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Lake Contrary. For years, Clyde Weeks has been gathering memorabilia about Lake Contrary: cards, photographs, booklets, menus, fans, scraps of paper, pins and badges. Through his hard work, he has helped St. Joseph keep its memories of our history through good times and hard times.
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17 lip 2020 · Lake Contrary itself is one of the ox-bow lakes in Northwest Missouri. St. Joseph historian and author of “Lake Contrary: Days of Glory,” Clyde Weeks, noted how different Contrary was from...
26 cze 2024 · KQ2 visited the lake and learned more on what Buchanan County is planning on doing to restore it and why people are wanting the lake back. Several factors need to be considered before restoration of the lake begin, such as costs, the process, and demand.
28 cze 2020 · A lake for boating and fishing. Tons of room for picnicking. It’s hard to imagine such a wide range of recreational and entertainment activities at one site in St. Joseph.
The site is utilized by loons and grebes, cormorants, wading birds, swans and geese, diving and dabbling ducks, gulls and terns, and a variety of shorebirds during migration and nesting season. When the lake is high, several uncommon marsh birds may be found at the west end of the lake.
9 mar 2024 · From it’s development in the 1880’s by the light and power company as a means to selling more electricity to its closing as an amusement park in the early 1960s, Lake Contrary was a leisure center for gentry and working people.
