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Tax Payers Pond and How It Got Its Name
by Larry Stern
(Told to me by lifetime resident Walt Metzger age 97.)
Tax Payers pond was originally a section of Beaver Brook.
The Thompson & Conklin Lumber Company had built a gristmill around 1854 by the side of the road.
In the 1930's Superintendent Toaspern had built a Log cabin nearby. He got the county to help make a dam for Beaver Brook.
When Beaver Brook was dammed, it formed a pond. Since the county used their men to build the dam, it was at the expense of the tax payers, and that's how the pond got its name.
(Note from Ecki: I've noticed that on most major maps that the pond is named Toaspern's Pond as opposed to Tax Payers Pond, although I know that everyone around here calls it Tax Payers Pond.)
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