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During World War II, the lake's eastern shore was the site of Marine Corps Air Station Eagle Mountain Lake, a military installation built to house the military's glider program. In 1965, the Tarrant Regional Water District voters approved a bond issue to allow the District to install improved controlled spillways.
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.
The Star Telegram got an exclusive tour of the site of the old Eagle Mountain Lake base. Dec. 4, 1942: Marine Air Station at Eagle Mountain Lake. Eagle Mountain Lake circa 1942.
12516 Lake Shore CT N in the Resort at Eagle Mountain Lake. You can see boat docs behind the house in the private canal. The home is a 5,534-square-foot two-story home at 12516 Lake Shore CT N.
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Eagle Mountain is a ghost town in the California desert in Riverside County founded in 1948 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser. The town is located at the entrance of the now-defunct Eagle Mountain iron mine, once owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad , then Kaiser Steel , and located on the southeastern corner of Joshua Tree National Park .
The extensive grounds, surrounding both Eagle Lake and Utowana Lake, belonged to adventure writer Ned Buntline in 1867 and a 2000-acre parcel owned by William West Durant in 1888, [2] before being purchased by mining magnate Berthold Hochschild in 1904. [3]
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