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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]
William W. Stow (September 13, 1824 – February 20, 1895) was an American politician and member the California State Assembly from the 3rd district between 1854 and 1857; he was Speaker in 1855. Blue Heron Lake in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco was formerly named Stow Lake after him.
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World is a book by Steven Berlin Johnson in which he describes the most intense outbreak of cholera in Victorian London and centers on John Snow and Henry Whitehead. [1] It was released on 19 October 2006 through Riverhead.
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]
Robert F. Schulkers (21 July 1890, Covington, Kentucky — 6 April 1972, Cincinnati, Ohio) was the author of a series of children's novels. [1] The 11 novels were published first between 1921 and 1932, although many appeared first in serialized form in The Cincinnati Enquirer and hundreds of other newspapers around the country.
Ghost, seal-hunting schooner in Jack London's The Sea-Wolf; Hispaniola, a schooner in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island; Kestrel, Revolutionary War privateering topsail schooner, Danelle Harmon's Captain of My Heart, My Lady Pirate, and Wicked at Heart
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 ...
During this time he heard about a pioneering settler in British Columbia named Ralph Edwards and spent 12 days in his remote cabin interviewing him for the book Crusoe of Lonesome Lake (1957) which became one of Stowe's most popular books. He taught at the university until he retired in 1970, after which he was a professor emeritus of ...