Lake Dunmore
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Lake Dunmore Trouts Pond |
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| Geographical location | Addison County , Vermont , USA | |
| Tributaries | Sucker Brook | |
| Drain | Leicester River | |
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| Coordinates | 43 ° 54'9 " N , 73 ° 4'31" W | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 173 m | |
| surface | 3.986 km² | |
| length | 5.5 km | |
| width | 1.5 km | |
| volume | 34,000,000 m³ | |
| scope | 12.9 km | |
| Maximum depth | 32.0 m | |
| Middle deep | 8.5 m | |
The Lake Dunmore , formerly Trout Pond (dt .: "Trout" according to a frequently fished species here) is a lake on the western edge of the Green Mountains in Addison County in the US state of Vermont . The lake lies at the foot of Mount Moosalamoo on the edge of the Green Mountain National Forest . The lake is developed for tourism and is primarily used in summer. In the south of the lake, separated by a narrow isthmus , is the smaller Fern Lake - without any connection to Lake Dunmore .
Lake Dunmore is a remnant of the Champlain Sea formed in the last Ice Age : an Ice Age depression in the ground that is filled with water by the Sucker Brook and a multitude of small, nameless tributaries from the adjacent mountains. The outflow into the Leicester River is regulated by an artificial dam.
The lake is named after a governor of the New York colony, the Earl of Dunmore, who ruled in 1770 and 1771 and sold some land for settlement during this time. Lake Dunmore was on one of those pieces of land. The lake has been used for tourism since the beginning of the 20th century at the latest. In the period from 1900 to the 1930s, Oscar F. Schroeder, of German descent, operated excursions on the lake with his steamboat Elise . Today a campsite and a holiday home park open up the east bank of the lake. They are connected to the transportation network by Vermont State Route 53 . The Branbury State Park , a landscape protection area of the Vermont authorities, and the Green Mountain State Park to the east ensure the tourist development.
Web links
- Water depth map of the watershed management
- Branbury State Park on the website of the managing authority (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lake Dunmore in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed October 1, 2014
- ^ Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . tape 3 . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 65 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Samuel Swift: History of Addison County . Middlebury 1859, p. 69 . Online versions and scans on archive.org
- ↑ Illustrated short biography on the homepage of the Lake Dunmore Lake Dunmore / Fern Lake Association (English)