{"id":6142,"date":"2018-02-16T20:48:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T20:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakehomes.com\/info\/?p=6142"},"modified":"2026-01-26T16:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:06:09","slug":"lakes-named-for-the-nations-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lakehomes.com\/info\/lifestyles\/lakes-named-for-the-nations-leaders","title":{"rendered":"President&#8217;s Day Special: Lakes Named for the Nation&#8217;s Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Originally observed in honor of George Washington&#8217;s February 22 birthday, President&#8217;s Day, was first celebrated, following his death,&nbsp;in 1799.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Appropriately dubbed &#8220;Washington&#8217;s Birthday,&#8221; the day was declared a federal holiday in the Washington D.C. area in the late 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The holiday gained national recognition in 1885, and in 1971 the&nbsp;Uniform Monday Holiday Act renamed the celebration President&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now observed on the third Monday of February, President&#8217;s Day recognizes former presidents Washington, Lincoln, Reagan and William Henry Harrison&#8217;s birthdays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what about the former leaders of our nation who don&#8217;t have a national holiday celebrating them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For many, there are streets, counties and state capitals named after them; but a select few will continue to give back to Americans for decades to come through the memories made on the bodies of water which bear their names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-theodore-roosevelt-lake\">Theodore Roosevelt Lake<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Formed by Roosevelt Dam, Theodore Roosevelt Lake encompasses&nbsp;21,493 surface area-acres in Gila County, Arizona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Legislation to provide irrigation to settlements in the dry western United States prompted the dam&#8217;s construction in 1906.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since it&#8217;s completion in 1911, Roosevelt Dam, and the lake it produced, has served as water storage, flood control and produced hydroelectric power to the surrounding areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its original state, the completed structure reached&nbsp;280 feet tall and 723 feet long; however, after extensive safety repairs made from 1989 to 1996, Roosevelt Dam stands today at&nbsp;357 feet tall and 1,210 feet long, making it the&nbsp;highest masonry dam in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Theodore Roosevelt Lake, also referred to as Roosevelt Lake and Lake Roosevelt reaches maximum depths of 349 feet and runs along 128 miles of shoreline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In it&#8217;s rich history, Roosevelt Dam has received (and lost) a&nbsp;National Historic Landmarks designation and the lake was, for a time, the world&#8217;s largest man-made body of water, containing more than million acre-feet of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, the reservoir is a popular fishing spot offering anglers populations of carp, sunfish, channel and flathead catfish, and large and smallmouth bass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-lake-lyndon-b-johnson\">Lake Lyndon B. 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