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In 2024, Stow Lake Boathouse, alongside Stow Lake and Stow Lake Drive, were officially renamed to remove mention of their namesake, former Speaker of the California State Assembly William W. Stow, due to his anti-Semitic views. The new name, "Blue Heron Lake," references the indigenous birds often found nesting by the lake. [2]
The Presbyterian Mission House in Chinatown served as a safe house for these women, and the young Donaldina Cameron helped more than 3,000 girls and women escape this brutal fate over the course ...
Former Chicago Historical Society Building is said to be haunted since its use as a temporary morgue for victims of the Eastland Disaster (1915). [57] Former Anna State Hospital a Kirkbride Plan hospital in Anna. [58] Crenshaw House in Equality. The house was constructed in the 1830s as a station on the Reverse Underground Railroad.
The lake was originally named for William W. Stow, a known anti-Semite, [78] who gave $60,000 for its construction. Strawberry Hills' waterfall was named Huntington Falls after its benefactor Collis P. Huntington. Blue Heron Lake was the first artificial lake constructed in the park and Huntington was the park's first artificial waterfall. [79]
The story behind Erebus Haunted House in Pontiac makes guests come back for more nightmare fuel. Dr. J. Colbert built the world’s first working time machine in the area, but it malfunctioned and ...
Here are the opening dates for Land of Illusion, Dent Schoolhouse, Brimstone Haunt, USS Nightmare, Halloween Haunt and more spooky sights.
The Stow House was once the headquarters of Rancho La Patera, on the original Rancho La Goleta.In 1871, William Whitney Stow, a legal counsel for Southern Pacific Railroad in San Francisco, purchased 1,043 acres (4.22 km 2) costing $28,677 for his son, Sherman P. Stow. Sherman Stow built a Carpenter Gothic Victorian home on the site and moved into the house with his bride, Ida G. Hollister, in ...
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