{{short description|Lake in New Jersey, US}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{More footnotes|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox park | name = {{#property:name}} | image = 2024-09-22 12 56 16 View northwest across Lake Atsion within Wharton State Forest in Shamong Township, Burlington County, New Jersey.jpg | image_size = | image_alt = | image_caption = Lake Atsion in the New Jersey Pine Barrens | map = USA New Jersey#USA | map_caption = Location in New Jersey##Location in United States | type = | location = | nearest_city = | coordinates = {{coord|format=dms|display=title,inline}} | coords_ref = | area = | created = | operator = | visitation_num = | status = | designation = | open = | website = {{Official website}} | module = }} {{Infobox body of water | name = {{#property:name}} | image = | caption = | image_bathymetry = | caption_bathymetry = | location = Atsion, New Jersey,<br>United States | coordinates = {{coord|format=dms|display=inline}} | type = Reservoir | inflow = Mullica River | outflow = Mullica River | catchment = | basin_countries = United States | length = | width = | pushpin_map=New Jersey | area = | depth = | max-depth = | volume = | residence_time = | shore = | elevation = {{convert|14|m|order=flip}}<ref>{{gnis|874419}}</ref> | islands = | cities = }} '''Atsion Lake''' is a man-made lake in Wharton State Forest in the Pine Barrens, in the community of Atsion, Burlington County, New Jersey. The lake is part of the Mullica River. It offers boating, hiking, fishing, swimming and camping facilities, and cross-country skiing in the winter.
==History== The name Atsion comes from the Lenni Lenape Unami language. It was the name for the strong, cedar-colored stream in which the tribe called Atsayunk, or Atsiunc.<ref>"Iron in The Pines: The Story of New Jersey's Ghost Towns and Bog Iron" Pg. 31. Arthur Dudley Pierce. [https://books.google.com/books?id=aV-zFhKjT0MC&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq= Book available online]</ref> In late 1765, under Charles Read, Atsion became the site of an iron forge making bog iron in American Revolutionary times, and produced materiel for American forces. After the war, the area produced iron stoves, and a grist mill, saw mills and a paper mill were added. Still later, cotton and peanuts were grown. The state bought Atsion for Wharton State Forest in 1954.
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==External links== *{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20030712185722/http://nynjctbotany.org/njoptofc/atsion.html NY-NJ-CT Botany Online: Lake Atsion]}} *[http://www.state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests/parks/wharton.html New Jersey Department of Parks and Forests] *{{GNIS|874419}}
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