What is Mastin Lake Road named after?
Jim McCullars
that hopefully someone reading this can answer. I've asked some long-time
Huntsville residents who live near me, and have gotten little other than
"gee, I never thought about it".
Is there now, or has there ever been, a body of water in Huntsville known
as Mastin Lake? Where is/was it? If not, what was Mastin Lake Road named
after?
Thanks...
Jim
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Mastin Lake. It was spring fed and not much larger than a large pond. I have
no idea if it still exists or not but it did then. There was really two
ponds, one very small which fed into the larger. If my memory is correct
Mastin Lake was about 100 yards long and maybe 30 yards wide. It was the
coldest water I have ever been in in my life. Don't ask me how to get to
it, I haven't the foggiest.
Glen Swaim
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Glen Swaim
Glen
Gerry Franks
>Forgot to add, it was in the same area as Mastin Lake Road.
And I heard that it was drained when they started building all those
houses over there in the 60's. Seems like it was somewhere near
Jordan Lane, the topology of the area might indicate that. But then
again, I never saw the place. I didn't get to HSV until 1983.
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J. Porter Clark
>Hmmm... I looked in my map book, and it doesn't reference any
>Mastin Lake. I looked all along the length of Mastin Lake
>Road (which really doesn't go that far), and didn't see any
>lake. The only thing I can think of is that it was where
>Mastin Lake Park, in the Rolling Meadows subdivision, is now.
When I was going to UAH, the student newspaper once had a cartoonish
sort of map that had notations like "Winchester Road--Doesn't really go
to Winchester" and "Pulaski Pike--Doesn't really go to Pulaski" on it.
I don't remember there being a "Mastin Lake Road--No lake by that name"
on it, but it's been a long time, and it would have been a natural.
And doesn't Pulaski Pike actually go to Pulaski? (Obviously, I haven't
driven that way or consulted a map.)
At the intersection of Herman Plummer Road and Old Monrovia Road, or
whatever that road is, there was once a sign that said "Plumber Herman
Rd". I wondered for a long time who Plumber Herman was. Duh.
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J. Porter Clark porter...@msfc.nasa.gov
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David K. Cornutt
>When I was a young lad in about 1959-60 I swam in a small body of water
called
>Mastin Lake. It was spring fed and not much larger than a large pond.
I have
>no idea if it still exists or not but it did then. There was really two
>ponds, one very small which fed into the larger. If my memory is correct
>Mastin Lake was about 100 yards long and maybe 30 yards wide. It was the
>coldest water I have ever been in in my life. Don't ask me how to get to
>it, I haven't the foggiest.
Hmmm... I looked in my map book, and it doesn't reference any
Mastin Lake. I looked all along the length of Mastin Lake
Road (which really doesn't go that far), and didn't see any
lake. The only thing I can think of is that it was where
Mastin Lake Park, in the Rolling Meadows subdivision, is now.
Keep in mind that most of Mastin Lake Road west of Pinhook
Creek (where Lakewood Elementary is) did not exist, at least
not in its present form, prior to about 1966. (I can remember
when Davis Hills School was new! My parents used to go over
there and play tennis on their courts after work. Try that
at a public school now...) I was in first grade at Lakewood
that year, and I recall when a heavy truck ran over the old
two-lane bridge over the creek, and partially collapsed it.
The city closed it, and a few weeks later they sent out a
crane to knock it down. The school let us all out for the
afternoon so we could watch.
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David K. Cornutt, Residentially Engineered, Huntsville, AL USA
email: cor...@iquest.com
Don't tell me it takes a rocket scientist. I *am* a rocket scientist.
fem...@iquest.com
I've never seen it, but I've been told that north of Mastin Lake Road on
the Pinhook there is a small lake (or pond, I'd guess). It is surrounded by private property
and not directly accessible from a public street. Seems like I remember the property was owned at one time by Stan Ryan, the tile guy. I can't
verify any of this, since my "knowledge" is all hearsay, but I did hear it said.
Frank Emens, Huntsville Alabama "fem...@iquest.com"
"Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before."
Evans A Criswell
J. Porter Clark <j...@hammer.msfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
>
>When I was going to UAH, the student newspaper once had a cartoonish
>sort of map that had notations like "Winchester Road--Doesn't really go
>to Winchester" and "Pulaski Pike--Doesn't really go to Pulaski" on it.
>I don't remember there being a "Mastin Lake Road--No lake by that name"
>on it, but it's been a long time, and it would have been a natural.
>And doesn't Pulaski Pike actually go to Pulaski? (Obviously, I haven't
>driven that way or consulted a map.)
>
I once drove up Pulaski Pike to see where it went. It zigzags around the
northwest part of the county. At some time, it did go to Pulaski, but it
seems to have been "cut in two" by I-65. My guess is that it used to be
one of the main roads before Highway 53 was built. I'm not sure if it ran
into the old US 31 (now AL 251), which goes to Ardmore and Pulaski, or if it
actually crossed over where I-65 is, and went to Elkmont, then up to Pulaski.
It has been several years since I tried to follow that road.
Winchester Road, however, does go straight toward Winchester. It runs into
US 64 (TN 15) just north of Huntland.
A more likely candidate for this type of discussion is Triana Blvd, which
does not go to Triana, but it used to before the arsenal was built, according
to a 1948 Madison County map I have. What about Maysville Road? I guess at
one time, it could have been US 72 before 5th Street North (now Andrew Jackson
Way) was US 72.
Look at what happened to Holmes Avenue (once Athens Pike). It no longer goes
anywhere westward, since it got cut up into several disjoint pieces. When
driving on it, you can look ahead where the "cuts" occurred and see that it
used to be one contiguous road (US 72 west).
Evans
frank williams
>Keep in mind that most of Mastin Lake Road west of Pinhook
>Creek (where Lakewood Elementary is) did not exist, at least
>not in its present form, prior to about 1966. (I can remember
>when Davis Hills School was new! My parents used to go over
>there and play tennis on their courts after work. Try that
>at a public school now...) I was in first grade at Lakewood
>that year, and I recall when a heavy truck ran over the old
>two-lane bridge over the creek, and partially collapsed it.
>The city closed it, and a few weeks later they sent out a
>crane to knock it down. The school let us all out for the
>afternoon so we could watch.
>---
>David K. Cornutt, Residentially Engineered, Huntsville, AL USA
>email: cor...@iquest.com
>Don't tell me it takes a rocket scientist. I *am* a rocket scientist.
At the bottom of the hill west of Kenwood Dr. was Mastin Lake.
That was back when Mastin Lake was a two lane with deep ditches
on each side. People used to take cars there and pull them into
the creek and wash them. My brother sunk a 52 Mercury in the lake.
There is a Lakeview Dr back in that neighborhood.