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Johnson Lake Natural Area
Johnson Lake Natural Area is a park in Sumner, Portland, Oregon, at NE Glass Plant Road and Simpson Street. Open every day, until midnight at the latest. A 12-minute walk from Cascades MAX Station.
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Over a half a century ago this lake was the recreational center of the area. Harry Johnson purchased the lake in 1911. At that time, the lake was clear and the springs in the shallow areas were so strong that the water resembled bubbling fountains. People rented boats to play, fish, and swim in the clear waters. There was a beach house where people could change and a dance hall where they could recreate. In the late 1940s the dance hall burned down, but the community still enjoyed the lake for a number of years. In the 1950s, Owens-Illinois (glass factory) purchased the land to the south and west of the lake and the area where the lake flows into the slough system from Harry Johnson.
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