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Window into History: Lost Village of Lake Kitchawan keeps its secrets

By Maureen Koehl on May 12, 2015
Lewisboro Ledger
 
 
…There is one last mystery to be solved before we leave Lake Kitchawan. Ron told me about three large, probably flat-bottomed boats sunk in the lake. As near as can be determined, the boats are about 30 feet long with a 10-foot beam. Where did they come from? What was their purpose in the rather small lake with no access to a larger body of water? Do they date as far back at the early 19th Century, as Ron thinks they might, and if so, might they have been used for transporting logs down the lake from a hillside logging operation?...

https://www.lakekitchawan.com/the-lost-village.html


Was an elephant buried in a local lake?

July-August 2016
TownVibe Bedford
By Nancy Claus
 
…Ron Egloff, a second-generation Lake Kitchawan resident, is the go-to man for questions about the lake...
 …there is one mystery even he can’t resolve: why are three large barge-style boats laying at the bottom of the lake?
“I found them diving when I was a kid, and it’s bothered me ever since,” he says. “They are 30 feet long and eight feet wide with two-foot gunnels, and appear to be from the 1800s.”

The relatively small lake has no access to larger bodies of water, so where did they come from? And what was their purpose?  

http://www.townvibe.com/Bedford/July-August-2016/Was-an-elephant-buried-in-a-local-lake/
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