Deep Eddy Bathing Beach
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz
N 30° 16.623 W 097° 46.385
14R E 618007 N 3350122
The historic marker at Deep Eddy Pool, another one of Austin's gems
Waymark Code: WMTDGP
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/06/2016
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
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Deep Eddy pool is a well-loved Austin swimming area, cooling off citizens of this Texas city since the earliest years of the 20th century. After 1936, it has been operated by the City of Austin.
Marker Number: 6446

Marker Text:
Swedish immigrant Charles Johnson built a large home for his family on 39 ares of land in this vicinity in the 1850s. In 1902 two of his children, Mary and Henry, opened Deep Eddy Resort. The Johnsons named the park for a deep hole in the limestone bed of Colorado River at this site that caused the water's current to from an eddy. Recreational facilities included campsites, picnic areas, rental cottages, and a cable ride into the river. Mary Johnson sold the park to A. J.Eilers in 1915. He built a concrete swimming pool in 1916 and renamed the resort Deep Eddy Bathing Beach. Managed by George A. Rowley, the resort featured such attractions as silent movies, a ferris wheel, carousel ride,a diving horse show, trapeze swing over the water, a 70-foot slide, and a 50-foot diving tower. The carnival atmosphere attracted hundreds of visitors each summer. The City of Austin purchased the park for $10,000 on May 31, 1935. Two weeks later a devastating Colorado River flood inundated the city, swept away park improvements, and filled the pool with debris. With assistance from the federal Works Progress Administration, the city rebuilt the park. It reopened in 1936 as Eilers Park and Deep Eddy Swimming Pool. (1991)


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