1907.
August 8
Lake Umbagog
time were under cultivation before 1830 or 1835 while some
then occupied have since been deserted and permitted 
to revert to nearly their primitive condition. Indeed it
is not improbable that the total area of cleared land
is now less, rather than greater, than it was sixty
or seventy years ago. This is certainly true of the upper
part of the lake which is now everywhere bordered by woods
and frequented only by sportsmen & fishermen whereas there
was once a flourishing farm at the head of the Tyler
Cove and near Leonard's Pond a large farm in which
coarse hay, cut in the marshes about the outlet, was
stored for winter use.
First Settlement of the Region (3)