“A History of Megunticook Lake”

“A History of Megunticook Lake” April 9

                 

Paul Leeper, president of the Megunticook Watershed Association, will present an illustrated talk on “A History of Megunticook Lake: Prehistory through the 20th Century,” at the Camden Public Library on Thursday evening, April 9, at 7:00 pm. All are welcome. The talk is part of the Library’s “Maritime Month” celebration of local history and marine culture.

Leeper will talk about the pre-history of the Megunticook region and how the lake was formed, how the indigenous people used the lake, and what it may have looked like pre-settlement. We know from early maps that Megunticook Lake was simply a wide part of the river, known as Canaan Pond in the early days. The talk will also cover when the first dams were built and expanded the lake. Leeper will also talk about what a watershed is, particularly about the Megunticook watershed and about the Megunticook Watershed Association. He will give an historic overview of water levels then and now, and a history of the lake through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, covering the lake today and threats to the watershed, habitat, ecology, and human environment.

Photos:

Detail from a 1765 chart referring to Megunticook Lake, in the years before it was dammed, as “Canaan Pond.”

Excursion steamer and sightseeing barge on Lake Megunticook in its heyday.

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