Connecticut western news., 1907-09-19
THE BEAUTIFUL
 SALISBURY LAKES
WASR!NEE AND WASHlNING TWINS

Famous Summer Resort-Eighty Cot
 tages and Many Tents - The True
 Gateway to the Berkshires "-The
 Elaborate ScoviIIe Mansion.
 Special correspondence to The Hart ford Courant, under a Canaan date line, has the following to say about Twin Lakes.
 Some one has sad that the combina- tion of hills and mountains is the most beautiful thing in nature and when one finds two lakes, one seven and the other four miles in circumference, with the sun rising over the eastern hills and range of mountains in the near west whose line of beauty is revealed with the setting sun, he realizes why the Twin Lakes of Salisbury are becoming every year more popular.
 The mountains in the west are the Taghkanic range, the continuation of the Berkshire Hills making this the true Gateway to the Berkshires. " Conspicuous among the peaks is Bear Mountain, on which monument erected by Robbins Battell of Norfolk, marks the highest point in Connecticut, 2,355 feet. A short distance north of Bear Mountain is seen the historic Mount Everett, ;2,6O0 feet, second in height only to Greylock of the Massa- chusetts mountains. The lakes are not twin in shape or size.
 The names Washinee and Washining have become associated with these lakes, but James Hammond Trumbull, in his book entitled "Connecticut Indian Names, " says that these are local mis- nomers and the true Indian names were Panaheconnic and sHokonkomok. Tradi- ton gives us many an interesting legend. The site of Toms (the chief of the Weatogue Hndians) wigwam IS pointed out on high cliff; an old Indian rurying ground on the northern end Of the lake has been destroyed only within the last five years; a famous battlefield @ half mile from the lake is shown, where many arrow heads have been fonnd.
 About fifty years ago wealthy man named Bement came to Twin Lakes, bought 8 part of the shore line and planned a palace, He built marble spring which still furnishes water to some of the campers, "a well laid stone wall, but fAancial difficulties compelled him to abandon his scheme. He was the first man who thought of making @ summer home at Twin Lakes, but noth- ing further developed after his unsuc- cessful plan Aexeept few who camped in tents) until about twelve years ago, when few cottages were built. To day there are about eighty cottages and several tents. In the larger lake is a well wooded island of thirty acres, now owned by David Reed of Bridgeport and John Alvord of Torrington. During the eos and 7o's it was pasture land and cattle were brought across from the northern shore of the lake or made to ford the more shallow water. At this time the cave on Lake Washinee, which today is of great geological interest, but considered unsafe to explore. was the center of interest and a house was built over the entrance. where suits, torches and guide could be obtained to explore the many subterranean chambers and passages which extended out underneath the lake.
 In walking along the western lake shore of Panaheconnie one comes first to the old Miles farmhouse, recently pur- chased by Rudolph Keppler, ex-presi- dent of the New York Stock Exchange, then the cottage of Charles w. Riecks, cashier of the Liberty National Bank of New York, cottages belonging to the Lumbs of Poughkeepsie, H. H. Burdick of the Travellers Insurance Company, R. D. DeLamater and James Eadie of Hart fond, William J. Anderson of Mt. Vernon, N. Y. On the northwestern shore is the bungalow cottage cottage of Charles Blake of the Hartford Steam Boiler In spection and Insurance Company, the Twin Lakes Hotel, Thomas O'Hara's farmhouse where a generation ago Ernest Pease sketched and painted the beautiful pictures which were all about him. .... # #..
 Down the highway is the residence of Henry Setzer of Bridgeport, George I. Roberts of New Rochelle, Miss Bartlett of Providence, s. A. Eddy of Canaan, Richmond P. Paine of Norfolk and Judge A. T. Roraback, whose property stretches along the lake shore for about three-quarters of mile.
 Here the traveller leaves the highway and enters the pine woods which skirt the eastern shore of the lake for mile and is the property of w. A. Miles.