Lake Winnepesaukah Amusement Park - Paperback
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Lake Winnepesaukah Amusement Park
Lake Winnepesaukah has played an important role in the region's history for centuries.
The lake was constructed by the Indigenous peoples, who built a narrow earthen dam at the head of several hundred springs, creating the six-acre lake. It later became a gristmill used by area farmers for grinding corn into meal. During the Civil War, the lake was contended for and subsequently became the...
Notable in its 100-year history is that for the vast majority of those years, Lake Winnepesaukah Amusement Park has been operated by the female members of each successive generation. The family kept an abundance of history of the park, from mementos and records to pictures and oral narratives handed down, and the stories have been kept and cherished and are now shared. Tennyson Dickinson,...
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