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The Life of Twin Ponds

No lake appears on a map of 1852, but the creation of a pond was authorized in 1861, and there is reference in 1862 to the "Lake of the Woods," probably the "Sylvan Lake" illustrated in the Cemetery book of 1873. In 1862 there is mention of a bridge "between the lakes,"where according to the 1910 Cemetery book there was also a waterfall. A map shows that around 1865 the Cemetery had five lakes in various places, and the lakes with the bridges and waterfall were probably two in the present Sections 41 and 27. The1873 photograph shows an impressive Gothic monument at one lakes end, not present today. At one time, too, there was a lake in Section 53.The upper lakes became polluted and were filled, but a "new" lake, not fully landscaped, went in on an older lake site around 1910. A lake in the map of the 1860s seems to correspond to one of the present Section14 lakes. These were given extensive restoration in the 1980s.

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