| Lake Mauweehoo | |
|---|---|
 Lake Mauweehoo depicted on a 1920s postcard | |
  Lake Mauweehoo | |
| Location | Sherman, Connecticut |
| Coordinates | 41°32′23″N73°29′53″W / 41.5396196°N 73.4981847°W |
| Surface area | 31 acres (13 ha) [1] |
Lake Mauweehoo is a 31-acre man-made lake in the town of Sherman, Connecticut. It was created in 1906 to support a community of people who moved to rural Connecticut from New York City.
Lake Mauweehoo was first created in 1906 by damming Glen Brook. [2] The area was settled by transplants from Brooklyn, New York who built a community of summer homes in the town of Sherman. They were led by Warren Hugh Wilson, a champion of the country life movement and rural living. The community went on to form the Mauweehoo Lake Association to fund the construction of the dam. [3] Access to the lake has remained exclusive to the residents. [4]
The lake is named for Gideon Mauwee, sachem of the Schaghticoke Tribe. [3]
Lake Mauweehoo has one outlet, Glen Brook, which drains into Squantz Pond. [4]
Lake Mauweehoo is at the beginning of the Sherman Breeding Bird Survey Route, a 25-mile route which is part of the larger North American Breeding Bird Survey. [5]
The Lake Mauweehoo Dam is a combination earth embankment and stone masonry concrete dam approximately 225 feet long and 22 feet high. A stone masonry wall averaging approximately 8.5 feet wide and a 24 inch thick concrete facia on the upstream side of the masonry wall runs the full length of the dam. Earth fill lying on a 2:1 slope is on the upstream side of the above-mentioned wall and stone rubble and miscellaneous debris on a 1:1.5 slope lies on the downstream side of the wall. [6]
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