Lake Matoaka, Mill pond at College of William & Mary campus, Williamsburg, United States.
Lake Matoaka covers 40 acres within College Woods, featuring a dam crossed by Jamestown Road and reaching depths of 4.8 meters.
The water body began as Archer's Hope Swamp before 1700, when private landowners constructed a dam on College Creek to create a mill pond.
The college renamed the water body in the 1920s to honor Pocahontas, using her birth name Matoaka from the Powhatan Native American tradition.
A boathouse operates from the Near Side section, connected to the William & Mary campus through paths near the campus police department.
Scientists discovered an undescribed species of amphipod and a population of least brook lampreys in the streams feeding the western part of the lake.
Location: Williamsburg
GPS coordinates: 37.26611,-76.72333
Latest update: March 13, 2025 22:25
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