Lake Hills is a neighborhood in

Bellevue, Washington Bellevue ( ) is a city in the Eastside (King County, Washington), Eastside region of King County, Washington, United States, located across Lake Washington from Seattle. It is the third-largest city in the Seattle metropolitan area, and the f ...

. 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

Japanese American Internment During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), mostly in the western interior of the country. Abou ...

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.

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Neighborhoods in Bellevue, Washington {{KingCountyWA-geo-stub