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is the core of Basye, a resort with six ski slopes, a small lake with a man-made beach, an 18 hole par 71 golf course and a mountain bike trail. Bryce offers activities such as tubing and skiing in winter, swimming, tennis, grass skiing in the summer. The resort has opened a downhill mountain bike
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William Brice's son Pete and his wife Julie (who both adopted the Bryce spelling for their last name) began running the resort in 1947. In the 1960s they transformed the resort adding a ski slope and other amenities, selling 2,776 lots for a woodland mountain retreat aimed for the
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Lake Laura is a 44-acre (18 ha) pond owned by Bryce Resort. Lake Laura is formed by a dam impoundment of the headwaters of Big Stony Creek, creating a rectangular-shaped pool with a maximum depth of thirty feet. It is open to public use and has a boat ramp for that purpose. The
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Bryce Resort occupies 400 acres and was first opened in 1909, owned by
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was $ 90,125 and the median family income was $ 106,250. Married-couple families had a median income of $ 110,417 versus $ 52,888 for nonfamily households. About 7.5% of the population were below the
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living together, 22.2% had a female householder with no spouse present, and 12.4% had a male householder with no spouse present. 28.1% of the population were never-married individuals.
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community, Basye was named by Martha Basye, married to
William Brice, who opened the original resort. One of the early settlers seems to have been John Basye (born 1773 died 1856).
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Basye was named after a local family that lived in the area and whose cemetery remains off one of the holes on the golf course. Originally considered part of the
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768:Conicville
708:Toms Brook
698:New Market
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425:References
404:Lake Laura
275:78°45′47″W
160:Population
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871:Red Banks
713:Woodstock
703:Strasburg
670:Woodstock
551:April 23,
272:38°49′7″N
261:Geography
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341:Hispanic
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841:Calvary
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249:History
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