Then & Now: Argyle Lake's Waterfalls

The best thing about our communities is our ability to take a peak back into the past and see the visual changes our forefathers made on our the places we live.

Occasionally, we here at Patch will dig up or find some older photographs, videos and more to share with the community to do a bit of time travel into what was and, now, what is.

Argyle Lake is one of the village's most striking attractions with its natural beauty and, well, not-so-natural beauty. The lake, in fact, was not always called Argyle – it was originally named Blythebourne Lake. When the Argyle Hotel was built in the late 1800's, the builders renamed the lake as well.

The waterfalls, however, have been there almost 100 years. They were built in and around the time the park was donated to the care of the village in 1921 by J. Stanley Foster,Esq.

In the photo above, the waterfalls as they originally appeared before the stone version we know and love today was created.