125 years ago in 1899, transcribed as originally published in the Youngstown Vindicator:

Bathing of the finest quality now afforded at Mill Creek Park. A model bath house for ladies and gentlemen located at the head of charming Lake Cohasset.

Park Commissioner Volney Rogers’ bathing beach and bath house at the head of Lake Cohasset, in Mill Creek Park, is destined to prove as popular an attraction as the park itself. The bathing house is located in a beautiful shady spot, and is of the latest up to date pattern. The ladies’ and gentlemen’s dressing rooms are on opposite sides of the building and each are supplied with lavatories and all the necessary accessories. Bathing suits, new and of all sizes and colors, are kept at the bath house, and the whole arrangement is most complete.

“Parties of ladies have already visited the swimming pool, which is of a safe depth for learners, and when the more venturesome want deeper water, it can be found also in the immediate vicinity. The swimming pool can be reached from either streetcar line. On the Park and Falls line, leaving the terminal, the suspension bridge should be crossed, which brings you to the drive leading to the bath house.

On the old line the spot can be reached by taking boats from the boat landing, or by the east footpath.

The best of attention is assured to all who patronize the swimming pool, which can be visited with safety and pleasure during the bathing season. Mr. Rogers informed a Vindicator reporter on Friday that the park commissioners were going to order a lot of bathing suits in addition to what are already on hand. He also stated that the water was going to be drained off the lake and a new gravel and sand bottom arranged at the swimming pool.

Compiled from the Youngstown Vindicator by Traci Manning, Mahoning Valley Historical Society curator of education.