Lookback: The creation of East Side Lake - Austin Daily Herald

Lookback: The creation of East Side Lake - Austin Daily Herald

In 1910, Jacob Herzog became inspired after reading an article that put a $1 million value on a city having a lake. That night, Herzog discussed the idea of Austin getting a lake — worth nearly $33 million today — with a local barber who fished and swam in the former Beaver Lake on Austin’s east side. “That seemed like a lot of money at the time,” Herzog told the Austin Daily Herald in 1961. The old lake was created by a dam on Dobbins Creek tha…