09/25/2026
Last October New Hampshire Dam Bureau drained Mirror Lake in order to repair and replace parts of the dam on our property. We were excited and so curious about what we'd see. I have to admit that I was a little let down. I had hoped artifacts or other clues to the lake's history would be exposed. But to my untrained eye, it just looked muddy.
So I was thrilled to find this article that opened my eyes to what we really saw when they drained the lake and what it shows about the history of Mirror Lake.
Thanks Hubbard Brook Research Foundation for this and your many decades of important work.
By Geoff Wilson and Raisa Kochmaruk. Mirror Lake’s original 19th-century dam (pictured above) is in the open air for the first time in 150 years. This fall, Mirror Lake’s…