Lake Hills, Bellevue

Lake Hills is a neighborhood in Bellevue, Washington. It lies to the south of the Crossroads and north of the Eastgate neighborhoods.^[1]

In the early 1900s, Japanese immigrants farmed the part of Lake Hills between present day Larsen Lake and Phantom Lake.^[2] This agricultural activity was abruptly curtailed following the Japanese American Internment in 1942, and was eventually replaced by suburban housing.^[3]^[4] Lake Hills was annexed into Bellevue in 1969.^[4]

Today the Lake Hills neighborhood contains Bellevue College,^[5] the Lake Hills Greenbelt Urban Demonstration Garden (also known as the Bellevue Demonstration Garden), and Larsen Lake.^[1]

Larsen Lake in the Lake Hills neighborhood of Bellevue, Washington
Bellevue's Lake Hills Village in 2018

References

^ ^a ^b "City of Bellevue: Neighborhood Areas" (PDF). Retrieved February 22, 2024.
^ "City of Bellevue Parks and Recreation: Lake Hills Greenbelt Trails". City of Bellevue. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
^ Marsha, Alia. "How Bellevue businessmen who stoked fears benefited after Japanese American incarceration". The Seattle Globalist. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
^ ^a ^b Schein, Michael (September 27, 2016). "Lake Hills Library, King County Library System". HistoryLink.
^ "West Lake Hills (Official City of Bellevue Website)". Ci.bellevue.wa.us. Retrieved May 17, 2016.