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Rockaway Beach is located on the north shore of Lake Taneycomo and the White River. Forsyth is approximately three miles to the southeast on Missouri Route 176. [9]According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.69 square miles (1.79 km 2), of which 0.61 square miles (1.58 km 2) is land and 0.08 square miles (0.21 km 2) is water.
In the 1920s and 1930s, tourists began to be drawn to the lake and its nearby communities, Branson and Rockaway Beach. Water skiing, boating, fishing, sunning and swimming drew folks to the warm waters of Lake Taneycomo. Restaurants, lodging and amusement attractions such as bumper cars and skee ball were plentiful in the towns along the lake. [4]
Taney County is a county in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri.As of the 2020 census, the population was 56,066. [1] Its county seat is Forsyth. [2] It is included in the Branson Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Prior to 1847, Rockaway Catholics had to journey to Jamaica, Queens, to attend Mass. In 1884, the Rev. Anthony Farley of St. Monica's Church, Jamaica, was delegated to celebrate one Mass on Sundays. In that year Mass was celebrated at various places in Rockaway Beach – first at Datz's Hotel, then at Curley's Hotel and then at an old school house.
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The Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk is a public park in Rockaway, Queens, New York, composed of the 170-acre (69 ha) Rockaway Beach and the adjacent 5.5-mile (8.9 km) Rockaway Boardwalk. The beach runs from Beach 9th Street in Far Rockaway to Beach 149th Street in Neponsit , a distance of 7 miles (11 km).
Merriam Woods is located along U.S. Route 160 and Missouri Route 176 approximately two miles north-northwest of Rockaway Beach and Lake Taneycomo. [6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.60 square miles (4.14 km 2), all land. [7]
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