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Conneaut Lake Borough, Exploring Pennsylvania Boroughs

To appreciate fully the recreational possibilities in Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania, one should recall the Ice Age. Near the end of the Pleistocene epoch, thousands of years ago, the lake was formed by a large block of ice that melted and filled in a depression in the land. Down the street from the lake, a reminder of Conneaut Lake’s prehistoric origins can be found at the Conneaut Lake Historical Society Museum. Visitors can view the fossilized remains of a woolly mammoth plucked from the lake in 1958. An ancestor of the elephant, the creature lived about 10,000 years ago. Humans made their mark on local history, too, as Iroquois Indians enjoyed the benefits of abundant fish and wildlife at Conneaut Lake. More recently, its deep, cold waters allowed the lake to remain frozen late into spring, which made it a vital source of ie before the advent of mechanical refrigeration. An annual festival at Conneaut Lake celebrates this chapter in the borough's history. A few yards away, a coffee shop on a busy main street gives visitors and residents a commanding view of the lake. For the young at heart, to the north, is Conneaut Lake Park, which has a long history of fun attractions.

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00:11 - EXPLORING PENNSYLVANIA

00:12 - BOROUGHS IS PAID FOR IN PART BY

00:14 - THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE

00:16 - ASSOCIATION OF BOROUGHS.

00:25 - WELCOME TO THIS EDITION OF EXPLORING

00:26 - PENNSYLVANIA BOROUGHS. I'M CHRIS

00:28 - CAP EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THE

00:29 - PENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSOCIATION

00:30 - OF BOROUGHS EACH MONTH VISIT

00:32 - COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE STATE

00:33 - ABOUT THE HISTORY CULTURE IN

00:34 - PROGRESS TAKING PLACE. TODAY

00:37 - WE EXPLORE CONNEAUT LAKE BOROUGH, IN

00:38 - CRAWFORD COUNTY. THIS DYNAMIC

00:40 - COMMUNITY PARALLELS THE

00:41 - SOUTHWEST SHORE QUIETLY.

00:43 - THE LARGEST NATURAL LAKE IN PENNSYLVANIA.

00:46 - TOURISTS AND RESIDENTS ALIKE

00:47 - ARE DRAWN TO NEWLY RESTORED

00:48 - FIREMAN'S BEACH AND I CELLS

00:49 - PARK WHICH PLAY HOST NUMEROUS

00:51 - COMMUNITY EVENTS.

00:53 - WE HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS TOUR OF

00:54 - ONE OF PENNSYLVANIA'S MANY

00:55 - GREAT OR COMMUNITIES.

00:59 - I WANT YOU TO HAMPTON

01:00 - EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR THE

01:01 - CRAWFORD COUNTY CONVENTION AND

01:03 - VISITORS BUREAU AND WHERE IS

01:05 - CONNEAUT LAKE PEARL.

01:06 - CONNEAUT LAKE IS NESTLED IN

01:09 - NORTHWEST, PENNSYLVANIA.

01:11 - A BEAUTIFUL CHARMING TOWN AND

01:13 - WHAT IS THERE. WE HAVE SO MANY

01:15 - THINGS TO OFFER IN THE BOROUGH.

01:17 - BUT THE INTERESTING THING ABOUT

01:19 - THE COUNTY FOR ALL IS COMING

01:21 - APRIL IS WHERE IT IS LOCATED.

01:23 - IT IS LOCATED ON HISTORIC RATE

01:25 - 6 WHICH IS THE GRAND ARMY OF

01:27 - THE REPUBLIC. IT IS ALSO THE 12

01:30 - HERITAGE PARK FOR THE STATE OF

01:31 - PENNSYLVANIA. IT IS ALSO CRAWFORD LAKE LENS

01:35 - SCENIC BYWAY AND IT IS A

01:37 - HERITAGE COMMUNITY. SO

01:40 - YOU AS YOU CAN SEE TOURISM IS A

01:42 - PLAYS A VERY HUGE ROLE HERE IN

01:44 - THIS CONNEAUT LAKE RESORT AREA

01:47 - AND CONNEAUT LAKE BOROUGH TOURISM

01:49 - EACH YEAR BRINGS IN HUNDREDS OF

01:52 - THOUSANDS OF VISITORS TO THIS

01:53 - BEAUTIFUL RESORT AREA. AND

01:56 - THEY'RE CHARMING TOWN. THE

01:58 - CHILD WILL TELL HAS WELCOMED

01:59 - THE SHOPS, COFFEE SHOPS WHERE

02:02 - YOU CAN GO IN THE MORNING TO

02:03 - GRAB A CUP OF COFFEE WITH YOUR

02:05 - FRIENDS. AND YOU THE LAKE.

02:07 - NO MOTIVE THAT THERE'S

02:08 - LAKEFRONT DYING WHERE THEY HAVE

02:10 - ENTERTAINMENT IN MUSIC'S

02:12 - OUTSIDE. SO YOU CAN SIT AND

02:13 - HAVE A PERFECT VIEW OF THE

02:15 - LAKE. IT ALSO HAS WINERIES

02:17 - DISTILLERY WHERE THEY CAN DO

02:19 - TOURS AND WINE TASTING FOR YOU.

02:21 - COUNTY LAKE IS NOT ONLY

02:23 - HISTORICALLY THAT IS ALSO

02:25 - ONE OF THE LARGEST GLACIER

02:27 - LAKES IN THE STATE OF

02:28 - PENNSYLVANIA. IT HOLDS TO STATE

02:31 - OFFICIAL RECORDS WITH

02:32 - SANDY BEACHES. IT HAS KAYAKING

02:35 - BOAT LAUNCHES IT HAS BOAT

02:37 - RENTALS IT HAS FOR YOU

02:39 - ACTIVITIES. AROUND THE LATE.

02:42 - AND THAT'S WHAT'S A FABULOUS

02:44 - ABOUT PLENTY OF LAKE. NOT AND

02:46 - DOES THIS PLAY IS FAMOUS FOR

02:48 - ITS FISHING AND VOTING.

02:50 - THIS ALSO FROM ICE HOUSE PARK

02:53 - WHICH SITS RIGHT ON CALLING IT

02:55 - LATE EXCELLENCE YOU. BUT WHAT'S

02:57 - GREAT ABOUT ICEHOUSE PARK.

02:59 - THERE ARE CONCERTS

03:00 - FEATURED THERE WHERE YOU CAN GO

03:02 - OUTSIDE AND ENJOY AN OUTDOOR

03:05 - CONCERT AND FROM THERE. THEY

03:07 - HAVE AN 18 VOTE SHOW WHICH

03:09 - BRINGS IN HUNDREDS OF AND TO

03:11 - VOTE HERE AND THEN THEY HAVE A

03:13 - PADDLE FEST WHICH YOU CAN DO

03:15 - YOUR KAYAKING AND FOLLOWING

03:17 - THOSE EVENTS IS THE FALL

03:19 - PUMPKIN FEST THE FULL PUMPKIN

03:21 - FEST PUTS IT SPRAY RIGHT

03:22 - THROUGH CONNEAUT LAKE BOROUGH,

03:24 - HUGE PARADE, WHICH ENDS UP AT A

03:27 - LOCAL AMUSEMENT PARK. THE

03:29 - 30,000 PEOPLE GO THERE PER

03:31 - SEASON TO SEE THE HUGE HOW CAN DROP VENDORS

03:36 - AND THAT BRINGS SO MUCH

03:38 - ECONOMIC IMPACT TO THIS

03:39 - COMMUNITY. ALSO WHAT THEY HAVE

03:42 - HERE. AFTER THE FALL PUMPKIN

03:43 - FEST THEY HAVE HOW BUT RIGHT TO WATCH THE

03:47 - CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHT UP ALL

03:49 - AROUND CONDIT LATE. IT IS A

03:51 - FEATURE RIDE THAT FEATURES

03:52 - BEAUTIFUL DECORATIONS ALL

03:54 - AROUND THE LAKE WHEN THE LAKE

03:56 - IS NOT FROZEN. AFTER THE

03:58 - LAKE FREEZES FISHING

03:59 - TOURNAMENTS FISHING TOURNAMENTS

04:01 - ICE OFFICIAL TOURNAMENTS ARE

04:02 - FAMOUS HERE. O WELL ALSO FAMOUS

04:06 - HERE AT ICEHOUSE PARK. WHAT

04:08 - YOU HAVE IS THE ICEHOUSE PARK.

04:11 - ICE FESTIVAL FEATURING

04:14 - ICE CARVERS CARVINGS WE USE IT.

04:18 - FOOD ALSO THING TO DO FOR YOU

04:21 - HERE ICONIC MAKE BORROW WHAT WE

04:24 - HAVE HERE IS FROM RELAXATION ALL FOR YOU.

04:28 - WE WELCOME YOU TO COME HERE

04:30 - BECAUSE HERE YOU KNOW WHAT

04:32 - YOU'RE GOING TO BE DOING YOU'RE

04:33 - GOING TO BE CREATING MEMORIES

04:35 - THAT WILL LAST A LIFETIME.

04:38 - A HIGH ON BILL ELDRIDGE AND A

04:40 - MEMBER OF THE CONNEAUT LAKE

04:41 - BOROUGH COUNCIL TODAY WE ARE AT

04:43 - ICEHOUSE PARK. THIS PARK

04:46 - A MAJOR DEPARTURE POINT

04:47 - FOR BOATS AND A BOAT CRUISE YOU

04:49 - CAN SEE A PARTY BOAT HARBOR J

04:51 - BEHIND ME AND ALSO WE HAVE A

04:54 - NICE EVENT SPACE YEAR WE OFTEN

04:55 - HAVE CONCERTS HERE OR PUBLIC

04:57 - GATHERINGS. OTHERS COMFORTABLE

04:59 - BENCH, SEATING HERE.

05:01 - AND IT'S JUST NICE PLACE TO

05:02 - COME IN AND SEE THE LAKE AND

05:04 - IT'S THE BEGINNING OF OUR

05:05 - DOWNTOWN BUSINESS ACROSS THE

05:07 - STREET. WE HAVE A A SOCIAL CLUB

05:09 - FIRE HALL. A LITTLE BIT FURTHER

05:11 - TO THE EAST WE HAVE A WINERY

05:13 - KIND SO WAS WONDERING AND WE

05:15 - HAVE A LOT OF BUSINESSES LET ME

05:16 - TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT OF OUR

05:17 - BOROUGH. WE ARE A SMALL BOROUGH

05:19 - WITH A LITTLE OVER

05:20 - 600 POPULATION AND THE

05:22 - SUMMERTIME IT IS THE POPULATION

05:24 - DECREASES IN THE WINTERTIME WE

05:25 - HAVE 7 BOROUGH COUNCIL MEMBERS

05:27 - AND THE MAYOR, WE HAVE A JOINT POLICE FORCE

05:30 - WHICH WE SHARE WITH OUR ADJOINING TOWNSHIP

05:33 - WE HAVE A VERY MODEST BUDGET WE

05:36 - ARE THE DOWNTOWN FOR THE LARGER

05:37 - LAKE AREA WHICH INCLUDES TO THE

05:39 - TOWNSHIPS. SO THIS IS DOWNTOWN

05:41 - FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE EVEN LIVING

05:43 - IN THE BOROUGH FOR THAT REASON

05:44 - ISIS PARK HERE

05:46 - IS A HAS A COMMANDING VIEW OF

05:48 - THE LAKE IF YOU LOOK YOU CAN

05:49 - SEE 3 MILES DOWN THE WHOLE

05:51 - DISTANCE DOWN THE LATE WE HAVE

05:53 - A GREEN SPACE HERE WHICH IS

05:54 - USED FOR A NUMBER AND

05:56 - GATHERINGS WE JUST RECENTLY HAD

05:58 - THE ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 20

05:59 - COUNTRY BAND CONCERT HERE IN

06:01 - THIS PART AND IF YOU

06:02 - CAN IMAGINE THAT BAY BEHIND ME

06:04 - A FILLED WITH BOATS IN THE

06:05 - GREEN SPACE FILLED WITH CHAIRS

06:07 - PEOPLE LISTENING TO THE ARMY

06:08 - BAND, IT WAS A WONDERFUL EVENT

06:09 - AND WE REALLY ARE IN THE HEART

06:11 - OF DOWNTOWN THAT'S WHAT'S

06:12 - UNIQUE ABOUT OUR BOROUGH

06:13 - IS THAT WE ARE ON THE LAKEFRONT

06:15 - AND THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF

06:16 - THE DOWNTOWN RIGHT HERE.

06:18 - WE ALSO HAVE A FREE DOCKING

06:20 - FOR ONE HOUR AT THE DOCKS BEHIND ME SO THAT

06:22 - WE WOULD ATTRACT PEOPLE ON THE

06:23 - LAKE TO COME TO OUR DOWNTOWN

06:25 - BUSINESSES AND PATRONIZE THE

06:27 - STORES AND BUSINESSES THAT

06:28 - WE HAVE SO FAR MS. BEACH PARK

06:30 - WE'RE VERY PROUD OF WE JUST HAD

06:31 - A MILLION UPGRADE LAST YEAR TO

06:33 - THE PARK. WE NOW HAVE A

06:34 - LAKEFRONT PROMENADE A FOOT WIDE

06:36 - SIDEWALK THAT RUNS THE WHOLE

06:37 - WAY DOWN THE LAKE WE HAVE NEW

06:39 - BOAT DOCKS DOWN THERE WE HAVE A

06:41 - PUBLIC LAUNCH IF YOU WANT TO

06:42 - COME AND LAUNCH YOUR BOAT HERE

06:44 - LAUNCHES DOWN THERE. WE HAVE A

06:46 - PUBLIC SWIMMING BEACH DOWN

06:47 - THERE. WE HAVE A CONCESSION

06:49 - STAND. WE HAVE A VERY

06:51 - INTERESTING SCULPTURE LIFE-SIZE

06:53 - SCULPTURE OF THE WOOLY MAMMOTH WE ARE

06:55 - PRESENTLY BUILDING A BRAND NEW

06:56 - TAKING SHELTER IN A NEW

06:57 - PLAYGROUND WHICH WE DONE WITHIN

06:59 - 30 DAYS THAT WILL BE THE

07:00 - CULMINATION OF A TWO-YEAR

07:02 - EFFORT TO TOTALLY REBUILD THE

07:03 - PARK AND IT'S A IT'S QUITE AN

07:05 - ATTRACTION PREDICT THE WHOLE

07:06 - ENTIRE AREA. SO HERE WE ARE IN

07:09 - OUR DOWNTOWN BUSINESS DISTRICT

07:10 - WE'VE JUST COMPLETED ONE AND A

07:11 - HALF MILLION DARK.

07:13 - STREETSCAPE INC WHEN WE HAVE

07:14 - NEW SIDEWALKS THE STREETLIGHTS

07:15 - NEW PAVING NEW LINED THE

07:17 - STREETS. AND WE HAVE A VERY

07:19 - VIBRANT DOWNTOWN FOR SMALL

07:20 - BOROUGH WE HAVE RESTAURANTS

07:22 - HERE WE HAVE BANKS WE HAVE A

07:23 - HARDWARE STORE. THERE'S A POST

07:25 - OFFICE NEARBY. AND THERE'S A

07:27 - CONVENIENCE STORE ANYTHING YOU

07:29 - WOULD NEED IS RIGHT HERE AGAIN

07:30 - THIS IS THE DOWNTOWN FOR THE ENTIRE

07:32 - LAKE AREA AND SO WE'RE VERY

07:34 - PROUD OF OUR MODERN OUR RECENT

07:35 - UPGRADES THAT OUT.

07:37 - HI MY NAME IS MARIA

07:38 - CALIFORNIA, I'M AN OWNER OF A

07:40 - COFFEE CAFE IT'S A LITTLE

07:41 - COFFEE SHOP IN DOWNTOWN

07:42 - COUNTY LAKE. WE LIKE TO REFER

07:45 - TO IT AS A BEAUTIFUL.

07:47 - THE K SHUN AREA.

07:48 - SO THIS BUSINESS HAS BEEN HERE

07:50 - ABOUT 6 YEARS WE SERVE ALL SORTS OF COPIES.

07:53 - BREAKFAST PASTRIES ALL OF

07:54 - OUR PASTRIES COOKIES MUFFINS

07:56 - CHEESECAKES ARE ALL MADE IN

07:58 - HOUSE, WE SERVE LUNCHES DINNERS

08:00 - ON OCCASION TO A LOT OF

08:01 - CATERING WHICH IS REALLY COOL IN

08:03 - THE AREA, WE'RE LOCATED RIGHT

08:04 - AT THE CORNER OF COUNTY LAKE

08:06 - YOU CAN SEE IT OUTSIDE OF OUR

08:07 - WINDOWS IT'S A BEAUTIFUL HUE.

08:09 - LAST YEAR THEY DID AN AMAZING

08:12 - PROJECT RIGHT OUTSIDE OUR

08:13 - DOORS, THEY REDID ALL OF THE

08:14 - SIDEWALKS AND THE STREETS NE

08:17 - DID SOME BEAUTIFUL STREETSCAPES

08:18 - THAT WE'RE SUPER EXCITED ABOUT

08:20 - IT'S REALLY NICE WALKING AREA,

08:21 - THERE'S A FEW BUSINESSES RIGHT

08:22 - DOWN THE STREET FROM US ALL

08:24 - OWN LOCALLY. SO THEY DID SOME

08:26 - BEAUTIFUL STREETSCAPE LAST

08:28 - YEAR'S COUNTY LIKE

08:30 - THEY REDID ALL OF OUR LIFE

08:32 - HOLES AND PUT A FLAG POLES WE

08:34 - DID THE SIDEWALKS ALL THE

08:35 - ENTRANCES TO THE MEAN

08:36 - BUSINESSES IT'S REALLY COOL.

08:38 - THEY'VE DONE SOME AMAZING

08:39 - GARDENS AND A WALKWAY AROUND

08:41 - PART OF THE LAKE TO GET TO

08:42 - FIREMAN'S BEACH. SO THAT'S A

08:43 - PRETTY COOL THING.

08:45 - EVERY FEBRUARY THEY DO A PRETTY

08:47 - COOL ICE HOUSE EVENT.

08:49 - I DON'T KNOW I THINK LAST YEAR

08:50 - THERE IS AROUND 60 OR 70

08:52 - STATUES EVERYTHING FROM 2 FEET

08:54 - TALL DAY 8 FOOT TALL WHICH IS A

08:56 - PRETTY FULL DESTINATION IN THE

08:57 - MANNER, I KNOW AROUND HERE.

08:59 - IT GETS A LITTLE LONELY AND

09:00 - TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO

09:01 - IN THE COUNTY WHETHER SO THAT'S

09:02 - ALWAYS COOL CHECK US OUT.

09:04 - I'M DIANE DOMINIC.

09:07 - I HAVE A PHD IN THE HISTORY AND

09:10 - THEORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE.

09:13 - AND I'M ALSO A BOARD MEMBER NOW

09:15 - AN ADVISOR TO THE BOARD OF

09:16 - PRESERVATION PENNSYLVANIA,

09:18 - WHICH IS AN ORGANIZATION HAD

09:20 - HEADQUARTERED IN HARRISBURG.

09:23 - WHEN I MOVED BACK TO THIS AREA.

09:26 - IN 2004. I GOT VERY MUCH

09:29 - INVOLVED WITH PRESERVING

09:31 - CERTAIN STRUCTURES BOTH IN

09:32 - MEADVILLE AND HERE IN COUNTY

09:34 - LAKE. I LIVE BETWEEN THE

09:36 - 2 CITIES WHEN I HEARD THAT THIS

09:40 - STRUCTURE WHICH

09:41 - WAS BUILT IN 1864. IT WAS THE

09:44 - 3RD CHURCH OF THE

09:46 - SECOND PRESBYTERIANS OR THIS IS

09:49 - CEDAR PRESBYTERIANS

09:50 - WHO HAD STARTED HERE ABOUT

09:53 - 1799. THE BUILDING WAS UP FOR

09:55 - SALE, THERE WAS NO INTEREST BY

09:58 - THE VENDOR TO PRESERVE IT.

10:00 - AND THERE WAS TALK OF IT BEING

10:02 - ACTUALLY TORN DOWN. FORTUNATELY

10:05 - WE FOUND.

10:07 - I DID SOME HISTORY THE BUILDING

10:09 - AND WROTE ABOUT IT. FOR

10:11 - PRESERVATION PENNSYLVANIA.

10:13 - WE FOUND A BENEFACTOR.

10:15 - AND HE BOUGHT THE BUILDING FROM

10:18 - THE CHURCH WHO HAD MOVED TO A

10:19 - NEW STRUCTURE SOUTH OF COUNTY

10:21 - AT LAKE AND DONATED IT TO

10:24 - THE BOROUGH. SO NOW IT IS THE

10:26 - BURNING BUILDING. THIS IS THE

10:29 - ORIGINAL SANCTUARY OF THE CHURCH.

10:32 - THE STAIN GLASS WINDOWS WHICH

10:34 - VERY IMPRESSIVE WERE INSTALLED.

10:37 - THE ORIGINAL 1864, WHICH IS

10:39 - STILL IN THE BUILDING.

10:40 - THE 1920 NOES LONG

10:43 - AND ARE NOW INSTALLED IN THE

10:44 - NEW CHURCH SOUTH OF THE OF

10:46 - THE BOROUGH. SO THE SANCTUARIES

10:49 - HERE THIS IS A PUBLIC MEETING

10:50 - PLACE TO AVAILABLE

10:52 - TO ALL. DOWNSTAIRS IS NOW

10:55 - DEDICATED TO THE BOROUGH

10:56 - COUNCIL ROOMS OFFICES, THE

10:59 - WATER AUTHORITY FOR THE BOROUGH AND ALSO

11:04 - THE OFFICE ONE OF 3 OF THE

11:07 - LOCAL STATE REPRESENTATIVE

11:09 - PARKE WENTLING THE ORIGINAL

11:11 - CHURCH WAS IN MEMORIAL PARK.

11:14 - IT WAS SHARED BY THIS SECOND

11:16 - PRESBYTERIANS OR THE SO-CALLED

11:18 - SAYS CEDARS THEY WERE THE

11:20 - MORE CONSERVATIVE ARM OF THE

11:22 - SCOTTISH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

11:25 - AND THE PEOPLE WHO CAME HERE

11:26 - WITH THIS RELIGION WITH WITH

11:28 - THIS DO NOMINATION WHERE

11:30 - SCOTT'S IRISH WHO HAD COME FROM

11:33 - OTHER PLACES IN EUROPE. EVEN

11:35 - FRANCE THOUGH SHE KNOWS.

11:39 - THROUGH LONDON WHO CAME TO WENT

11:41 - TO NORTHERN IRELAND AND THEN

11:43 - CAME HERE AT THE END OF THE 18TH CENTURY.

11:49 - THEIR FIRST CHURCH WAS SHARED

11:50 - BY THE REGULAR OR FIRST

11:53 - PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. THEIR

11:55 - GROUP AND THE METHODIST WHO HAD

11:57 - ESTABLISHED THEMSELVES BY THIS

11:59 - BY ABOUT 1800.

12:04 - OUTGREW LONG STRUCTURE.

12:07 - AND THE SHOW IT'S FAMILY WHO

12:09 - ARE SWISS CHILDREN KNOWS BUT

12:11 - HAD COME AS PART OF THIS.

12:14 - CEDAR OR CONSERVATIVE PRESBYTERIAN GROUP.

12:21 - TO THE EAST OF THE VILLAGE ON

12:22 - THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SOUTH END

12:25 - OF THE LAKE.

12:26 - AND THE SECOND STRUCTURE WAS

12:28 - BUILT THERE BY THE CONGREGATION

12:30 - ABOUT 1830. AGAIN THEY EXPANDED.

12:37 - THE LAKE VIEW CEMETERY IS

12:38 - ATTACHED TO THAT ORIGINAL

12:40 - CHURCH. THERE'S ALSO A VERY OLD

12:42 - HOTEL ON THE GROUNDS

12:46 - SUPPLIED FOOD TO SOMETIMES TO

12:48 - THE PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH OVER

12:49 - THERE. BUT TYPICALLY OF

12:51 - THESE CONSERVATIVE. A

12:53 - PROTESTANT. THEY DID NOT HAVE A

12:56 - CROSS-SHAPED I'LL PAD. IT

12:58 - WAS USUALLY 2 AISLES COMING

13:02 - FORWARD TO THE SANCTUARY.

13:05 - SO THAT IT WAS NOT REFLECTIVE IN ANY WAY

13:08 - OF CATHOLIC PRACTICE.

13:10 - THIS WAS AT A TIME WHEN

13:13 - CATHOLICISM WAS I'M STILL

13:16 - CONSIDERED THE ENEMY IF YOU

13:18 - WANT TO PUT IT THAT WAY.

13:20 - THAT IT ALSO IS NOT ORIENTED

13:22 - TO AS A CATHOLIC CHURCH WOULD

13:24 - BE THE SANCTUARY ACTUALLY FACE

13:25 - SOUTH. NOT EAST.

13:29 - IT IT'S

13:31 - A STRUCTURE IN ITSELF AND WHAT

13:32 - WENT ON IN THE BUILDING WAS

13:34 - MORE IMPORTANT THEN SOME OF OUT OR SYMBOLS.

13:39 - IN 18 60 FOR THE CONGREGATION

13:42 - TO THE EAST OF THE VILLAGE

13:45 - OUTGREW THAT STRUCTURE WHICH

13:47 - WAS A PLAIN WOODEN STRUCTURE

13:49 - AND BOUGHT THIS PROPERTY ON HIGH STREET.

13:53 - TO BUILD A NEW CHURCH FOR

13:55 - THEMSELVES, WHICH THEY DID IT.

13:58 - HI I'M JANE CHALIAN YORK OF

14:00 - THIS TERROR AND THE KIND THEY

14:01 - CARRY HISTORICAL

14:02 - SETTING MUSEUM. THE LAKE WAS

14:04 - ACTUALLY HAD INDIANS HERE IN

14:06 - THE LATE 1700'S THAT WASN'T

14:08 - ACTUALLY FOUNDED UNTIL 1858

14:10 - WHENEVER EVANS FORMED A

14:11 - COMMUNITY HERE AND IT WAS NAMED

14:13 - EVANS BIRTH.

14:14 - LATER IT WAS CHANGED TO KANIA

14:15 - BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE TALKED

14:16 - ABOUT GOING TO LAKE

14:18 - COUNTY UP AND SO THAT BECAME

14:20 - COUNTY AT LAKE TOWN INSTEAD OF EVANS BERG

14:22 - WE CELEBRATE ASSESS WASN'T A

14:23 - NEW IN 2008. WE'RE HERE AT

14:26 - THE MUSEUM WHICH WAS FOUNDED IN

14:29 - 2003 AFTER THE STORY GOES

14:31 - SETTING THIS FORM IN 1999.

14:33 - THE BIG NEWS TO BE A COMMUNITY

14:35 - HALL WHERE IT WAS FOUNDED BY

14:37 - PHONE TEARS AS BILL BELL BY

14:38 - VOLUNTEERS IN 1931. IT BECAME A

14:41 - COMMUNITY HALL LATER A FIRE

14:43 - STATION. THE POLICE STATION

14:45 - AND THE WELL COUNCIL IS GOING

14:46 - TO TEAR DOWN IN

14:49 - 2003. AND WE BEG THEM TO SELL

14:51 - IT TO US FOR A DOLLAR AND WE

14:53 - REESTABLISHED AS A MUSEUM.

14:55 - AND TODAY THERE ARE PROBABLY

14:57 - ABOUT 5,000 THINGS ON DISPLAY.

14:59 - AMONG THE 39,000 THINGS THAT WE

15:01 - HAVE BEEN IN OUR ARCHIVES. AMONG THE ITEMS

15:04 - ARE ON DISPLAY SALUTING

15:05 - THE SECOND. A SPEED BOAT WHICH

15:07 - WITH SAFE TO COUNTY LAKE AND

15:09 - OBAMA QUITE LAKE IN 1922.

15:12 - AND WAS BROUGHT UP FROM THE

15:13 - BOTTOM IN 1985. IT WAS STILL IN

15:15 - GOOD SHAPE BECAUSE OF THAT COLD

15:17 - WATER FROM THE GLACIERS IN THE

15:19 - IN THE BOTTOM OF A LAKE.

15:20 - IT WAS RESTORED AND IS NOW ON

15:21 - DISPLAY AT A MUSEUM.

15:23 - WE ALSO HAVE ON DISPLAY THE

15:25 - LIMB AND WITH BONES THAT WERE

15:26 - FOUND IN COUNTY LAKE IN 1958.

15:29 - THERE ARE 14,000 YEARS OLD.

15:31 - IT WAS SENT TO CARNEGIE MELLON

15:32 - WHERE THEY WERE IDENTIFIED AS

15:34 - WILLIE MAMMOTH WE ALSO HAVE

15:36 - SOME ESSENDON BONES AND SOME

15:38 - OTHER BONDS ON DISPLAY.

15:39 - AMONG THE OTHER ITEMS THAT WE

15:40 - HAVE ARE MANY THINGS FROM

15:42 - CURRENT LAKE PARK, WHICH OF

15:43 - COURSE IS KNOWN AS WELL KNOWN

15:45 - AS COUNTY LAKE IS ITSELF.

15:47 - PEOPLE FROM TRUMP IS FOR YOU TO

15:48 - SAY WE'RE GOING TO CON A A AND

15:50 - THEY STILL DO, BUT IT'S REALLY

15:51 - COUNTY LAKE PARK AND WE HAVE

15:53 - THINGS FROM THE EARLY DAYS

15:54 - THERE. WE ALSO HAVE THE

15:56 - ORIGINAL PIECE OF FIRE

15:57 - EQUIPMENT. THE HOSE DRAWN CART

16:00 - THAT WAS WHEN THE ORIGINAL

16:01 - PIECES OF FIRE EQUIPMENT.

16:02 - WE ALSO HAVE A VIDEO WHICH

16:04 - SHOWS A FIREMAN USING IT.

16:05 - BACK IN THE 1930'S. AND THE

16:08 - OTHER THINGS THAT WE HAVE ON

16:09 - THIS PLAYER. WE HAVE A NICE

16:11 - KITCHEN DISPLAY THAT WAS DONE.

16:12 - BUT SOME EARLY EXHIBITORS WITH

16:15 - WHICH FEATURES MANY OF THE OLD

16:16 - TYPES OF THINGS.

16:17 - THE BATH WATER, THE BUILD STOWS

16:19 - AND ALL THAT TYPE OF THING WE

16:21 - HAVE SCHOOL MEMORABILIA, YOUR

16:23 - BOOK SO THAT CLASS PICTURES AND

16:25 - VARIOUS PICTURES OF ALL THE

16:27 - DIFFERENT SCHOOLHOUSES WHICH IS

16:28 - A VERY POPULAR THING FOR PEOPLE

16:29 - COME IN AND SEE FOR THE KIDS TO

16:31 - SEE WHAT THEIR PARENTS LOOK

16:32 - LIKE IN SCHOOL. IT'S REALLY

16:34 - IT'S REALLY NEED FOR THEM.

16:35 - WE ALSO HAVE VARIOUS

16:37 - MEMORABILIA FROM ALL THE

16:38 - VARIOUS BUSINESSES THAT WERE IN

16:39 - TOWN BEFORE AND ALSO NOW.

16:42 - INCLUDING BURGER KING'S GARAGE,

16:44 - WHICH IS WHERE SHE WAS WHICH

16:46 - WAS APART THERE OUT

16:47 - FOR MEN BACK IN THE 50'S AND

16:49 - 60'S. WE HAVE JUST ABOUT

16:50 - EVERYTHING YOU CAN THINK THAT

16:51 - WE HAVE BIG SIGNS THAT WERE

16:53 - HERE FROM THE DIFFERENT

16:54 - BUSINESSES FROM THE TOWNSHIP

16:55 - BUILDINGS. THE BINGO BOARD IF

16:57 - THEY USED TO PLAY THEY KNOW

16:58 - HERE WHEN THOSE OF FIRE

16:59 - DEPARTMENT. WE ALSO HAVE BEEN

17:01 - ANOTHER DISPLAY WHICH IS ABOUT

17:03 - THE PRIMARY ELECTION SYSTEM.

17:05 - THE PRIMARY ELECTION SYSTEM

17:06 - ACTUALLY STARTED HERE IN THE

17:07 - CLEAR LAKE AREA AND THE

17:09 - DEMOCRATS SAID THEY DID NOT

17:11 - LIKE WHO THE BOOK PARTY BUSES

17:13 - SAID NOMINATED. SO THEY FORMED

17:14 - A PRIMARY SYSTEM. SO IF YOU

17:16 - LIKE THE PRIMARY SYSTEM YOU CAN

17:18 - GIVE US CREDIT. IF YOU DON'T

17:19 - LIKE IT YOU CAN BLAME US.

17:21 - BUT AS FOR NUNBERG CLAIMS TO

17:22 - FAME HERE. WE HAVE MADE

17:24 - MILITARY EXHIBIT WITH THINGS

17:26 - INCLUDING A PARACHUTE. THOSE

17:28 - MADE INTO A WOMAN'S BLOUSE A

17:30 - VICTORY LAMP THAT WAS FROM WARD

17:31 - AROUND ALL KINDS. WE HAVE A MAP

17:34 - WHERE PEOPLE CAN CONCLUDED BEEN

17:36 - WHERE THEY SERVE

17:37 - WE HAVE ALL TYPES OF THINGS

17:38 - FROM THE HOTELS IT USED TO BE

17:39 - BIG IN THE AREA. AS WELL AS

17:41 - THE VOTES THAT THEY USED TO BE

17:42 - PARTY BOATS AND ALL THE BOATS

17:44 - AROUND THE LAKE BACK IN THE

17:45 - 1930'S 40'S AND 50'S BEFORE THE

17:48 - BOATS WENT OUT OF SERVICE.

17:49 - WE HAVE A BIG INDIAN DISPLAY.

17:51 - THE SHOW SOME OF THE HISTORY OF

17:52 - THE INDIANS IN OUR NATION.

17:54 - WE HAVE THE THE COPY OF THE DEA

17:56 - DID WHERE THEY BUT THE

17:58 - INDIAN LAND. THE COMMONWEALTH,

18:00 - BUT THE INDIAN LAND FROM THE 6

18:02 - NATIONS IN 1784. WE HAVE A

18:05 - COMPANY THAT DID WITH IT

18:06 - SIGNATURES OF ALL THE INDIAN

18:08 - CHIEFS ON WITH THEIR MARK WHICH

18:09 - IS REALLY NEED FOR THE SCHOOL

18:11 - KIDS TO SEE ALSO

18:12 - WE JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE

18:14 - THAT YOU CAN THINK OF IT.

18:16 - TO SHOW YOU WHAT WE HAD THE

18:20 - SKI MOMENT SHAVING PILEUP LAKE

18:21 - PARK WE HAVE AN ORIGINAL DODGEM

18:23 - CAR FROM HIGHLAND PARK. ANOTHER

18:25 - GAME FROM KEYE LAKE PARK,

18:26 - VARIOUS MOVE AREA FROM THE PUT

18:28 - ON THE BEACH CLUB. FROM

18:30 - FREEMAN BALLROOM. WELL THE

18:31 - THINGS THAT WERE THE BIG THINGS

18:32 - IN CLEAR LAKE PARK AS WELL AS

18:34 - CONNEAUT LAKE TELL.

18:36 - AND WE ALSO HAVE AN OFFICE WITH

18:37 - THE RESEARCH MATERIAL. SO IF

18:39 - YOU'RE LOOKING FOR INFORMATION

18:40 - ABOUT SOMETHING YOU CAN FIND IN OUR OFFICE.

18:43 - THANK YOU FOR TAKING A TOUR

18:44 - CONNEAUT LAKE PLEASE JOIN

18:46 - US FOR THE NEXT EDITION NEXT

18:46 - POINT THAT'S WHEN YOU BOROUGHS

18:48 - WRITER ON PCN.


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