Thank you! You folks are always so helpful. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl & Martha Thomas" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:51 PM Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] The Lake by Lakeshore Drive > 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 >