WAZ Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 When I was doing research in the Houston Chronicle from the 1950s, I found lots of ads for the Lake Alaska campground/park in Angleton.Does anyone know where this was, and what became of it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucesw Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 From the Handbook of Texas.Another online reference says the lake itself was 6 miles NW of Angleton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plumber2 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 One of my dad's cousins had a cabin there. They hosted a family function once, around 1962 or '63 in the middle of the summer. I remember it as being stifiling hot, and the mosquito's were brutal. Of course, we were beach people and therefore predjudiced. Catching catfish and perch is just not the same as catching trout and flounder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
detached Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 (edited) I did a search on Google Maps for "Lake Alaska, Texas" and it popped up as a horsehoe lake (vestigial from one of Oyster Creek's old bends), off of Hwy. 521 NW of Angleton, and still has streets and homes around it. Love the name of one street... "Primrose Path"! Edited February 9, 2009 by detached Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt. kirk Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 LAKE ALASKA..........BACK IN THE LATE 50'S EARLY 60'S MOST OF IT WAS LOTS THAT YOU COULD BUY....WHEN WE USE TO GO THERE WERE VERY FEW HOUSES/CABINS ETC. MY DAD, UNCLE AND I USE TO SLEEP IN COTS WITH NETTING....VERY VERY HOT AND A FEW SNAKES...........WE USUALLY SWAM IN THE POOLS WHEN THEY HAD WATER IN THEM......WHICH WAS NOT VERY OFTEN...........YOU CAN PROBABLY PURCHASE OUR LOTS FOR BACK TAXES LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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