Lake and County Park
In 1942, the Margaret Coleman Buckingham sold the Speedwell property, and surrounding 1,000 acres (4.0 km2), to Gerald and Kathryn Darlington. In the 1960s, Pennsylvania state purchased about 500 acres (2.0 km2) along Hammer Creek and dammed it, creating Speedwell Forge Lake. In the 1990s, Lancaster County purchased about 300 acres (1.2 km2) also along Hammer Creek, and created the Speedwell Forge County Park.
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Famous quotes containing the words lake, county and/or park:
“What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone! None of your half-mile swamps, none of your mile-wide woods merely, as on the skirts of our towns, without hotels, only a dark mountain or a lake for guide-board and station, over ground much of it impassable in summer!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I’d bet I wouldn’t lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.”
—Berkeley Breathed (b. 1957)
“The park is filled with night and fog,
The veils are drawn about the world,”
—Sara Teasdale (1884–1933)