Wawasee Property Owners Assn., Syracuse

Wawasee Property Owners Association – Neighbors dedicated to the preservation and orderly development of Indiana's largest natural lake

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SIC (US 1987) : Earlier this year there were many news articles concerning the ownership of the lake control structure in Syracuse. Prior to the town owning it, there was the Syracuse Water Power Company.
In the 1880s farmers owning swamp land around the lake attempted to get control of the dam in order to destroy it and increase the area of their tillable land. This project was eventually defeated by the Indiana Supreme Court.
Syracuse Water Power Company was organized in the mid to late 1890s. The objective was to maintain a fairly normal high level in Lake Wawasee so it would be a success as a summer resort. A dam was maintained and owned by the company.
George William Miles was a key person in organizing the water power company and J. P. Dolan helped him. News reports indicated the company was actually used very little for generating water power. Power was supplied to a local novelty company.
After the water plant was installed in Syracuse, which apparently occurred sometime after 1901 when the company was given a franchise to construct a waterworks, there was auxiliary use of the power for running pumps.
Ron Sharp, in his book