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A dam, built in 1962, to make Lake Jennings east of Lakeside in Quail Canyon. Chester (Chet) Harritt was the general manager of the Helix Irrigation District from 1926 to his death in 1948. Fetzer, Leland (2005).
Jennings Randolph Lake is a reservoir of 952 acres (3.85 km 2) located on the North Branch Potomac River in Garrett County, Maryland and Mineral County, West Virginia. It is approximately 8 miles (13 km) upstream of Bloomington, Maryland , and approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Elk Garden, West Virginia .
Lakeside was founded in 1886 when 6,600 acres of land surrounding the naturally occurring Lindo Lake were purchased by the El Cajon Valley Land Company, who immediately began to promote the new land as a town and built an 80-room Victorian-style inn, the Lakeside Hotel, at a cost of $50,000 (approximately $1,220,000 today [5]). Three years ...
Jennings is a city in, and the parish seat of, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana, United States, [3] near Lake Charles. The population was 10,383 at the 2010 census , a small decline from the 2000 tabulation.
Jennings Lake is a narrow meltwater lake, 3 nautical miles (6 km) long, at the foot of Jennings Promontory on the eastern margin of the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica.It was delineated by John H. Roscoe in 1952 from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946–47), and named by him in association with Jennings Promontory.
The Lake Charles–DeRidder combined statistical area is made up of four parishes in southwestern Louisiana. The statistical area consists of the Lake Charles Metropolitan Statistical Area and the DeRidder Micropolitan Statistical Area. The largest principal city is Lake Charles, and the smaller principal city is Jennings.
The township center is 7 miles (11 km) by road southwest of Lake City and the same distance northeast of the city of Cadillac. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the township has a total area of 36.04 square miles (93.34 km 2 ), of which 31.56 square miles (81.74 km 2 ) are land and 4.47 square miles (11.58 km 2 ), or 12.41%, are water.
Jennings County is the setting of the novel The Friendly Persuasion, later adapted into the Oscar-nominated film Friendly Persuasion in 1956. Although initially planned to be filmed on location, it was finally filmed in California.