Beebe Lake (Ithaca, New York)

Beebe Lake is a reservoir within Fall Creek in Ithaca, New York, located on the campus of Cornell University. The lake was formed when Ezra Cornell constructed a dam above Triphammer Falls to provide power to the mills owned by Jeremiah S. Beebe,[1] building a tunnel 200 feet long and 15 feet high to channel the water.[2] The lake is dredged approximately once a decade in order to prevent it from returning to its original wetland state.[1]

Eastern part of Beebe Lake, with Bradfield Hall visible in the background

References

Bowers, Bill; McNulty-Bowers, Eileen (2010). Explorer's Guide: 50 Hikes in Central New York's Leatherstocking Country. Woodstock, Vermont: The Countryman Press. p. 280. ISBN 9781581577495.
Bishop, Morris (2014). "II. Ezra Cornell". A History of Cornell. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801455377.

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[bowers-1] Bowers, Bill; McNulty-Bowers, Eileen (2010). Explorer's Guide: 50 Hikes in Central New York's Leatherstocking Country. Woodstock, Vermont: The Countryman Press. p. 280. ISBN 9781581577495.

[2] Bishop, Morris (2014). "II. Ezra Cornell". A History of Cornell. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801455377.