One hundred years ago, the dam was nearly complete. A future of fishing, swimming and outdoor enjoyment was beginning.
Far from the madding crowds … lies Lake Aluma Chulosa — the Lake of Peaceful Retreat.
Far from the clang of a street car, the siren of a fire wagon, the horn of an automobile or the raucous cry of a newsboy, is one of Oklahoma County’s beauty spots in the making.
But it is not too far for tired business men to run out after work for a dip and quiet night. Just a trifle more than eight miles northeast of Main and Broadway where restless crowds surge and shuffle, it shines in the sun and smiles serenely into the sunlit sky.
The name of the lake was taken from the Choctaw. From the mouths of Indians, it was taken to designate a place were tired business men could spend the night or week-end and gratify the “call of the wild.”
Possibly it took the Indian who saw the beauty of the rolling prairie dotted with buffalo, felt the witchery of Indian summer, and transferred to skin the beauty of the doe and fawn drinking from a streamlet in a sun-washed forest, to originate an expression like “Peaceful Retreat.”