On August 8, 2024, two Graziani descendants visited what is now the Clark Lake Community Center. For one-hundred years, this cottage, built by Benjamin Graziani, watched over the lake from Kentucky Point, until it was floated down the lake in 1997 to where it now...
Twenty-seven years ago big things were taking place at Clark Lake. Crews were mounting the Graziani cottage on a barge where it would soon be floated to its new forever home in the County Park at the east end. A news hand-out titled “Spirt of the Lakes,”...
Old maps can open portals to the past. Notations, icons and omissions give clues to solving history mysteries – or create more questions. Walt Reed’s family reaches back generations at Clark Lake. Over the years, he has helped shed light on the...
by Walter Reed In her story of the Graziani family’s discovery of Clark’s Lake and the history of the family at Kentucky point, Carlotta Graziani Wilson tells that the family came to Clark’s Lake in July 1896 to spend the summer at the Pleasant View hotel. However,...
Every so often, a tidbit, or factoid, from Clark Lake’s past comes to light. Often there is not much context available, but nonetheless it’s interesting to learn about. Once a factoid is published, it may jostle memories that could add to the...
by Ted Ligibel Ninety years is a milestone to be sure. When it happens in a family, especially a Clark Lake family, you just know it has to be big, celebratory, and lake-centered, especially for someone who had spent every summer and fall of her life at...
by Bill Leutz Recently a friend, Diana Ganiard Potts, shared a few pictures and memories of Cement City with me. Many of us, that knew life at Clark’s Lake in the 1940s and 1950s, recall the fine grit that filtered down unto everything whenever south or southwest...
Photos of Clark Lake abound. Hidden behind some of them are special stories. When this happens, uncovering what lurks below the surface enhances what the eye sees. Ron and Beth June live on Lakeview West near the Eagle Point Road...
Water level at Clark Lake has always been a topic of interest. While the dam at Ocean Beach prevents dramatic drops, it’s rain, snow and Clark Lake’s many springs that replenish the lake. In the last 70 years, one summer stands out for its low...
by Sue Seeger Wiemer When my aunt Suzanne Seeger Donnell was a student at the University of Toledo, she took an art class. One of her assignments was to paint what she did last summer. So, she painted a watercolor of her favorite things at Clark Lake from the...
Recently, a viewer sent this comment to the website: “I returned to Clark Lake after 45 or so years, boy was I surprised and disappointed. Clark Lake was a quiet and enjoyable, now it is over built and populated and commercialized, It just broke my heart....
Was there ever an organization called the Eagle Point Chamber of Commerce? The letter below suggests that it existed, but perhaps only in jest. This letter is addressed to Ed Schill in which he is lauded for “gallant destruction of worm nests in a...