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Lake History
If you have information or articles about our Lake that your would like to share, e-mail them to: admin@lakehenrypa.org
Below are a few bits about Henry Silkman and two of six articles that appeared in The Scrantonian in 1967, that Susan Africa sent along.
In addition there is an email and photos from Betty Stoner, a long time Maplewood resident, that are of real interest.
Henry Silkman was born on January 6, 1831 in Westchester NY. Henry Silkman’s parents, William and Mary Jane came to Pennsylvania in 1838 and settled in Scranton. William Silkman was a farmer. He was also involved in contracting and real estate. William Silkman died in 1877.
Henry O Silkman moved to Wayne County in 1887 on a tract of farming land of 1,500 acres. At the time there was a large chair factory, a sawmill, a small village of tenement houses, two churches and a lake of three hundred acres now called Lake Henry. The area was developed by Washburn and Norman and was, at the time, called Forest Mills (now known as Maplewood). Henry Silkman was the financial partner of the Maplewood Chair Company. Mr. Silkman and six others had summer cottages on the lake. Mr. Silkman also had a large interest in The Consumers Ice Company which erected one of the largest ice houses in the States. The ice house shipped 30,000 tons of ice per year.
Mr. Silkman married Frances Gardner in 1863. They had three children: Bertram, Gardner and Elizabeth. Frances Gardner Silkman’s father was Dewitt Gardner of Fulton NY. He was a flour manufacturer and president of the First National Bank of Fulton.
Abounds With Floating Islands
Lake Henry—Every regional lake seems to have some unusual feature and Lake Henry’s takes top billing in this respect. . . floating islands.
It is believed that many decades ago the "floating islands" started to form from bog-like material which came from the lake bottom and gradually acquired vegetation, giving them some degree of substance.
The biggest "floating island"—from which smaller islands probably separated —went on a rampage years ago during a storm and wrecked a couple of docks.
This resulted in a strange but successful, towing project through which the "floating island" was towed down the lake and "anchored" at the present "stump Pond" location.
During that towing project, using motorboats and tow ropes, portions of the main island became settled and drifted into shallow water where they appear to have lodged.
However, there is always danger during storms or high water that the smaller "floating islands", which are not anchored, will resume drifting around the lake.
The "floating islands" probably could be eliminated without too much trouble through use of modern earthmoving equipment but there appears to be no desire about removing a threat to motorboat navigation since it also would cost Lake Henry one of its special "conversation pieces".
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Installation of Dam
Boosted Area of Water
By J. HAROLD BRISLIN
LAKE HENRY — Everyone knows that Lake Wallenpaupak is a "man-made lake" created at the cost of millions of dollars by the Pennsylvania Power and Light Co. more than four decades ago.
But a relatively small percentage of the people. . . . and this even includes some of the cottagers . . . realize that Lake Henry is also "man made" being expanded from a pond by the late Henry Silkman of Scranton by installation of a dam to allow the pond waters to accumulate over a natural valley.
And Lake Henry was "man made" by Silkman decades before PP&L even thought about the possibilities of creating Lake Wallenpaupack on the other side of Wayne County where it meets Pike County.
There are many other facts about Lake Henry of which Scranton residents are unaware — even its exact location in the Village of Maplewood since a surprisingly large number of local people have never even seen this 550 acre body of water.
In fact there is an erroneous belief that "Lake Henry" and "Maplewood" are two separate lakes since even some cottagers use "Maplewood" rather than "Lake Henry" when referring to their summer homes.
"Maplewood" is the Wayne County village part of Lake Township, in which Lake Henry is situated.
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