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Lake Massapoag is a , natural, springfed lake located in Sharon, Massachusetts. The name Massapoag is Algonquin, meaning "large water".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sharon Massachusetts, 1890 )〕 Lake Massapoag is the headwater of the Canoe River, which flows south to join the Taunton River and empty into Narragansett Bay. It is also the headwaters of the Massapoag brook, which flows into the Neponset River. ==History== In the 18th century, workers deepened the outlet of the lake to draw the water down in order to extract bog iron for the smelting industry. Lake Massapoag was the site of a large 19th-century ice business, with an enormous wooden icehouse at the eastern end of the lake. Because of the lake and the fact that Sharon is at a slightly higher elevation than the surrounding towns, and because it is located on the main rail line going south from Boston, the shores of the lake developed into a minor summer resort with several large hotels, summer camps and cottage colonies. Temple Adath Sharon was built as a summer synagogue, and the houses around it, now occupied year-round, were once summer cottages. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lake Massapoag」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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