{"product_id":"highlandlake-and-mead-pauli-driver-smith-9781531664824","title":"Highlandlake and Mead","description":"Today, Mead is a vibrant \"Little Town with a Big Future,\" but when Lorin C. Mead homesteaded 80 acres in 1871, it was nothing more than virgin prairie with a small spring-fed pond he named Highland Lake after Sir Walter Scott's poem \"The Lady of the Lake.\" In 1873, he completed the Highland Ditch and enlarged the pond into a reservoir. The availability of irrigation water attracted additional settlers, and soon a village named Highlandlake sprang up along the shore. In late 1905, a promised railroad bypassed Highlandlake and instead established a beet dump along the eastern border of Paul Mead's farm. Paul, the son of Lorin C. Mead's brother Dr. Martin Luther Mead, immediately platted a new town, naming it after his father. Mead thrived until the Great Depression, during which several businesses were lost, including both banks. For almost 60 years, the town struggled to overcome the resultant losses until finally, in the 1990s, families rediscovered Mead's quaint charm and rural beauty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pauli Driver Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1531664822\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781531664824\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcadia Publishing Library Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/21\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38d","brand":"Pauli Driver Smith","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44058588217599,"sku":"9781531664824","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_08694642-3ad4-41a8-a1d3-82296a35a234.jpg?v=1685053410","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/highlandlake-and-mead-pauli-driver-smith-9781531664824","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}