Beebe Lake (Ithaca, New York)

Beebe Lake is a reservoir in Ithaca, New York, located on the campus of Cornell University.[1] The lake was formed when Ezra Cornell constructed a dam on Fall Creek, above Triphammer Falls, to provide power to the mills owned by Jeremiah S. Beebe,[2] building a tunnel 200 feet long and 15 feet high to channel the water.[3] The lake is dredged approximately once a decade in order to prevent it from returning to its original wetland state.[2]

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

References
  1. "Beebe Lake". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  2. 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.
  3. Bishop, Morris (2014). "II. Ezra Cornell". A History of Cornell. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801455377.

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