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LAKE CANADOHTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Relics of the Past, Memories for the Future

Mission & Vision

A reverence of and appreciation for our community must be passed on to our children and others by understanding our community’s historic heritage. It should be recognized that historic heritage is more than buildings, circumstances, or inhabitants – it is the result of all actions by human association or environmental episodes, historic, and prehistoric.

To this we devote our efforts in developing a history center that gives back to our community through respect. This center will honor the unique historic cultural heritage of the Lake Canadohta area. In this way, we can develop our community’s future through education, environmental awareness, and historic preservation.

It is our goal to develop an awareness of our community’s uniqueness so that our children and those who come after us will understand their place in history. In doing so, it is our hope that they will have a strong foundation from which to write the future of Lake Canadohta.

In this we band together as the Lake Canadohta Historical Society & History Center, a repository of our community’s past and foundation for our future.

We will protect this community’s natural history, archaeological context, geological make-up, and historic and prehistoric artifacts, with veneration for the significance of Native Americans and every culture that has enriched our community.

~The Lake Canadohta Area Historical Society ® 2020

HOW THE

HISTORICAL SOCIETY BEGAN!

Many years prior to 2019, Pamela Ashoff Roberts and Debbie Corliss Prichard started talking about the importance of having an Historical Society at Canadohta Lake. But then, sometime during 2019, they got a lot more serious!

The first official meeting was held at the Fisherman’s Tavern on October 19, 2019. They brainstormed, visited other societies, and developed a plan to launch The Lake Canadohta Historical Society.

The Lake Canadohta Historical Society was officially incepted as a 501c3 on July 20, 2020.

Since then, many cherished relics, artifacts, articles, and photos have been shared, reminisced, & collected.

Community interest & involvement began to grow which then led to the formation of the Lake Canadohta Historical Society Board.

A Peek Inside...

Our Community Action

CELEBRATING BEN RUGGLES!

Ben Ruggles Saved Canadohta Lake from Becoming a Private Lake

In the early 1900’s, a group of 40 men who called

themselves the Canadohta Club, made millions in the

oil business in Titusville.
They bought all the land around Canadohta Lake

hoping to make it a privately-owned lake for their club.

There was one parcel owned by Ben Ruggles and a few of his partners that they could not buy. Ben and his partners kept this parcel in an effort to keep the lake from going private.

The Ruggles parcel gave the public access to the lake

without going over the club property.

Ruggles was arrested several times on the lake by an armed patrol that was hired by the club to keep out trespassers.

The club built a small dam where Oil Creek flows from the
lake and claimed that Canadohta was man-made.

Local residents bombed the dam and peppered the patrol boats with buckshot. Ruggles was arrested again and when the case went to court, he convinced the Crawford County Court Judges that the lake had been there long before the club built the dam.

His proof was producing the photograph (above) of the steamboat that had been taken many years before the club came into existence.

In 1923 the judge ordered that the lake be

“Held in Trust by the Commonwealth For the People

and Cannot be Closed.”

~Thank you Mr. Ben Ruggles!

The Old Hotel, George Eisentrout

Canadohta Roller Rink, Rick & Andy Mason

Lincolnville History, Dale Burgess & Gayle Amonn

The Raiders Storytellers, Gilbert Scouten, Jerry Williams

Cemeteries & Founders, Baxter Wellmon

Indigenous People, Leon Sam Briggs

Camp Athodonac, Bruce & Carol Mixer, Dr. Rob Martsolf

Enjoy Videos of The Speakers!

BURIAL GROUNDS PRESERVATION

Cleaning headstones in Bloomfield Burial Grounds

New Signage

Bloomfield School Reunion

Mix & Mingle Ice Cream Social

Show Us Your Treasures, Scan & Go

Afghan Raffle, Karen Ricke

'Canadohta Lake Breezes Forever' Dodie Randa, Local Author

1952 Framed Map of Canadohta Lake

Canadohta Bench, Bill Steuernagel

50/50 Tickets

Crawford Gives Participant

Museum Pieces

Digitizing Historical Documents

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