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14-Dec-04
San Antonio Texas lighthouse. This lighthouse is located in the middle of a lake in downtown San Antonio. The park history follows:
Woodlawn Lake Park History
1103 Cincinnati
Woodlawn Lake was the dream of real estate developers in the 1880s who wanted to build West End, a residential subdivision on San Antonio's rural west side. It was George W. Russ, president of the Rhode Island-based West End Town Company, who saw great potential in the flat pasture on Alazan Creek and made the dream come true. To attract residents, the creek was dammed to create West End Lake, which some reports say was as large as 80 acres. (Today it is about 30 acres.)
Visitors traveled by streetcar to enjoy the finest artificial lake in the south. Electric lights (still new at that time) illuminated the lake where visitors danced in an outdoor pavilion and rowed in small boats. In later years there were outdoor movies and vaudeville acts. The lake and surrounding land were privately owned until 1918 when they were deeded to the City of San Antonio. The name was changed to Woodlawn Lake and many improvements and additions have been made to the 62-acre park. Today, after more than 125 years, Woodlawn Lake remains a popular gathering spot for visitors from throughout San Antonio.
Woodlawn Lake Park offers a relaxing park atmosphere with some amenities that may be rented and others that are available to the public, first come first serve. While the pavilion and party house can be rented, the playscape, and the jogging/waking trail are open to the public. The asphalt trail, popular with area residents, is 1.33 miles long
Woodlawn Lake Park History
1103 Cincinnati
Woodlawn Lake was the dream of real estate developers in the 1880s who wanted to build West End, a residential subdivision on San Antonio's rural west side. It was George W. Russ, president of the Rhode Island-based West End Town Company, who saw great potential in the flat pasture on Alazan Creek and made the dream come true. To attract residents, the creek was dammed to create West End Lake, which some reports say was as large as 80 acres. (Today it is about 30 acres.)
Visitors traveled by streetcar to enjoy the finest artificial lake in the south. Electric lights (still new at that time) illuminated the lake where visitors danced in an outdoor pavilion and rowed in small boats. In later years there were outdoor movies and vaudeville acts. The lake and surrounding land were privately owned until 1918 when they were deeded to the City of San Antonio. The name was changed to Woodlawn Lake and many improvements and additions have been made to the 62-acre park. Today, after more than 125 years, Woodlawn Lake remains a popular gathering spot for visitors from throughout San Antonio.
Woodlawn Lake Park offers a relaxing park atmosphere with some amenities that may be rented and others that are available to the public, first come first serve. While the pavilion and party house can be rented, the playscape, and the jogging/waking trail are open to the public. The asphalt trail, popular with area residents, is 1.33 miles long
27-Mar-03
Ok time for a lifesaving dam in San Antonio TX. This one is called the Olmos Diversion Dam. In heavy rains (we have had as much as 18 inches in one day and over 30 inches in a week) this dam holds back the flood waters just above the city of San Antonio. It was built in 1926 and is concrete. On the downstream side the concrete is about 40 feet tall and the span is about 300 yards. Thanks for the stop and visit to learn more about this dam.
[last edit: 3/27/2003 6:29:24 PM PST]
[last edit: 3/27/2003 6:29:24 PM PST]
