Lake Carasaljo, Lakewood, NJ
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94RedRover
N 40° 05.408 W 074° 13.143
18T E 566574 N 4438053
In 1883, the Metedeconck River was dammed to create Lake Carasaljo for the site of the Bergen Iron Works, contributing to the existence of Lakewood Township, New Jersey.
Waymark Code: WM5K76
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 01/17/2009
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"Around LAKE CARASALJO, with its borders of pines, cedars, and laurel, elaborate cottages and grounds were built by Astors, Vanderbilts, Golds, Rockefellers, Tilfords, Kipps, Rhinelanders, and other socially prominent New Yorkers of the '90s...
--- New Jersey: A Guide to its Present and Past, 1939"
Joseph Woolston Brick, (for whom Brick Township, NJ is named) had three daughters: Caroline, Sarah (nicknamed Sally) and Jospehine. Lake Carasaljo is named after his three daughters. Brick named the sister lake, Manetta, to his wife.
Local legend reads that the lake was named after them when all three drowned in it...however history read that the girls were alive when the lake was named.
Georgian Court University, on the shores of Lake Carasaljo, was once the estate of the wealthy George Jay Gould.