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We would like to provide the residents of  Greenwood Lake  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Greenwood Lake Home page. The Greenwood Lake Home page provides as much information as possible on Greenwood Lake. Knowing Greenwood Lake’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Greenwood Lake’s Home page, you will also find Greenwood Lake’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Greenwood Lake has a population of 3080. 52.5% of Greenwood Lake’s inhabitants are Male, and 47.5 are female. 58.8% of Greenwood Lake is married and 78.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $243,403, and the average rent is $1,283. Household median income in Greenwood Lake is $93,406, and the individual median income is $38,258. Greenwood Lake’s Ethnic is the following: White(88.1%), Hispanic(10.1%), Asian(7.5%), Native(1.7%), Black(1.1%), Other(1.1%), Multiple(0.6%).


Greenwood Lake was settled by Europeans as a farming community in the 1700s in the area of an earlier village occupied by the Munsee Indians. The Munsees, considered a branch of the Lenape people (also known as the Delaware), were Algonquian speakers who called the lake Quampium. Some of the farms at the head of the lake were purchased by the Morris Canal and Banking Company in 1837, and portions of these properties were inundated after a dam was built that same year.


It greatly increased the size of the lake to its current condition. The enlarged lake attracted tourists, and a grand hotel operated by Theron Felter was operating within the area of the village by at least 1851. The development of the village dates to 1856, when most of the available land was purchased by Solomon Caldwell.


He divided the land for sale as “hotels, villa sites and town lots.” Subsequent plot plans suggested renaming the community the “town of Avington” in 1884, and “Montelac Park” in 1890, but it remained Greenwood Lake, becoming incorporated as a village in 1924. In the ensuing years many prominent people, such as baseball star Babe Ruth and actress Greta Garbo, regularly visited the resort.


Author and composer Satella Waterstone was born in Greenwood Lake in 1875. In July 2011, director Rob Reiner's movie, "The Magic of Belle Isle" starred Morgan Freeman, Virginia Madsen and Kenan Thompson. The movie was shot entirely in Greenwood Lake.


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