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Geneva Lake (Potawatomi: Kishwauketoe 'Clear Water') [2] is a body of freshwater in Walworth County in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. [3] On its shores are the city of Lake Geneva and the villages of Fontana-on-Geneva-Lake and Williams Bay .
Lake Geneva is located at (42.592380, -88.434424). [17] The city is on the northeast bay of Geneva Lake on relatively flat ground, with some steep hills and bluffs. The White River flows out of Geneva Lake for 19 miles into Burlington, Wisconsin.
Lake Geneva [note 1] is a deep lake on the north side of the Alps, shared between Switzerland and France. It is one of the largest lakes in Western Europe and the largest on the course of the Rhône .
The lake front at Geneva, hardest hit by the Tauredunum event of 563 AD. The Tauredunum event (German: Tauredunum-Ereignis) of 563 AD was a tsunami on Lake Geneva (then under the Frankish territory of the Kingdom of Orleans), triggered by a massive landslide which caused widespread devastation and loss of life along the lakeshore.
Big Foot Beach State Park is a state park of Wisconsin, United States, on Geneva Lake.The park is used primarily for hiking, swimming, camping, and fishing. The beach and park are named for Big Foot (a translation from the Potawatomi Maumksuck (Mmangzed), also known in French as Gros Pied), an early Potawatomi leader in the area until his band forcibly relocated by the United States in 1836.
Lake Geneva's perfect Midwestern vacation includes picturesque sunsets, historic estates, sunny beaches, notable cuisine from cheese curds to caviar, full-service resorts and sweet little inns.
Under the plan, a 100-room resort with a large spa operation and attendant parking and support facilities was to be located on the 9-acre (36,000 m 2) virgin wooded Yerkes land on the lakeshore—the last such undeveloped, natural site on Geneva Lake's 21 mi (34 km) shoreline. About 70 homes were to be developed on the upper Yerkes property ...
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, emerged as a resort town in the 1870s, popularized by images of its side-wheeler steamboats.The lakeshore at Broad Street became the main water transportation hub with the construction of the Whiting House Hotel; the train station was located approximately .5 miles due north on Broad St.