There is a small lake two blocks west of Baptist Hospital that may be Butcher Pen Pond alias Lake Ruby. There are today only two lakes in West Pensacola maps. The other is just east of I-110 near W. Lakeview. Neither are named on the maps I have. Jerry [email protected] wrote: > It is in Vital Records of Pensacola, Fla., Volume 3, on page xi. Thanks to > Judy Jolly's prompting. > > Butcher Pen Pond: > > Also called "Fielding's Butcher Pen Pond." In West Pensacola located near > (north and south) of Cervantes Street. Later called "Lake Ruby"? > > That does not give the precise location but the name Fielding or Lake Ruby > may give someone a clue. > > Jacqueline </HTML> > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > >

Just west of the Baptist Hospital was Kupfrian's Park. It had a lake. I'm not sure if the water that is there now was part of it. It looks more like a drainage ditch, but maybe it's a lake. Cynthia

Hi, I did a google search for butcher pen pond Pensacola and this is what I found. Cattle Dipping Vats in Florida From the 1910's through the 1950's, these vats were filled with an arsenic solution for the control and eradication of the cattle fever tick. Other pesticides such as DDT where also widely used. By State law, all cattle, horses, mules, goats, and other susceptible animals were required to be dipped every 14 days. Under certain circumstances, the arsenic and other pesticides remaining at the site may present an environmental or public health hazard. See listing by county of known cattle dip vats. Pensacola Dairy had one of those vats(pond?). Butcher pen may have been where they butchered the cattle and the pond was where they dipped the cattle. Thanks, John Rosique Cynthia Dean wrote: > Just west of the Baptist Hospital was Kupfrian's Park. It had a lake. > I'm not sure if the water that is there now was part of it. It looks > more like a drainage ditch, but maybe it's a lake. > > Cynthia > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

When I moved to Wright (near Ft. Walton) in 1955, (of course I was just a child, then), we found evidence of some large cement cisterns on the 17 acre "plot" that came with the house. During the 1940's, there was a dairy farm* at that site; in fact the Silas Gibson family had settled that land in about 1916*, I believe. The dairy farm was of such importance that the government waived military duty for the owners. I had always wondered what the cisterns were for and never thought to ask anyone, but now I wonder if they were for dipping. I will go to this site and see if the place in Wright is listed. Interestingly enough, I was diagnosed for Non-Hodgkins lymphoma. One of the first questions I was asked was whether I had ever been around any chemicals. I said "No, I don't think so"! * Page 222, story of Leonard Ray Gibson, Okaloosa Heritage Book, Vol. I **Page 223, story of Silas Gibson, Okaloosa Heritage Book, Volume I Margaret Hill Harris >> >> >>------------------------------- >>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 > >