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Lake Springfield in Illinois: Public Works and Community Design in the Mid-Twentieth Century
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Lake Springfield in Illinois: Public Works and Community Design in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Current price: $23.99
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Lake Springfield in Illinois: Public Works and Community Design in the Mid-Twentieth Century
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The vision for Lake Springfield included much more than a source of drinking water and power for the city of Springfield. During a nationwide depression, city planners and engineers thoughtfully created a unique municipal, recreational, and residential community along the new shores. Parks, beach houses, numerous organizational clubs, scouting camps for children, a memorial garden, a nature preserve, an outdoor theater, and even a public zoo soon skirted the 4000-acre lake. Now, eighty-five years after its construction, Lake Springfield is a community with its own rich history.