Queens Lake History

Several of our members published a wonderful, 91 page, booklet about the evolution and history of our community.  You can read it here.

 

Authors Notes
This publication was initiated to research and record information about the Queens Lake residential community located in the Bruton District of York County to commemorate its 50th anniversary in 2002. We have chronicled the development of Queens Lake from its early days as a hunting and fishing preserve to a community of about five hundred homes. By tracing the evolution of the Queens Lake Club and the active participation of individual residents in projects to protect and improve our community, we have gained an appreciation for the early residents and a renewed commitment to sustaining our sense of community.

Through interviews or their own research, many individuals contributed recollections, documents and photographs that tell a story of a neighborhood whose residents have valued its natural beauty and have been committed to preserving its special character. Many friends and neighbors responded to our e-mails and telephone inquiries to help document events or unknown details. Club newsletters, newspaper articles, the minutes of the Board of Directors meetings and annual meetings of the Queens Lake Club were searched for additional details. The spirit of this document is to highlight and endorse the many positive qualities of our neighborhood and its residents.

Undoubtedly, there are many more episodes in the life of this community that could be described. Every attempt was made to be accurate. However, because a number of the accounts were derived from memories and could not be substantiated, some facts may not be absolutely correct or as others remember them.

We wish to thank each of those former and current residents who contributed to this project and the Board of Directors of the Queens Lake Community Association for authorizing this undertaking. We are especially indebted to Jim Carter who graciously allowed us to quote information from the Queens Lake history he has written of his personal experiences in developing Queens Lake over the years. Without his knowledge, this story could not have been written.

To Jean Fripp, our tireless editor, to Laura McCann, who did the layout, and to Carlton Abbott, who donated his time and resources and artistic talents to the project, we extend heartfelt thanks for taking our bare text and turning it into a book of which we can all be proud.

Linda Bowe, Nancy Dutro, and Joan Swanson
July 2006