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History · Lake Mohegan

14% of Lake Mohegan’s homes were built before 1940

1 place in town is on the National Register.

1on the National Register
14%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Lake Mohegan’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Lake Mohegan are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lake Mohegan’s history is told.

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The story so far

Lake Mohegan, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Lake Mohegan yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Lake Mohegan, commonly known as Mohegan Lake, is a census-designated place (CDP) located in the Town of Yorktown in Westchester County, New York, United States. There is a private lake, Mohegan Lake, also known as "Lake Mohegan", with beaches which are occasionally closed for swimming due to harmful algal blooms. The town was home to several former summer bungalow colonies in the 1950s and 1960s. They included the Skyview Colony and Lakeview Colony off U.S. Route 6.

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 6,010 in 2010, 5,896 in 2020.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

Lake Mohegan, decade by decade

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Lake Mohegan

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

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National Historic Landmarks
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historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Lake Mohegan

Nobody well known was born in Lake Mohegan itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Mel GibsonAmerican actor, director, producer and screenwr… · b. 1956
Gore VidalAmerican writer · b. 1925
Stanley TucciAmerican actor and author · b. 1960
Paul ReubensAmerican actor and comedian · b. 1952
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Tom WellingAmerican actor, director, and model · b. 1977
Charles DurningAmerican actor · b. 1923
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Shrub OakIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townYorktown2 historic placesBCortlandt14 historic placesA−CrompondIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (6). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.