to Redmond in 1883.