Geauga Lake (lake)
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Geauga Lake | |
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Location | Portage County, Ohio |
Coordinates | 41°21′00″N 81°22′41″W / 41.3500°N 81.3780°W |
Type | lake |
Geauga Lake (
History
First known as Picnic Lake, the Geauga lake area was home to early settlers such as the Staffords, Mark Patterson, Capt. Simon Henry with his wife Rhoda Parsons and their children, Charles Swires, the Brewsters, and Bohan Blair. There is currently a city park and ballfields on East Blvd. in Aurora, named after this lake. Geauga Lake is situated in lot twenty-eight, tract three, and is the head water of Tinker's Creek which empties into Cuyahoga River. The waters of this lake are very pure and of great depth.
Sullivan Giles, who chose the lake area for his log cabin in 1817, later built a large frame home on the spot behind Geauga Lake depot on the north side of the lake. When the railroad came to town in 1856, it made a stop at "pond station".[1][2][3]
Giles took advantage of the scenic lake location and established an amusement park – later known as simply
On a bluff on the southeast side of the lake in 1888, the 75-room Kent House Hotel (later known as Hotel Grace) was built and operated by Alexander G. Kent. He presided over one of the finest
Three professional baseball games were played at the park on Sundays (plus a Thursday exhibition game) in July and August 1888, by the
References
- ^ Railroad Depots of Northeast Ohio Page 37 Mark J. Camp - 2007 "Erie's first depot at Geauga Lake, photographed around 1912, ... O, later Erie, trains could proceed to the gates of the Geauga Lake Resort and Encampment. The resort drew huge crowds in the 1880s and 1890s."
- ^ Portage heritage: a history of Portage County, Ohio James B. Holm, Lucille Dudley - 1957 "Early settlers of Geauga Lake (Picnic Lake — an early name) and its environs were Sullivan Giles, the Staf- fords, Mark Patterson, Captain Henry, Charles Squires, the Brewsters, and Bohan Blair. Geauga Lake was known as "Pond Station" ..."
- ^ The Diary of James A. Garfield: 1875-1877 James Abram Garfield, Harry James Brown, Frederick D. Williams - 1983 "Spent most of the day in writing letters and bringing up back work — until five PM when Crete, Jimmie, Irvin and I went to Garrettsville and took the train for Geauga Lake (late Pond Station). Burke Hinsdale was with us, and we stopped ..."