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Carter Lake, Iowa
File #2
11/1/79--

Carter Lake sign, with Neighborhood Watch sign below it

A proposal before the Metropolitan Planning Agency would add $75,000 in improvements to the Carter Lake water system to service Owen Parkway West, a business office complex in the southern part of the city. The improvements would also open the area…

At right is the architects', How/Nelson Associates of Omaha, drawing of the planned brick, steel, and glass building. [headquarters of Owen Industries] Groundbreaking for the project is scheduled fro early October. [Photo by Steve Glowacki]

What is now a large pile of dirt on the outskirts of Carter Lake is the first phase of a major commercial development. In September, Edward Owen, chairman of the board of Paxton & Vierling Steel Co. in Carter Lake, announced construction plans fora…

The 118-acre Carter Lake provides fishing and recreational opportunities--and a scenic backdrop--for Carter Lake and area residents. Paved walkways and wooden bridges facilitate pedestrian traffic around the lake which was formed as an ox-bow of the…

February/March 2010 Historical Society newsletter.