That's where she got her romantic and historic name.
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
Popular enthusiasm is a great ocean, but it is an ocean of dirty water, and you cannot come out clean from the contact; and so I should have wished well to royalty, but for an accident,-a mere trifle in its way, but one quite sufficient, even on historic grounds, to account for a man's change of opinions.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
historic Progressive Fairfax County in Old Virginia.
"Frying Pan Farm"
Elizabeth Brown Pryor