[citation needed] The site where Nathan Hale High School now sits was formerly Meadowbrook Golf Course.

[citation needed] Meadowbrook, with Thornton Creek near Lake Washington, has been inhabited since the end of the last glacial period (c. 8,000 BCE—10,000 years ago).

A Little Germany neighborhood of several immigrant farmers grew up in the 1870s around where Nathan Hale High School now stands.

[10] The Blindheim family LaVilla Dairy,[11] located on what is now the 10300 block of Fischer Place NE,[12] and the orchards extending up the adjacent hill to the east are defining characteristics of Meadowbrook.

The Community Center nearly faces the entry to restored Meadowbrook Pond and wetland across 35th Avenue in Matthews Beach neighborhood.