Who Has Gone Camping?

A Lake is Formed Two Ways

Man Made Natural

Recreational

Agriculture

Flood Control

Power Generation

Why Make A Lake?

The History of Lake

WallenpaupackAn Overview presentation by Nick DelBuono

Geography

Economics

Environmental History

BE ON THE LOOKOUT……….

First successful settlement in 1774

Local Indian Tribe: Leni Lenape

“Wahlinkpapek”

Wallenpaupack

In The Beginning….

means “Streams of swift and slow water”

Saw Mills

Silk Mills

Glass Factories

19th Century

River as power source

5,700 – acre area

3 ½ Miles

1,280 feet

Pennsylvania Power and Light Company or

PP&L

Construction

1924

Remove 27 roads

Remove 3 bridges

Clear the 5,700 acre lake bed of trees and brush

Remove the village of Wilsonville

Process

Changes

Before After

Before After

Before After

Completed in 1926

Between 8 and 10 million dollars

2,700 men

8 million kilowatts

All Said and Done…

Present dayRecreation

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Conclusion….

= Human-Environment Interaction

Environmental Historians

Humans+

Economics

Barbe, Walter. Reed,Kurt. History of Wayne Country PA (1798-1998). Honesdale: Wayne County Historical Society, 1995.

Hawley-Lake Wallenpaupack Chamber of Commerce. Wallenpaupack. Pike/Wallenpaupack Historical Society, 2001.

Mathews, Alfred. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe Counties PA. Philadelphia: R.T. Peck & Co, 1886.

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References

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