04-21-2009, 04:33 PM
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ok....
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Originally Posted by RPM
I can help. I have spent countless hours researching each and every island on the lake. Dow Island,until 1887, was just a hole in the middle of lake Winnipesaukee. All the water would drain out each year after ice out.
During the winter of 1886/87 ,construction crews, chopped, in one big piece,
enough land from what is now the BASIN, and dragged it over the ice,around Worthleberry . It took dozens of men weeks to drop the section of dirt into the hole ,but as history shows they succeeded. The lake has never drained since.Dow was the name of the lead mule dragging the island over the ice, but unfortunatly fell through a ice hole and was never seen again.
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Wow...poor Dow. Was he wearing a PFD???
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