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But it is deep enough to keep some secrets as well. The sculpture of Tuskawanta, the Setauket Indian princess, made from a tree trunk which overlooks the lake Dennis A.
The legend has been enough to spur a small cottage industry. Share This Article. This connection has played a role in some of the myths and mysteries surrounding the Lake. There is much debate over the origins of the name Lake Ronkonkoma. Currently three different town governments including Brookhaven, Islip and Smithtown have controlling interest in the land surrounding Lake Ronkonkoma, although Lake Ronkonkoma itself is controlled by the Town of Islip, The reasons behind not one town having control over the lands surrounding Lake Ronkonkoma goes back to the multiple land claims of the areas surrounding Lake Ronkonkoma by four Native American tribes including the Unkechaugs, Nissequogues, Setaukets and the Secatogues.
These four tribes sold the rights to their land separately to different colonists. In the late s and early s, the Lake had become a popular tourist area. At the time there were not many permanent residents living in the surrounding areas at Lake Ronkonkoma. However, all that changed because of two men named Vanderbilt and Ford.
Only twenty six years old at the time, but also heir to a very wealthy family, William K. His goal was to inspire American ingenuity in car manufacturing to match and even surpass European automobile manufacturing.
The Vanderbilt Cup Race ran from to They were one of the most spectacular sporting events in the country, let alone just the New York area. Hundreds of thousands of fans came out to watch the races which proved to be dangerous at times. Because of the danger of the races William K. Vanderbilt set out to build a road that would head east on Long Island called Motor Parkway.
Motor Parkway was built in various stages, but it eventually ended at Lake Ronkonkoma. The Hotel opened in If you were one of the lucky ones who vacationed at Peteit Trianion in the s, an order of Filet Mignon on the menu would have cost you one dollar.
As roadways were built and cars became mass produced and more affordable, families and camps would flock to Lake Ronkonkoma for getaways during the summer months. The Lake was only about a half mile away as Nesconset is one of the towns that borders the Lake Ronkonkoma area. My father who had grown up in Manhattan and lived there during the 30s 40s and 50s would tell so many stories of how city kids belonged to camps that would go out to Lake Ronkonkoma during the summers.
It was a different world then. It was a little surreal for many of those city kids who grew up to be working class people who always viewed Lake Ronkonkoma as a summer resort to actually be moving there to live.
Lake Ronkonkoma in the 70s and 80s was a far different place than it had been in the first half of the twentieth century. It's free! Sign up. Looking for a different adventure? Please note Use of geocaching. Please take this knowledge into consideration before you plan to visit. A kettle or kettle hole is a small, often round depression formed as a result of glacial movement. It is formed when a large piece of ice breaks away from the edge of a retreating glacier, and becomes partially buried under sediment deposited by the glacier.
After it melts, this fragment leaves a depression in the landscape. A Kettle Pond or Kettle Lake is formed when water fills up the kettle hole. Most kettles are circular in shape because melting blocks of ice tend to become rounded; distorted or branching depressions may result from extremely irregular ice masses. Two types of kettles are recognized: a depression formed from a partially buried ice mass by the sliding of unsupported sediment into the space left by the ice, and a depression formed from a completely buried mass by the collapse of overlying sediment.
The surface of Long Island is made up of many varied and interesting landforms. Each natural land feature originated through the action of some past or present geologic process. On Long Island these processes can be grouped into three categories -pre-glacial, glacial and post-glacial, depending on whether they occurred before, during or after the advance of a continental glacier onto the Island.
The community name derives from Indian term for "boundary fishing place. Geologically, it is a kettle hole. When glaciers covered a large part of the earth, a glacier covered the northern section of Long Island. As the glacier moved, it carved out this large hole, now Lake Ronkonkoma.
Lake Ronkonkoma was formed when a large block of ice became detached from the glacial front during the Pleistocene Glaciation, an event that occurred some 17, years ago. The indigenous Indian tribes dominated Lake Ronkonkoma, NY until the arrival of the British settlers in the early seventeenth century. Following the establishment of the initial English settlement in the Lake Ronkonkoma area, no major developments were recorded in the area for many years until the mids when the Long Island Railroad was completed.
The railroad opened up the lake area to the outside world. Consequently, the area quickly transformed from a remote farming community into a prized summer resort.
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