Dinosaur Lake

[47 Year Bensalem Resident]

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.

[Bensalem Resident]

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.

[Tiberius_Echo]

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.

[NE Philly]

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.

[NE Philly]

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

[NE Philly]

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...

[another bensa-levit]

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.

[John B]

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...

[Chuck D]

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 :)

[R Lunny]

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.