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The Lakeview Hotel — Continued from page 10

“The hotel featured an elaborate days before opening for the summer and Bass Ponds Frederick
amusement center in the form of a season, the hotel burned to the County – Purchased by State
casino (a 2-story building with a first ground. This time, a faulty heating 1917” (shown right).
class skating rink and a beautiful apparatus was to blame. Mr. Remsburg’s influence
dance hall. On the first floor were Mr. Remsburg gave up his would have a profound
4 bowling alleys, a pool room, and endeavors in the hospitality resort effect on the son of his next
cloak and toilet rooms). Guests were business and went back to an door neighbors, Milton and
invited to use the lake for bathing, enterprise that was decidedly Rosanna Powell. Their son,
swimming, and boating, as row boats “fireproof.” He returned to putting Albert M. Powell, developed
were made readily available. his full attention to the business of a love of fish, as well, and Photo by Joan Bittner Fry
The Lake View Casino opened in raising goldfish. served as the longtime
early September 1908. The crowd In 1916, the Maryland superintendent of Maryland
was estimated to have been at least Conservation Commission assessed State Fish Hatcheries. The
a thousand persons, over 300 from the state for future fish hatcheries, Albert Powell Hatchery
Frederick alone. Many went in especially trout. The following year, is located in Hagerstown,
carriages and other vehicles from Lewistown was selected for the Maryland. Construction of
surrounding towns. commission’s first hatchery. The state this facility began in 1946
Not all persons who desired to also stocked Remsberg’s Lake View and was completed in 1949.
skate could be accommodated, as with a supply of small-mouth bass, From Powell’s obituary: “Albert
only a portion of the number of crappie, and catfish. M. Powell, Fisheries Expert of the state programs and became an
skates ordered arrived. They are Plans for the proposed Lewistown Lewistown, Maryland, died in expert on shipping live freshwater
expected shortly.” hatchery were drawn up during the February 1991 at Homewood fish, sending one shipment of small
Sadly, the full potential of the fall of 1917, and by January 1918, Retirement Center at age 93. He mouth bass to South Africa.”
site was never realized, suffering a a 22 x 44-foot temporary hatchery was retired superintendent of inland The next time you travel to or
devastating fire two years later, just had been completed at the site, and fisheries, retiring in 1967, after from Frederick on Route 15, you will
prior to the opening of the hotel in 400,000 trout eggs had been placed working in the state’s freshwater understand the meaning of Powell
May 1910. Mr. Remsburg had grossly into the new hatchery. fish program for more than 40 years Road and Fish Hatchery Road, and
under-insured his building, and with Lewistown Hatchery Today and briefly for the U.S. Bureau of possibly remember the ill-fated Lake
the outlay for the hotel, he was not in Little remains today that would Fisheries. He had been a member View Hotel and Casino.
the position to rebuild the casino. suggest the size of the hatchery of the American Fisheries Society,
Over the next four years, the Lake operation that once existed until The Potomac Valley Fly Fishing S u ppor t Y ou r Commu n i ty!
View Hotel hosted pleasure seekers, the early 1950s. A sign on Fish Association, and the Frederick
but would suffer the same fate as Hatchery Road, off U.S. 15 south, County Fish and Game Protective Pratronize your local
the casino on June 16, 1914. Just states: “Lewistown Trout Hatchery Association. He wrote a history of businesses.