Nice looking little lake. Bet there's some good bass in there.
Yes there are even some Northers and I believe Muiskies in there.. I don't fish, so i'm not sure which. It started out in the early 1800s..just 2 smaller lakes with a finger of land between. There was an ashery on that finger (ashery..a place wher wood is burned for rich potash for fertilizer and other uses).
Then somebody raised the outlet, created one lake..and started the ice business. As you can see, now there are cottages..some quite luxurious, surrounding the lake. I would guess somewhat less than half are in year round use.
When it was for ice...no cottages allowed on lke..to retain pure water. I suspect it was originally choisen for ice, because it jhas 2 outlets an dno inlets..being purely spring fed from below.
It is unique, in that the norther outlet feeds north eventually entering the north tlantic at the Hudson Bay...while the southern outlet, now bu a trickle, flows south, eventually dumping into the gulf at the mouth of the Mississippi.
Years ago, it was written up by Ripley's.. Here's a later write up:
https://historicpath.com/article/lime-lake-then-and-now-136
