Draper Lake

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Just curious - anyone know how Draper Lake got its name?

 

[InletBchDweller]

No sorry but and posting so early in the morning also!!!!

 

[bsmart]

I bet CBA Phillip would know, he heads the Choctawhatchee Bay Alliance, hence the CBA, and also facilitates community meetings in order to develop responsible management solutions of these pristine coastal dune lake ecosystems.

See this thread: Draper Lake Community Meeting and Discussion - SoWal Beaches Forum

 

[bsmart]

By the way, I looked in the book Of Days Gone By, but did not find anything after just a brief glance of a few pages I sorted out of the index. This book, as well as The Way We Were (another book which I do not have and could probably help you out) are available at Sundogs in Seaside and other places around the area.

 

[1st in 59]

By the way, I looked in the book Of Days Gone By, but did not find anything after just a brief glance of a few pages I sorted out of the index. This book, as well as The Way We Were (another book which I do not have and could probably help you out) are available at Sundogs in Seaside and other places around the area.

Thanks for the leads about the origin of the name "Draper Lake" bsmart. I'll check Sundog Books when I'm there next week. Do you (or anyone) know if there's a local historical society?

1st in '59

 

[bsmart]

Coastal Heritage Preservation Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 2111
Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32459

 

[stantheman]

Draper Lake got its name from the Draper family who had a place there on the lake. My grandfather took me there as a kid to see the old homestead. Kind of like the Millers had on Western Lake. My Mother and her brother used to walk to there farm to buy fruit and eggs. At that time Mrs. Draper had gone kind of crazy and would only say (Listen to the frogs- Listen to the frogs). I guess a little to much solitude for to many years.

 

[Smiling JOe]

Draper Lake got its name from the Draper family who had a place there on the lake. My grandfather took me there as a kid to see the old homestead. Kind of like the Millers had on Western Lake. My Mother and her brother used to walk to there farm to buy fruit and eggs. At that time Mrs. Draper had gone kind of crazy and would only say (Listen to the frogs- Listen to the frogs). I guess a little to much solitude for to many years.

Now that is my kind of crazy. I actually had that thought just the other night, "listen to the frogs, listen to the frogs." I didn't speak it, but I thought it.

 

[Mango]

Draper Lake got its name from the Draper family who had a place there on the lake. My grandfather took me there as a kid to see the old homestead. Kind of like the Millers had on Western Lake. My Mother and her brother used to walk to there farm to buy fruit and eggs. At that time Mrs. Draper had gone kind of crazy and would only say (Listen to the frogs- Listen to the frogs). I guess a little to much solitude for to many years.

Thanks for that. It's great to hear these stories.