The concept for a Centennial Park grew out of a recognition that we would need a more permanent place for residents and visitors to learn about Greenwood Lake’s unique history. Part education and part information, the park setting, adjacent to Orange County’s largest fresh water lake, would maximize the potential for visitors to more easily become acquainted with the historical ingredients that have contributed to making Greenwood Lake the internationally known community it has become.

Grand hotels, train service to New York City, steamboat ferries, fireworks, ice houses, sports celebrities, summer camps, bed races, and much more! Greenwood Lake was the lakeside resort for many families and the well-to-do. “Originally known as Long Pond, the lake was the homeland of Lenni Lenape, who signed a treaty in 1702 that became known as the Cheesecock Patent—trading their land to colonists from Britain, who nudged the Lenape further into the wilderness as they built their homes and businesses around the lake. The Industrial Age in the late 1700s ushered in an ironworks at Long Pond, refining ore mined at nearby Sterling Forest,” wrote By Jane Anderson in the magazine Chronogram, earlier this year.

The past will meet the present when the park is completed. The venue will enable visitors to take in the vista that’s drawn boxers and baseball players, steamboats and celebrities, in a century’s worth of lake life.