Culver's Lake

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'''Culver's Lake''' (formerly '''Round Pond''') is located in Frankford Township, in Sussex County, New Jersey. Fed by Lake Owassa and Bear Swamp, Culver's Lake is the source of the West Branch of the Paulins Kill (also known as the "Culver Brook"). In the late 19th and early 20th century, the lake was used for seasonal recreation. Today, it is a private year-round community owned and operated by the Normanoch Association, a homeowners' association.<ref name=page>[http://normanoch.org/index Normanoch Association (main page)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022010036/http://www.normanoch.org/index |date=October 22, 2012 }}</ref>

The lake has a surface area of approximately 555 acres (225 ha) and a shoreline roughly six and a half miles in length. It has a maximum depth of 50 feet (15 m) and sits at an elevation of 830 feet (250 m) above sea level.<ref name=page /> It is located near Culver Gap, a wind gap in Kittatinny Mountain, and near the intersection of the Appalachian Trail with U.S. Route 206.

Culver Gap, near Culver’s Lake in Sussex County, New Jersey, has been an important route through the Kittatinny Mountain since approximately 10,000 years ago. The gap is over 400 feet (120 m) below the mountain's summit. The Lenape Native Americans used the gap to hunt and trade on both sides of the mountain. Early settlers from Pennsylvania utilized the water drop from Culver’s Lake to Branchville for various mills. Turnpikes followed the Lenape trails through the gap.

The lake is named for a local clergyman, the Reverend Jabez Collver (1731-1818), who led the Congregational Church in Wantage Township, New Jersey. On September 14, 1774, he purchased 163 acres of land east of Kittatinny Mountain near the lake. However, after the American Revolution, Collver fled to Ontario, Canada after the American Revolution due to his loyalist sympathies.<ref>Snell, James P. ''A History of Sussex and Warren Counties, New Jersey''. (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1881), 297; and Stickney, Charles E. ''A History of the Minisink Region''. (Middletown, New York: s.n., 1867), 19.</ref>

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==External links== * [http://www.normanoch.org The Normanoch Association] (the private lake community homeowners' association)

Culver's Lake Category:Lakes of Sussex County, New Jersey Category:Paulins Kill watershed Category:Frankford Township, New Jersey

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