In 1917, the Austin Court of Appeals held that the bed of the lake belonged to the State. Sometime before 1917, the landowners surrounding Green Lake sued the State of Texas contending that their surrounding grants extended to the center of the lake, and that the State did not own title to the bed of the lake. A small settlement, Green Lake, was established near the lake. Its average depth when full is about 4 feet.īefore the Civil War the area was settled by ranchers and cotton farmers and grants were made of the surrounding land.
Historically, the lake was filled by overflow from the Guadalupe River, and the lake sometimes dried up during times of drought. Located in Calhoun County near the coast, it covers an acre of about 10,000 acres. Green Lake is the largest natural fresh-water lake in Texas. The movie reminded me that Green Lake is a real place in Texas that has its own fascinating legal history. Green Lake was a dried-up lakebed in Texas where the camp detainees were forced by the evil warden (played by Sigourney Weaver) to dig holes looking for a buried treasure.
In the story, Stanley Yelnats IV, a teenager, is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention camp, for stealing a pair of sneakers. Sacher also wrote the screenplay for the movie, which came out in 2003. Recently my son was watching the movie “Holes,” a great adventure movie based on a book by the same name written by Louis Sacher in 1988.
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