you better believe it, who were your neighbors and what was your parents names and where did they work and when were they born and when were you born and maybe one of your cousins is somebody else's 'lost relative'. ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Roberts" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 4:36 PM Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] The Lake by Lakeshore Drive |I grew up on the south end of Jefferson county myself....is that important? | | Carl & Martha Thomas wrote: | | >At 03:37 PM 10/19/2006, you wrote: | > | > | >>I may be older than dirt too, but my mother told many tales about the | >>lake that was beside Lakeshore Drive in what is now Homewood. I don't | >>remember the actual name of it, but I do know that all that area across | >> | >> | >>from Samford formed a lake. The streetcar went out there from town and | > | > | >>it was sort of a resort. I think the library has some pictures of it | >>online. She talked about going out there to swim on the streetcar as a | >>young person. Later she and my father moved to Homewood rather near the | >>lake. I'd like to know when it was drained. Interestingly my mother's | >>sister recently lived in a townhouse which is on what was the bed of | >>the lake (as I understand it's position). | >> | >> | > | >I grew up in Birmingham. My recollection is that the lake was | >Edgewood Lake ... but as with the Hillman Hotel query, I might have | >that wrong. Perhaps others can confirm or correct. | > | >Yes, the Samford University campus is across from the old lake | >location. Originally Samford was known as Howard | >College, and the old original campus was out in an East Lake | >location. The old Howard College {Hard College} and the newer | >Samford University are Baptist affiliated. Also, Samford has very | >good genealogy resources .... probably related to their library in some way. | > | >I have a number of very old photos from ca. 1920 of BRL&P employees | >at the lake on picnics and swimming parties. My mother was one of | >them. Would be happy to share those photos, but I don't know how to | >post them to rootsweb anywhere, and I think they are not accepted | >as attachments to notes such as this. | > | >Carl, in Knoxville, Tennessee | > | > | >------------------------------- | >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message | > | > | > | | | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message