Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park has been renamed Blue Heron Lake, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Commission decided Thursday.
The lake was originally named for former California State Assembly Speaker William Stow, who served in the Assembly between 1854 and 1857, and on the city’s park commission in the 1890s.
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