Dryden Lake Dam - Dryden, NY
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N 42° 27.850 W 076° 16.828
18T E 394728 N 4702108
Originally the dam was for mills. It still keeps shallow weedy glacial lake waters higher. There is fishing in the lake. There is also a town park, a walking trail, a boat launch (electric motors), birding and a golf course.
Waymark Code: WMQPEP
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 03/13/2016
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"The Dryden Lake area today has farms, parks, trails, and a golf course, but it used to be a lumbering and milling area before settling down to farming and (long since gone to refrigeration) and ice-making...James Lacy, the youngest one of the five brothers who came to Dryden from New Jersey in 1801, was the first to settle near its shores, and he soon built a dam at the outlet, thereby enlarging its natural capacity and furnishing power for a saw-mill which he soon constructed for the purpose of manufacturing lumber from the abundance of pine which was there found. At one time five saw-mills were operated upon the outlet flowing from the Lake before Dryden village was reached and at least one saw-mill existed at the head of the Lake upon its inlet...Some species of fish were found naturally existing in the waters of the Lake when first discovered, but others, including pickerel and perch, were afterward introduced and have multiplied, furnishing excellent fishing for an inland town, which is appreciated by the inhabitants for many miles around"
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"Electric Motors Only.
There is also shore access around much of the lake along with two fishing platforms that are universally accessible...Largemouth bass, black crappie, bluegill, pumpkinseed sunfish, yellow perch, white sucker, brown bullhead, and common carp."