Exploration for copper in this area of the First Watchung Mountain may date back to at least the 1600's. Crushed ore may have been used for tools and decoration by the Lenape tribe of Native Americans. Another story holds that Hessian soldiers held . . . — — Map (db m196982) HM
In the early years of the Watchung Reservation, park visitors could swim at a beach along the lake shore behind you, and could change into swim suits at a bathhouse at this location. Aquatic carnivals at the lake drew hundreds of participants for . . . — — Map (db m213767) HM
