[1] Lacking modern bridging techniques, westward travelers had to ride around the lake's northern and southern tips.

Nine wooden piers, built into the lakebed at regular intervals, held aloft a gravel-covered plank bridge.

Due to the unstable nature of the lakebed, the nine piers settled at different levels, causing gaps to appear in the road surface.

Formed from a mixture of rock, gravel and dirt, the causeway was the first span to not sway under heavy loads.

1900, the causeway was expanded to include trolley tracks, linking downtown Worcester to the lakeside attractions.

The crossing is a two barrel steel arch bridge that consists of two separate structures supporting eastbound and westbound traffic.

Each structure is an 870-foot-long, five-span, open spandrel steel-tied deck arch, supported on two concrete abutments and four perched pile caps.

Horace H. Bigelow, a local businessman, opened a competing amusement park called White City on the Shrewsbury side in 1905.

The buyer of the White City property, Albert Shore, developed the land into a shopping center and movie theater complex shortly after the amusement park's closure.

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.

[4] The Mandaean-American community of Worcester regularly performs masbuta (baptism) rituals in Lake Quinsigamond.