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Jeff & Cody 1-11-99 Medina & Diversion Lakes Medina Lake is 23 miles south of Bandera, TX. It's also accessible from Castroville. Diversion Lake is south of Medina Lake and near a settlement called Mico. In 1912 some people built Medina Dam. This dam blocked off the flow of the river and eventually overflowed. This created Diversion Lake. At the end of Diversion Lake there is a smaller dam called Diversion Dam. The people that were going to build Diversion Lake went back to England on a ship called the Lusitania. But on the way back, the ship was torpedoed and it sank, and Diversion Dam was never finished. Instead, the property around Diversion Lake was privately sold. The elevation around Diversion Lake ranges from 500 feet around the lake, to 1300 feet at the top of the canyon. The most sited birds and animals by the Scorpion Cave escavation team of 1972 were the turkey, pack rat, cotton tail rabbit, whitetail deer and cows or bison. This escavation occurred near the upper pond of Diversion Lake. The escavation team also found pottery, and arrowheads from the Indians that lived here between 1675-1850, while they observed the wildlife. Opossum and many other animals, such as the cave bat and striped skunks or dogs, are the least sighted animals at Diversion Lake, There are also rare trees, such as poplar, cedar and buckeye around Diversion Lake. Rare plants , such as kinikinik or Indian tobacco, and guajello, a succulent like aloe in the Diversion Lake Area too. The vegetation here also includes many assorted weeds. The Indians living near Medina Lake were the Coahuiltecans. They ate deer, rodents, rabbits, reptiles and insects. In 1675 a large amount of their tribes got smallpox. By 1850 only a few Coahuiltecans remained, and they died from war or disease. A long time ago, Indians lived in a cave called Scorpion Cave. Nobody knows if the Indian's pottery was baked or not. In 1972 a team of four people escavated Scorpion Cave. They found many arrow heads and traces of the Coahuiltecan Indians. The authors' opinions are that the Indians around Diversion Lake were from the "Old Stone Age" because we have found arrow heads and tools that signified that they were hunters, and most hunters traveled around. The New Stone Age is characterized by people that stay in one place and farm. These Indians were nomadic, which means they traveled in search of food. The End �1999 JMCM & CMJM | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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