Here’s a verdant snapshot. What is it and where is it? Send your best guess – plus hometown and name – to: feedback@statehousereport.com.
Last week’s photo, “Placid picture,” was an overhead view of a spillway and bridge at Gibson Pond Park in Lexington.
Hats off to four sleuths who identified it: George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Jay Altman of Columbia; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; and Frank Bouknight of Summerville.
Peel wrote the area around the park had gristmills and sawmills in the 1800s, later becoming a private resort in the mid-20th century.
“An earthen dam crossing the Twelve Mile Creek was originally built in 1930 to create the pond. However during a “1,000-year flood” in 2015, the dam failed and caused the pond to drain completely. In 2021, the city of Lexington, which had purchased the property in 2007, rebuilt the dam … and added the prefabricated truss pedestrian bridge, thereby restoring the pond and reopening Gibson Pond Park to the public in August 2021.”
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