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On this day in 1902, due in large part to the efforts of Judge William Gladstone Steel, Congress created Crater Lake National Park. Embracing nearly 250 square miles of land in Douglas and Klamath Counties, the lake itself is about six miles in diameter, with an area of 21 square miles. Discovered in 1853 by John W. Hillman and a party of prospectors, it was christened Deep Blue Lake. It was renamed Crater Lake by a party of visitors from Jacksonville in 1869.
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