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White Rock Lake is a 1,254 acre reservoir located in Dallas, Texas that was formed by damming White Rock Creek, which today widens into the lake before continuing south out of the spillway and emptying into the Trinity River. Before it was a lake, the area was a collection of farms owned by the Daniel and Cox families. Construction on White Rock Lake began in 1910 in response to a water shortage in Dallas. In the early 1930s the Dallas Park Board, with the help of the Civilian Conservation Corps, began developing the lakeshores into a municipal park. In 1943 the government used the barracks at Winfrey Point to house German prisoners of war who had served in Rommel's Afrika Corps. Today it is a center of recreational activity for Dallas, providing picnic areas and bicycle and jogging paths.

A legend was started when a woman named Anne Clark wrote the account of the Lady of the Lake legend published in 1943. “The Ghost of White Rock,” was included in the Texas Folklore Society’s publication, “Backwoods to Border.” In this accounting, a young couple parked on the shore of White Rock Lake. When they switched their headlights on, they saw a woman in white coming toward them. A young girl dressed in a sheer, wet, white dress. She spoke in a faltering voice.
I‘m sorry to intrude, and I would not under any other circumstances, but I must find a way home immediately. My boat overturned. The others are safe. But I must get home.
She climbed into the rumble seat, saying that she did not wish to get the young lady wet. She gave them an address in Oak Cliff. When they asked her for directions, they turned around only to find their rumble seat empty and wet. The couple went to the address she gave them. A sad man met them at the door. The man told them:
“This is a very strange thing. You are the third couple who has come to me with this story. Three weeks ago, while sailing on White Rock Lake, my daughter drowned.”

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