Madison Lake Dam is a

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located on Deer Creek, about east of

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in Madison County,

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, at . Madison Lake Dam was originally planned out when a piece of land was donated to the state on which to build a lake. The Ohio Division of Conservation built a dam across Deer Creek, and the lake was filled by 1947. In 1950, the newly created

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took over the site, and it has since become part of the Madison Lake State Park.

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