- Lake Kanawauke
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lake_name = Lake Kanawauke
image_lake = Kanawauke.jpg
caption_lake = Middle Lake Kanawauke
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location =Orange County, New York
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area = convert|186|acre|ha|abbr=on
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cities =Lake Kanawauke is a primarily man-made lake in
Harriman State Park . The name is Onondaga in origin, and means "place of much water". There are three parts to the lake, lower, middle and upper; the total area is convert|186|acre|km2.History
The lakes were built by the
Palisades Interstate Park Commission underWilliam A. Welch .Lower Kanawauke was built in 1915 by damming Stony Brook. It was used by the Boy Scouts for camping; by 1930 there were fourteen camps on the lake.
Middle Kanawauke was built in 1916 by damming Stillwater Creek. It was used by the
Brooklyn Boy Scouts, who erected six camps and built the convert|35|mi|km|sing=on White Bar trail system centered on the lake.Upper Kanawauke is the only natural lake of the three. In the mid-nineteenth century there was a small settlement on the lake shore. Seven Boy Scout camps were built around the lake starting in 1917, one of which became a Girl Scout camp, Camp "Quid Nunc" (Latin for "What now").
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*Myles, William J., "Harriman Trails, A Guide and History", The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, New York, N.Y., 1999.
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