Lake Sylva is an 11-acre man-made lake along the
Shabakunk Creek
The Shabakunk Creek is a tributary of the Assunpink Creek in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States.U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed May 26, 2013 Via the Assunpink, its ...
on the campus of
The College of New Jersey
The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) is a public university in Ewing Township, New Jersey. It is part of New Jersey's public system of higher education. Established in 1855 as the New Jersey State Normal School, TCNJ was the first normal school, or ...
in
Ewing
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,
Mercer County,
New Jersey
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,
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.
The lake was created when an earthen dam was constructed across the Shabakunk in the 1920s by a local landowner, prior to the construction of the current college campus. It once contained several islands, but these were removed during a dredging project in 1988-1989.
The lake is adjacent to
Lake Ceva, and together the two lakes are the basis of the name of the
Hillwood Lakes section of Ewing.
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