Dinosaur Lake

Does anyone else remember it. Standish Hansell had it dug and put the concrete dinosaurs on the island. There was a concrete snake wrapped around a tree too.

I, unfortunately, have never been there. But, I have come across information on it at: http://www.amusementparknostalgia.com/index.h...
If you click on "Forgotten Places" and then scroll down, there is some information on it. I found this site a few years ago.

I love this lake, I catch snapper turtles here. there was a small wooden dock that me and my friends made bigger with wooden pallets.

47 Year Bensalem Resident wrote:

Does anyone else remember it. Standish Hansell had it dug and put the concrete dinosaurs on the island. There was a concrete snake wrapped around a tree too.

I remember it, you could walk around the whole lake from the path. The one side did have a dock, well what was left of it anyway. and There was a creater cut out just to the left of that dock.

If you can find anymore info about it post the link. Id luv to know the story behind those concrete dinosaurs.

HEY 47 year... I found some info about the lake and check out the pics at the bottom, VERY COOL !!

http://www.amusementparknostalgia.com/inddl.h...

I'm trying to get all the pic's I can, from them making it to the dino's on the island, may take awhile but then I'll put them on a web site for all to enjoy and remember.

I remember this lake well. It was behind Liberty Bell Racetrack, now the Franklin Mills Mall. It was rumored that the reason the lake was drained, is that someone found a woman's head at the bottom of the lake. They never identified the head, and many stories swirled around the possibility of there being a link to the horrors of Byberry State Mental Hospital. Of course these were childhood stories, but I believe the head in the lake was fact. I lived in Doral Apts at the time, this was back in the early 70's...

John B wrote:

I remember this lake well. It was behind Liberty Bell Racetrack, now the Franklin Mills Mall. It was rumored that the reason the lake was drained, is that someone found a woman's head at the bottom of the lake. They never identified the head, and many stories swirled around the possibility of there being a link to the horrors of Byberry State Mental Hospital. Of course these were childhood stories, but I believe the head in the lake was fact. I lived in Doral Apts at the time, this was back in the early 70's...

I remember that story well....growing up in Parkwood we visited there quite a few times...I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers this place...or the rumours about it :)

47 Year Bensalem Resident wrote:

Does anyone else remember it. Standish Hansell had it dug and put the concrete dinosaurs on the island. There was a concrete snake wrapped around a tree too.

Yes I remember it. What happened to it. We use to cut throught the road between the farmer fields off of Humleville rd to get to it. Dang that was a long time ago. It's true you can't go home. We use to ride Jerry Casey ponies back in there. that was in the late 60's.