Lake’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Lake. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The first white man who lived in modern-day Lake Township was Matthew Scouten (in the 1790s). Hollenback & Urquhart would later own much of the territory, and was responsible for building the first sawmill in 1839 and the first gristmill in 1840. Every mill belonging to Hollenback & Urquhart was later transferred over to the Hoffman Lumber Company. At the time, due to the abundance of trees, the lumber industry was one of the major employers in the region.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Lake’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lake’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewLake Lenape, Delaware Water Gap, 1890: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Lake, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Lake is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Lake has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Noxen School in Noxen, 6 miles away.
Lake and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Lake Lenape, Delaware Water Gap (1890) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (3) and the Library of Congress (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.