Dove Lake is a

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. It was created by damming Mill Creek. Dove Lake was the setting of the 1885 painting ''

The Swimming Hole ''The Swimming Hole'' (also known as ''Swimming'' and ''The Old Swimming Hole'') is an 1884–85 painting by the American artist Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), Goodrich catalog #190, in the collection of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art i ...

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Thomas Eakins Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (; July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important American artists. For the length ...

Dove Lake is on a privately owned property in Bryn Mawr and Gladwyne.

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