[Early History]-[1774-1860]-[Civil War - 1889]-[1890-1913]
[WWI-1938]-[WWII-1974]-[1975-1990]-[1991-2005]-[2006-2020]
[1991 - 2005]
The Bellevue Botanical Garden opened in 1992
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From 1992 to 2007, the Spirit of Washington Dinner Train used the Wilburton trestle as it ran back and forth between the depot in Renton and the Columbia Winery in Woodinville.
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The last section of Interstate 90 (originally Sunset Highway)
in Washington was converted to a freeway in 1992,
when the Bellevue to Seattle portion was completed.
and 410-seat theater, opens at NE 6th st and 112th Ave NE.
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In 1996, residential Broadband Cable Internet is introduced,
faster than Dial-Up modem speeds.
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By 1997, Yoshio (John) Matsuoka was the last
Japanese-American Farmer left in Bellevue,
still working his farm and growing food.
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Harriet Shorts, wife of Calhoun, benefactors of the Bellevue Botanical Gardens land, died Jan. 2nd 1997 at Pacific Regent Retirement Condominiums in Bellevue of complications of a stroke. She was 83. Mrs. Shorts was born in 1913 in Spokane, where her father, Aubrey White, wrote a garden column for The Spokesman-Review.
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May 21, 1998 See the Interview with Japanese-Americans
born and raised in Bellevue in early 1900-1922
http://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/ddr-densho-1000-23-transcript-a0c507f300.htm
Densho Visual History Collection: Tokio Hirotaka (age 88 "born in Vue Crest" - Toshio Ito "age 76 "born 1922 October 23rd in Highland area of Bellevue, that time it was known as Peterson Hill. Now Glendale Golf Course. and lower end Kelsey Creek " - Joe Matsuzawa (age 85) Interview
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1999 - City of Bellevue engineers dissipating water energy from a channel's 1,000-foot-long end point of an eroded chasm-drop from ~300 feet in elevation as it cuts through the middle of Weowna Park, an 80-acre tract of second-growth forest on the western shore of Lake Sammamish.
In June a crew of Washington loggers set up and began building a series of 16 "x-weirs" that act as funnels, slowing water and directing it away from the channel's banks. The mouth of the canyon, created by a 22-foot-waterfall, was lined with a foot-thick layer of reinforced concrete, plus a cosmetic layer embedded with stream debris and blended to match the striated glacial till. To absorb the shock of churning water, workers piled boulders up to four feet in diameter at the base of the waterfall and at another waterfall in a ravine farther down the channel. Finally, they constructed a sedimentation pond to trap silt. That pond will gradually backfill the channel, reversing the destruction wrought by Thode once and for all.
Weowna Park's name is a pun--"We own a park". Encouraged nearby residents of the Park, Bellevue acquired the land to save it from development. The irony of relying on clearcutting machinery and loggers to restore an ecosystem was not lost.
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[2000] - [2005] A Modern City with Modern Problems
On March 26, 2000, the Kingdome was demolished to make room for CenturyLink Field.
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Bellevue High School Class of 2000 worked with the City to rename the road leading up to the school from Kilmarnock to Wolverine Way.
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Takeo Tom Matsuoka died March 9, 2001, in Vancouver. He was 97. His wife, Kazue, died in 1986. Mr. Matsuoka was born Aug. 1, 1903, in Hawaii. Matsuoka was a "kibei" -- American-born (in 1903) and thus a citizen like most Nisei, but one who returned to Japan at an early age and was educated there, then came back to the United States (in 1919) and remained as a citizen.
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During 2002, the newly expanded downtown Bellevue Transit Center (BTC) “reopens” with 12 bays.
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In February, 2002, the voters of the Bellevue School District approved the sale of $324 million dollars in Unlimited General Obligation Bonds with a 73% approval rate.
This approval allowed the District to demolish and re-build eleven of its sixteen elementary schools; significantly modernize two of the four District high schools; add performing arts centers at the two other high schools; and provide science room or performing arts areas at the middle schools.
As a result, between 1993 and 2013 all of the District school facilities will be renewed.
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October 31st 2003 Cano Numoto passed away.
His wife Miyo (nee Kawase) passed October 10th, 2014
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Chief Leschi of the Nisqually Indian Tribe of southern Puget Sound, Washington,
was exonerated in 2004, by a Historical Court of Inquiry of Washington State,
following a resolution by both houses of the legislature
asking the State Supreme Court to vacate his conviction.
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Because only the state can charter counties,
the King County name change was not made official until April 19, 2005,
when Governor Christine Gregoire signed the bill.
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