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Gardner Lake State Park is a small 9.75-acre (3.95 ha) Connecticut state park located on the south portion of the lake and provides access for fishing, swimming, and boating on the lake. [4] Added to the state park list in 2001, it expected to be open around 2002 and serves as one of the few public inland swimming areas in the New London County ...
Gardner Lake is a body of water in Washington County, Maine. It is bordered by Whiting, East Machias and Marion Township. The lake has a surface area of 3,720 acres and a maximum depth of 56 feet. On June 19, 1936, twelve schoolchildren from nearby Lubec, Maine drowned in the lake after their boat capsized. [2]
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Writers working for the WPA in the 1930s described Minnie Island as "a pine-grown knoll rising from the lake's depths." [8] It has a steep shoreline with gray outcropped ledges that offers few opportunities for docking. [4] It rises approximately sixteen feet from the surface of Gardner Lake which lies at an elevation of 381 feet (116 m). [9]
Abbie Gardner-Sharp (1843 – January 17, 1921) [1] was born in 1843 in New York State to Rowland Gardner and Frances M. Smith. She was the third of four children – Mary M., Eliza M., Abigail and Rowland, youngest child and only son.
The Abbie Gardner Sharp Cabin, also known as the Spirit Lake Massacre Log Cabin, where Gardner lived as a girl and which she later ran as a tourist attraction, still stands at Arnolds Park, Iowa. The state Conservation Commission purchased the cabin in 1941 and transferred it to the State Historical Society of Iowa in 1974.
Ellen Biddle Shipman (née Ellen Biddle; November 5, 1869 – March 27, 1950) was an American landscape architect known for her formal gardens and lush planting style. . Along with Beatrix Farrand and Marian Cruger Coffin, she dictated the style of the time and strongly influenced landscape design as a member of the first generation to break into the largely male occup
Susan Leigh Smith (née Vaughan; born September 26, 1971) is an American woman who was convicted of murdering her two sons, three-year-old Michael and one-year-old Alexander, in 1994 by strapping her children in their car seats, and rolling her car containing her two children into John D. Long Lake in South Carolina.