complex still bears the White City name, though the movie theater, White City Cinemas, was shut down in recent years. An elder apartment complex now stands on the former site of Lincoln Park. Quinsigamond State Park Quinsigamond State Park is located on the Worcester side, to the north and south of Route 9. Ramshorn Island Ramshorn Island is owned by the city of Worcester, and is open to the public. Its walking paths cover the circumference of the 1.5 acre island, which is located toward the western bank of the lake just south of the renovated Kenneth F. Burns Memorial Bridge. The island is only accessible by boat. Regattas on the lake Competitive rowing teams first came to Lake Quinsigamond in 1857. Finding the lake ideal for such crew regattas, avid rowers established boating clubs on the lake's shores, the first being the Quinsigamond Boating Club. More boating clubs and races followed, and soon many colleges (both local and abroad) held regattas on the lake, such as the New England Rowing Championships, the ECAC National Invitational Championship, the Eastern Sprints, the Big East Championship and the Patriot League Championship. The NEIRA championship regatta has been held on the lake since the 1950s and now features over 40 schools in 8+, 4+ and 1X divisions. Beginning in 1895, local high schools held crew races on the lake. In 1952, the lake played host to the National Olympic rowing trials. The Quinsigamond Rowing Association hosted the US Rowing Masters National Championship in 2005, 2012 and 2016. Mandaean ritual use The Mandaean-American community of Worcester regularly performs masbuta (baptism) rituals in Lake Quinsigamond. Notes References Perna, Michael P. Jr. (1997). Remembering Lake Quinsigamond: From Steamboats to White City. Worcester: Chandler House Press. Southwick, Albert B. (1994). Once-Told Tales of Worcester County. Worcester: DATABOOKS. External links Quinsigamond Rowing Association Lake Quinsigamond Watershed Association Lake Quinsigamond and White City Worcester Boat Club Worcester County Search and Rescue Team MassWildlife map and information Ramshorn Island Quinsigamond Quinsigamond Shrewsbury, Massachusetts Quinsigamond Geography of Worcester, Massachusetts Rivers in Mandaeism