Hidden Raleigh

Lakes / Ponds / Quarries / Dams

Aqueduct  


Photographed March 21, 2004

Notes:  The stone aqueduct is located behind 1014 North West Street and extends south to Peace Street. March 2004.

See photos from 2013

Boone's Pond


Photographed March 23, 2004


1928, 1948 street map; Sanborn Map (right), 1939

Lake Boone Trail and Cambridge Road

History:  Boones Pond was later filled and is presently a residential neighborhood. March 2004.

Country Club Lake


Photographed March 23, 2004


1928 street map

Scotland Street side of Country Club Lake

History:  The Carolina Country Club was incorporated in 1918 and constructed in the 1920s on the Bloomsbury Park site.  The lake is located on the northeast corner of the Glenwood Avenue property.  The stone dam is located on the northeast corner of the lake and empties into a stream that runs into a culvert beneath the 500 block of Scotland Street. March 2004.

Glenwood Quarry  


Photographed March 25, 2004

Glenwood Avenue at Oberlin Road

History:  Glenwood Village Shopping Center is the site of a granite quarry that operated in the early 20th century. March 2004.

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