The Woodinville Heritage Society was established in 1975 as a non-profit organization. The Society's mission is to acquire, preserve and perpetuate the artifacts and history of the greater Woodinville area. The Society's purpose is also to educate and distribute historical information to the community and to those interested in our history.

The Woodinville Heritage Society holds general meetings at 10:00 am on the 3rd Saturday of every month except July and August. The meetings are held at the Woodinville Heritage Museum, 14121 NE 171st Street, Woodinville, WA 98072.

In 1871, Ira (age 38) and Susan (age 23) Campbell Woodin and their daughters Helen (age 7) and Mary (age 4) loaded their worldly possessions into an old covered wagon and hauled them over the McGilvra Road in Seattle to Lauralshade on Lake Washington. There they transferred their belongings to a scow and towed with a row boat to the head of Lake Washington where they entered the Sammamish River, then called Squak Slough, the best possible access to this region. They made their way slowly and tediously up-stream to the land that was to be their home (approximately 4 miles as the crow flies – several times that by the winding slough). A son Frank was born in 1878. The Woodin home was the first post office, first school, first Sunday School as well as a half-way house between Seattle and the up-river settlements.

During the Woodin’s lifetime they saw their valley grow from a river community to logging and then to farming. The Woodin’s gave land for the Woodinville Recessional Memorial Mead. Ira passed away in 1908 and Susan in 1919 and they as well as many other early settlers have been laid to rest in this cemetery.