Victory Heights, Seattle, Washington
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Victory Heights is a neighborhood in the Lake City
district of Seattle, Washington
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The neighborhood was named after the Victory Highway, which forms the eastern border of the area. The Victory Highway was originally called the Gerhart Erickson Road (Gerhart Erickson sponsored the Good Roads legislation in 1903), then Bothell Road, but was renamed the Victory Highway in 1924. The name later returned to Bothell Road, and is now Lake City Way NE. The neighborhood was annexed to the city of Seattle in 1954.
http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3449
http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~public/nmaps/html/NN-1045S.htm
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/lakecity/index.asp?page=2
Lake City, Seattle, Washington
Lake City is the northeast region of Seattle, centered along Lake City Way NE , 7–8 miles northeast of downtown. A broader definition of the Lake City area includes all the land between 15th Avenue NE and Lake Washington, and between NE 85th and 98th streets to the Seattle city limits at NE 145th...
district of Seattle, Washington
Seattle, Washington
Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...
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The neighborhood was named after the Victory Highway, which forms the eastern border of the area. The Victory Highway was originally called the Gerhart Erickson Road (Gerhart Erickson sponsored the Good Roads legislation in 1903), then Bothell Road, but was renamed the Victory Highway in 1924. The name later returned to Bothell Road, and is now Lake City Way NE. The neighborhood was annexed to the city of Seattle in 1954.
http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3449
http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~public/nmaps/html/NN-1045S.htm
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/lakecity/index.asp?page=2