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Lovewell Pond is the second largest pond
in Fryeburg (Kezar Pond is the largest). It is located
in the southern area of Fryeburg just east of the
Village. It is maintained by the Maine Department of
Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, and --
• is approximately
1,120 acres in size
• has an elevation
of 357 feet above sea level
• has a drainage
area calculated at 3,101 acres
• has a maximum
depth of 45 feet
• supports a
population of brown trout as well as other warmer
water species such as smallmouth bass, white perch,
yellow perch, pickerel, eels, white sucker, long
nose sucker, and hornpout.
• has about 75-80
buildings along the shoreline, with approximately 35
others with access rights to the shoreline.
Fight Brook, Mill/Wards Brook, and several smaller
unnamed streams flow into the Pond. There is an outlet
to the Saco River in the southeastern section of the
Pond. There is also a large flood plain in this area
along with associated wetlands. Because of these
features, Lovewell Pond is subject to flooding
when the Saco River Floods. During these floods, the
outlet of Lovewell Pond reverses direction and actually
flows into the pond.
This flooding phenomenon has caused a delta to form,
composed of sands carried in by the flood waters from
the sandy bottom of the Saco. Waves help to form
sandbars along with these levees. The channel of the
outlet meanders through these sand deposits.
At the north end of the Pond is an Outwash Plain
Pondshore, which is a natural plant community that is
critically imperiled in the State Of Maine. Within this
plant community are two rare plant species.
A reference to the State of Maine chart of
Lovewell Pond is found at this web site:
http://www.state.me.us/ifw/pdf/depthmaps/Region%20A/L3254A.PDF
History
According to
Shattuck's
Memorials19,
"Isaac [Lakin] was one of the six companions of John
Chamberlain, from Groton, in the
Pigwacket Fight, and was wounded on that occasion."
A footnote follows on the ancestry of Isaac Lakin;
see also the corrections to that footnote on
Shattuck's p. 387. The battle at Pigwacket, commonly
called "Lovewell's Fight" after Capt. John Lovewell
of Dunstable who commanded the company of 46
colonists, took place on 8 May 1725 on the shores of
what is now Lovewell's Pond in Fryeburg, Maine.
Lovewell's company went to suppress the Indians in
the region and hoped to collect bounties on Indian
scalps, but instead was ambushed and Lovewell
himself and eight of his soldiers were killed.
Lovewell's Fight was famous throughout the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and much was
written about it. Green's
Indian Wars5
gives a comprehensive history of the Fight;
Longfellow and others commemorated the Fight in
verse
see:
http://imaginemaine.com/Features/Archives/Lovewell.html
http://away.com/primedia/transport/maine_loop_1.html
http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/Literature/NativeAmericans&Blacks/
HannahDuston/MMD2141.html
For more
information see
Loon Program
Fryeburg Aquifer Resource Committee
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