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    • Edge Effect
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      • Golden Alexander
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      • Striped Cream Violet
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      • Butterfly Weed
      • Jerusalem Artichoke
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Lacawac and the History of its Land
The Early Years


​The evolution of Lacawac Sanctuary is a wonderful and interesting history!
  • Two dugout canoes found in Lake Lacawac indicate this area was originally inhabited by the Leni-Lenape (Len-ah-pee) Indians.
  • In 1754 heirs of the William Penn family purchased a 12,500-acre tract of land in Wayne County called  Wallenpaupack  Manor, which was a private in-holding within the land granted to Perm by the British Crown.
  • ​The Wallenpaupack Manor was acquired, in 1793, by the Honorable James Wilson. Wilson was a U.S. Supreme Court judge, and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. 
  • Mr. Burton Morss, who owned and operated a sawmill and tannery on the Wallenpaupack River at Ledgedale, acquired much of Wallenpaupack Manor in 1849.  Morss would fish Lake Lacawac which was known as an excellent bass lake.


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  • Home
  • About
    • Sources
    • Contact Us
  • Maurice Broun Trail
    • Fields & Meadows
    • Stone Walls
    • Gypsy Moth Caterpillars
    • Oak Trees >
      • White Oak
      • Red Oak
      • Black Oak
    • Raccoons
    • Owls
    • Snakes >
      • Snake ID
    • Bats >
      • Bat Houses
  • Lake Lacawac Trail
    • White Pine
    • Eastern Hemlock
    • Bog Plants >
      • Sphagnum Moss
      • Blueberry Bushes
      • Pickerelweed
    • Lake Lacawac
    • Glacial Bog
    • Diversity of Birds
    • Glacial Erratic Rock
    • American Black Bear >
      • Diet
      • Population
      • Reproduction
  • Big Lake Trail
    • Food Web
    • North American Beaver
    • Osprey
    • Watershed
    • Japanese Barberry >
      • Characteristics
      • Threat to Forest
      • Control Methods
    • Minerals & Rocks >
      • Minerals
      • Igneous Rocks
      • Sedimentary Rocks
      • Metamorphic Rocks
      • Identification
    • Sugar Maple
    • Streams
    • Hydroelectric Dam
    • Lake Wallenpaupack >
      • Electricity Generation
      • Recreation
      • Watershed Management
    • Wild Grapevines
    • Hayscented Fern
  • Carriage-Lakefront Trails
    • Phytoplankton
    • Harmful Algal Blooms
    • Riparian Zones
    • Bioindicators
    • Lake Macroinvertebrates
    • Lake Succession >
      • Oligotrophic Lake
      • Mesotrophic Lake
      • Eutrophic Lake
    • Lake Formation
    • Amphibians
    • Native Fish
    • Lake Research
    • Aquatic Plants
    • Zooplankton
    • Stratification
    • Lake Hydrology
    • Lake Chemistry
    • Monitoring for Preservation
    • Local Research with Global Implications
  • Historic Great Camp Trail
    • Connell Park
    • Sustainable Forestry
    • Hemlock Woolly Adelgid
    • Early Years
    • Field Station
  • Ledges Trail
    • Deer Exclosures
    • Geological Faults >
      • Normal Fault
      • Reverse Fault
      • Strike-slip Fault
    • Wild Orchids
    • Ledges
    • Ferns
    • Mosses & Lichen
    • Vernal Pools
    • Mushrooms
  • Watres Trail
    • Edge Effect
    • Hummocks and Hollows
  • Visitors Center
    • Native Plant Garden >
      • Golden Alexander
      • Black-Eyed Susan
      • Striped Cream Violet
      • Scarlet Beebalm
      • Blazing Star
      • Blue Moon
      • Blue Flag Iris
      • Tickseed
      • Coneflower
      • Butterfly Weed
      • Jerusalem Artichoke
      • Monkshood
      • Joe-Pye Weed
      • Mayapple
      • Blue Wood Sedge
      • Little Blue Stem
    • Bees
    • Weather Station
  • Partner Ridge Trail
  • Warbler Trail