In 1890 Danish couple Ove Peter Larsen and Anna Mary Larsen homesteaded in the area now known as Larsen Lake Farm (also known as Blueberry Lake), harvesting wild blue huckleberries and cranberries from the surrounding wetlands. Ove worked at the Newcastle coal mines; Newcastle-Coal Creek was a coal mining town in south King County established ~1870's after coal was discovered along Coal Creek in 1863.
The Larsen house stood where a K-Mart was built (and later became Walmart).
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