Lake Hills is a neighborhood in

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. It lies to the south of the

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and north of the Eastgate neighborhoods. In the early 1900s, Japanese immigrants farmed the part of Lake Hills between present day Larsen Lake and Phantom Lake. This agricultural activity was abruptly curtailed following the

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in 1942, and was eventually replaced by suburban housing. Lake Hills was annexed into Bellevue in 1969. Today the Lake Hills neighborhood contains

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, th
Lake Hills Greenbelt Urban Demonstration Garden
(also known as th
Bellevue Demonstration Garden
, and Larsen Lake.

References

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