Bay Curious
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The True Story Behind the Myths and Mysteries of Searsville Lake
14 minutes Posted May 20, 2021 at 10:00 am.
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Bay Curious listener David Mattea grew up in foggy Daly City. He remembers his family driving down the Peninsula to get some sun at a man-made beach on the Stanford campus. He wants to know what happened to it? Well, Searsville Lake is no longer open to the public, but rumors about the place are plentiful, including one about Leland Stanford flooding a town to create it,

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