Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1919 — Lake That Disappears. [ARTICLE]

Lake That Disappears.

In Georgia, near Vladosta, there is a lake which disappears every three or four years and then comes back again, no matter what the weather is like. The lake- is three miles long and three-quarters of a mile wide, with an average depth of 12 feet of water. There are natural subterranean passages beneath it, through w’hlch the water passes off. It takes two or three weeks to disappear, when a mammoth basin is left in its place, which furnishes a beautiful sandy beach. After a month or so the water begins to return, and then in a couple of weeks it is the same magnificent stretch of water as it was before.