Greenwood Lake (other)
Greenwood Lake is a lake in Orange County, New York and West Milford, Passaic County, New Jersey. Greenwood Lake may also refer to: * Greenwood Lake, New York, a village in Orange County * Greenwood Lake (Lake County, Minnesota), a lake * Greenwood Lake (Nova Scotia) This is a list of lakes in Nova Scotia. Cape Breton Island All Four Counties * Bras d'Or Lake Cape Breton Regional Municipality * Anse aux Cannes Pond *The Barachois *Bear Cove Pond *Bear Gulch Ponds * Beaverdam Pond * Belle Lake * Be ...

Greenwood Lake
Greenwood Lake is an interstate lake approximately long, straddling the border of New York and New Jersey. It is located in the Town of Warwick and the Village of Greenwood Lake, New York (in Orange County) and West Milford, New Jersey (in Passaic County). It is the source of the Wanaque River. The lake was originally called "Quampium" by the Munsee Native Americans who lived there. It was renamed "Long Pond" by Europeans, who settled the area in the 18th century for farming and ironmaking, and eventually came to be re-christened "Greenwood Lake." It was dammed up by Peter Hasenclever of The American Company to increase the size of the lake for water power used downstream at the Long Pond Ironworks.History of Greenwood Lake
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Greenwood Lake, New York
Greenwood Lake is a village in Orange County, New York, United States, in the southern part of the town of Warwick. As of the United States 2010 Census, the village population was 3,154. It is part of the Poughkeepsie– Newburgh– Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport Combined Statistical Area. History Greenwood Lake was settled by Europeans as a farming community in the 1700s in the area of an earlier village occupied by the Munsee Indians. The Munsees, considered a branch of the Lenape people (also known as the Delaware), were Algonquian speakers who called the lake ''Quampium.'' Some of the farms at the head of the lake were purchased by the Morris Canal and Banking Company in 1837, and portions of these properties were inundated after a dam was built that same year. It greatly increased the size of the lake to its current condition. The enlarged lake attracted tourists, and a grand hotel operate ...
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Greenwood Lake (Lake County, Minnesota)
Greenwood Lake is a lake in Lake County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Greenwood Lake was named for George C. Greenwood, a pioneer merchant. In 2021, the Greenwood Fire began near the lake and was named after it. See also *List of lakes in Minnesota This is a list of lakes of Minnesota. Although promoted as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", Minnesota has 11,842 lakes of or more. The 1968 state survey found 15,291 lake basins, of which 3,257 were dry. If all basins over 2.5 acres were counted, Minn ... References Lakes of Minnesota Lakes of Lake County, Minnesota {{LakeCountyMN-geo-stub ...
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