This site is dedicated to the era when Lake Waukaway (later, Waukaway Springs) was open to the public and was enjoyed regularly by people from about a 40 mile radius, especially from Laurel to Meridian, in south central Mississippi.
This site is owned, managed, and maintained by me, Judy Allen Wilson. My father, Howard Allen, operated Waukaway from the 30s through the 70s. In 1976 it was sold to Gene Garrick. It has now become a Christian Retreat Center. Their website, http://waukawaysprings.com , is devoted to this ministry. I have been a bit disappointed there haven’t been more pictures. But I do understand the problems with keeping up a website! This one is a good example.
These pages are devoted to pictures, memories, articles, people, and nostalgia associated with Lake Waukaway, the years we owned it. We will focus on the years it was known as Lake Waukaway (the 50s, 60s, and 70s) and try to recapture the feelings and the times associated with those years. I called Howard Allen “Daddy”, but for simplicity, I will refer to him as “Howard” in these pages, because that’s how everyone knew him. He married my mother, Marjorie Jennings, in 1939, and my parents, my brothers — Curt