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The tributaries of Eagle Lake (beginning in the lake's north end and going clockwise) are Cleghorn Creek, Papoose Creek, Merrill Creek, and Pine Creek. Pine Creek is the main tributary of Eagle Lake and is 39 miles (63 km) long. [7] Now an intermittent stream; only the upper 6.8 miles (10.9 km) of Pine Creek has perennial flow. [8]
A circle of Eagle Lake businessmen and farmers applied for and received a charter for the Cane Belt Railroad on March 10, 1898. The area was a major producer of sugarcane and the railroad was desired to ship sugar and other local crops to market.
The Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad was a forest railway built to transfer pulpwood between drainage basins in the Maine North Woods. The railroad operated only a few years in a location so remote the steam locomotives were never scrapped and remain exposed to the elements at the site of the Eagle Lake Tramway .
Dec. 4, 1942: Marine Air Station at Eagle Mountain Lake. Eagle Mountain Lake circa 1942 It was big news in Fort Worth when the military announced its plans for Eagle Mountain Lake.
In 1942, 2,931 acres (11.9 km 2) of former ranch land were purchased on the eastern shore of Eagle Mountain Lake so the Marine Corps could set up glider operations. [3] When it was announced to the public on 23 June 1942, the base was touted as the first of its kind, and was designed to house 500 officers, 1,500 trainees, and 1,000 enlisted troops.
Eagle Lake is located within the Central Florida Highlands area of the Atlantic coastal plain, with a terrain consisting of flatland interspersed with gently rolling hills. [ 7 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 1.4 square miles (3.6 km 2 ), of which 1.4 square miles (3.6 km 2 ) is land and 0.1 square ...
The Eagle Lake Tramway is a historic timber-transport mechanism in the remote North Maine Woods in northeastern USA. [2] The tramway, built in 1902 and operated until 1907, transported timber across a neck of land between Eagle Lake and Chamberlain Lake, with one end eventually becoming the eastern terminus of the Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad in 1927.
Oct. 5—MANKATO — An Eagle Lake woman is accused of helping a man hide from police in relation to his recent fleeing, property damage and predatory offender charges. Alexiss Nicole Dashem, 25 ...