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Lakeport State Park was established in 1938 as Port Huron State Park within one mile of the existing Saint Clair (County) State Park (now Burtchville Township Park) north of Lakeport. [1] Land acquisition continued into the 1940s and after a 1946 appropriation of $85,000 for initial improvements, the park (today's North Unit) was officially ...
Saint Clair (County) State Park – (1926–1949) 17 acres, former St. Clair County Park (1919–1926) gifted to the state; abandoned as a state park in 1949 due to the proximity of nearby Port Huron (Lakeport) State Park and given its small size; deeded to township and is now Burtchville Township Park. [14]
Lakeport is an incorporated city and the county seat of Lake County, California. [5] This city is 125 miles (201 km) northwest of Sacramento. Lakeport is on the western shore of Clear Lake, [7] at an elevation of 1,355 feet (413 m). [5] The population was 5,026 at the 2020 census, up from 4,753 at the 2010 census.
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The geologic history of the county shows events of great violence, such as the eruption of Mount Konocti and Mount St. Helena and the collapse of Cow Mountain, which created the hills around the county seat of Lakeport. Blue Lakes, Lake Pillsbury, and Indian Valley Reservoir are the county's other major bodies of water.
Lakeport State Park is adjacent to the community on three sides. North Lakeport is an unincorporated community approximately one mile north of Lakeport at 43°08′14″N 82°29′49″W / 43.13722°N 82.49694°W / 43.13722; -82.49694
The Port Huron Statement [1] is a 1962 political manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). [2] It was written by SDS members, and completed on June 15, 1962, at a United Auto Workers (UAW) retreat outside of Port Huron, Michigan (now part of Lakeport State Park), for the group's first national convention. [3]
The Old Lake County Courthouse, also known as Lake County Courthouse, in Lakeport, California is a building built in 1870. It served Lake County as a seat of government from 1871 until 1968. Precedent-setting trials on water rights were held here, along with the "White Cap" murder trial, a notorious episode in vigilantism held here in 1890.