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Lake Placedo and the vanished town of Mary Lou legend
The Lavaca Bay area once housed Lake Placedo or Mary Lou a thriving rice plantation town with 200 families. Survivals include Harvey Robinson of Port Lavaca and the old Clark crossing, while the six mile beach and Lake Placedo City Park recall a summer paradise now mostly abandoned. The St Valentine’s Day Massacre of seven gangsters occurred in Chicago on February 14, 1929.
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Lavaca Bay
Mary Lou
Lake Placedo
Calhoun County
Victoria County
Placebo Creek
Ross Clark
Placedo Dam
Lake
Placedo City Park
Placedo Creek
Six Mile County Ark
John Kisiah
Wilson
Sallie Wilson
John Schlebach
Field
Shannon
Gregory
Zilla
Lake Placebo
Kansas
Nebraska
Illinois
Georgia
Alabama
Calhoun
Victoria
Harvey Robinson
Lavaca Street
Port Lavaca
Robinson
Dillard
Julia Green Robinson
Henry Clay Koontz
Inez
Sheriff Albert Egg Farm
Edna
Robinsons
John Webb
Keeran
Webb
Clark
San Antonio
Lavaca
Linnville
San Antonio Crossing
Gloid
Hammond
Harper
Aguin
Mary Lou” Robinson
Lake Robinson
Chicago