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Lake Hiawatha is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) [5] located within Parsippany–Troy Hills Township in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [6] The U.S. Postal Service serves the community as ZIP Code 07034.
Lake Hiawatha from the playground on its eastern shore. Lake Hiawatha is located just north of Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was purchased by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board in 1922 for $550,000. At that time the lake was a marsh known as Rice Lake, but over four years, the park system transformed the wetland into a lake ...
From the 1730s until the beginning of the 19th century, present-day Parsippany was known as Lake Hiawatha, and included a 2,000-acre (3.125 mile) slave plantation. The central street of Lake Hiawatha, Beverwyck Road, references the name of a Dutch slave owner and property manager Lucas Von Beverhoudt. [34]
In 1911, Wilkinson Reservoir was re-contoured as a 17-acre (6.9 ha) man-made lake, and has since been known as Hiawatha Lake. [9] Hiawatha Lake in its early days as a community swimming pool in 1915. One side of Hiawatha Lake was filled back in and a modern swimming pool was built. In the winter, the lake freezes and local residents use it for ...
Friends of Lake Hiawatha, a neighborhood group focused on repairing the wildlife habitat around Lake Hiawatha, has been pulling plastic litter out of its lakeshore grasses for years. The group is ...
Phebe Ann Jacobs (July 1785 – February 28, 1850) was an American Congregationalist, laundress, and free woman.Best known for her posthumous biography Narrative of Phebe Ann Jacobs, Jacobs was born into slavery on the Beverwyck plantation in Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey.
Hiawatha and the Iroquois league. ISBN 0-382-09568-5 ISBN 9780382095689 ISBN 0-382-09757-2 ISBN 9780382097577; Malkus, Alida (1963). There really was a Hiawatha. St. John, Natalie and Mildred Mellor Bateson (1928). Romans of the West: untold but true story of Hiawatha. Taylor, C. J. (2004). Peace walker: the legend of Hiawatha and Tekanawita.
Morris County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey, about 30 mi (48 km) west of New York City.According to the 2020 census, the county was the state's tenth-most populous county, [3] with a population of 509,285, [4] [5] its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 17,009 (+3.5%) from the 2010 census count of 492,276, [6] which in turn reflected an increase of 22,064 (+11 ...