Ganoga Lake
Ganoga Lake is a natural lake in Colley Township in southeastern Sullivan County in Pennsylvania, United States. Known as Robinson's Lake and Long Pond for most of the 19th century, the lake was purchased by the Ricketts family in the early 1850s and became part of R.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Lake
- Description: natural lake Pennsylvania
- Also known as: “Long Pond”
Photo: Ruhrfisch, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Ruhrfisch, Public domain.
Photo: Ruhrfisch, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Clemuel Ricketts Mansion and Lake Rose.
Clemuel Ricketts Mansion
House
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The Clemuel Ricketts Mansion is a Georgian-style house made of sandstone, built in 1852 or 1855 on the shore of Ganoga Lake in Colley Township, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Lake Rose
Reservoir
Lake Rose is a dry lake in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It has a surface area of approximately 25 acres, and is situated in Fairmount Township.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ricketts and Mossville.
Ricketts
Hamlet
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Ricketts is a ghost town that was established as a lumber mill company town in Sullivan and Wyoming counties, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Ricketts was built in 1890 along Mehoopany Creek in both Colley Township in Sullivan County and Forkston Township in Wyoming County for sawmills of the Trexler and Turrell Lumber Company.
Mossville
Hamlet
Mossville is an unincorporated community in Fairmount Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. Mossville is situated 6 miles south of Ganoga Lake.
Ganoga Lake
- Categories: glacial lake and body of water
- Location: Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.35626° or 41° 21′ 23″ northLongitude
-76.31764° or 76° 19′ 4″ westElevation
2,260 feet (689 metres)Open location code
87H59M4J+GWOpenStreetMap ID
way 143180451OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lakeGeoNames ID
5190798Wikidata ID
Q5521461
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Satellite Map
Discover Ganoga Lake from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Catalan to Hindi—“Ganoga Lake” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Ganoga”
- Cebuano: “Ganoga Lake”
- Hindi: “गनोगा झील”
- Hindi: “गनोगा”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ricketts Cemetery and Shuttle Pond.
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