Ganoga Lake is a natural lake in Colley Township in southeast Sullivan County in Pennsylvania, United States. The Ricketts family purchased the lake in the early 1850s, and built a stone house on the lake shore by 1852 or 1855; this served as a hunting lodge and tavern. R. Bruce Ricketts added the lake to his extensive holdings after the American Civil War, and in 1873 built a large wooden addition north of the stone house, which became the North Mountain House hotel. The hotel had one of the first summer schools in the United States in 1876 and 1877. After the death of R. Bruce Ricketts in 1918, his heirs sold much of his 80,000 acres (32,000 ha) to the state for Pennsylvania State Game Lands and Ricketts Glen State Park. The state tried to purchase the lake in 1957, but was outbid by investors who turned the land around it into a private housing development; as such it is "off limits" to the public. Ganoga Lake is on the Allegheny Plateau, just north of the Allegheny Front, in sedimentary rocks from the Pocono Formation. The Wisconsin Glaciation some 20,000 years ago changed the drainage patterns of the lake; this diverted its waters to Kitchen Creek and carved the 24 named waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park in the process.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1389:

France and England agreed to the Truce of Leulinghem, establishing 13-year peace during the Hundred Years' War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truce_of_Leulinghem

1870:

The First Vatican Council declared that the Pope is infallible when he solemnly declares a dogmatic teaching on faith as being contained in divine revelation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_infallibility

1942:

German engineers test flew the Messerschmitt Me 262 with jet engines for the first time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262

1984:

A gunman massacred 21 people and injured 15 others at a McDonald's restaurant in the San Ysidro section of San Diego, California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ysidro_McDonald%27s_massacre

1994:

Eighty-five people died when a bomb exploded at a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, making it Argentina's deadliest bombing ever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_AMIA_bombing

1995:

After a long period of dormancy, the Soufrière Hills volcano began a still-ongoing eruption, devastating the island of Montserrat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soufri%C3%A8re_Hills

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disinter: 1. To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up. 2. To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disinter

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There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. --Nelson Mandela https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela