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MD -- Lilypons Water Gardens:

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Description of Subject Matter: In 1917, G. Leicester Thomas Sr., a Frederick county landowner and entrepreneur, turned his goldfish and water lily hobby into a business, Three Springs Fisheries. Business bloomed and in 1925 he purchased 300 acres that would become Lilypons Water Gardens.
His mail-order business flourished and by 1935, the U.S. Postal Service decided that a post office must be established to handle the mail order parcels. They needed a name. Leicester's favorite operatic diva, Lily Pons, was then at the height of her career, playing lead roles in Hollywood films and thrilling audiences in opera houses. She agreed to have the place named after her but the Post Office said it had to be a single name, thus Lilypons.
In 1978, Charles Thomas, grandson Leicester, changed the name of the company to Lilypons Water Gardens. In 1997, Charles died and his four daughters (Leicester's great-grandchildren) took over.
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2005 photos: Trips this year: Florida (for Lotusphere), a driving trip down south (seeing sites in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and Georgia), Williamsburg, and Chicago. Equipment this year: I used four cameras -- two Fujifilm S7000 cameras (which were plagued by dust inside the lens), a new Fujifilm S5200 (nice but not great and I hated the proprietary xD memory chips), and a Canon PowerShot S1 IS (returned because it felt flimsy to me). I gave my Epson camera to my catsitter. Both of the S7000s were in for repairs over Christmas. Number of photos taken this year: 147,000.
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