Candlewood Lake (CT) (Images of America)

Everything you need to know about the creation of Candlewood Lake in New Milford, CT

Live in New Milford, CT - Candlewood Lake part of our area. Wonderful history of the lake.

This book thoroughly explores the history of Candlewood Lake with an incredible collection of photographs which depict every aspect of the process of flooding the valley and really provide a wonderful insight into the incredible evolution of the valley over the past 100 or so years. The authors thoughtfully describe the details of of events which created the lake as well as the results of this wonderful creating. All in all this is a great book for anyone interested in the history of Candlewood Lake.

I didn't bother finishing it. I found it not interesting, not entertaining.

Unfortunately, this is not it. One would figure that both the creation of Candlewood Lake, a project unsurpassed in its day--and its resulting splendor--would have resulted in a book packed with information and antidotal passages. What you will find is a book filled with black and white photographs, each with a brief caption underneath. At minimum, even these would have been enhanced if there had been a thumbnail of the map beside each caption which showed where these shots were taken. Strangely enough, however, the two maps of Candlewood (one prior to the lake's creation and the other a map of the lake today) are printed sideways (where west is at the top of the map) without any indication of where north is.