User:Wknight94/Kathleen Lake
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Kathleen Lake is a twenty-six square mile lake in eastern North Carolina, north of McBratney and south of Rocky Mount. Including man-made extensions to the lake in the late 1970s, Kathleen Lake is North Carolina's sixth largest lake, missing the fifth place Brideham Lake near Brindle by just under three square miles. Before these extensions, Kathleen Lake occupied approximately nineteen square miles, and was North Carolina's ninth largest lake.
Kathleen Lake is the primary source of drinking water for the towns of McBratney, Briehl, Shawmut, Shawnville, and Kathleen Lake, a town named for the lake.
Kathleen Lake is host to one of the largest fishing derbies in the South each May. The lake is stocked by the North Carolina Experimental Fish Hatchery which is based in Shawmut.
The lake is believed to have been named for Kimberly Kathleen Foster, who in August 1864 was beaten and left for dead by several Union soldiers while giving birth in a field near Briehl. Foster's baby boy lived to become lieutenant governor of North Carolina in 1891.
The United States Geologic Survey often performs mosquito density and water site tests at Kathleen Lake, as it is a good representative location for the Carolinas.
A $65 million 3-mile bridge span to carry Interstate 95 over Kathleen Lake is scheduled to be completed by 2010. The current span has been deemed seriously deficient, and trucks in excess of 45,000 pounds have been warned against traversing this span. The new span will be the longest lake crossing in the Carolinas.
