Ames Lake has a unique and colorful history. This website shares the stories of how our community grew up and thrived.
Major Events
- Logging (1927)
- First settler in the area, Yu H. Wood (1939)
- Ames Lake platted (1941), registered (1942)
- First settler on the lake, Mrs. Clarence Scott (August 1944)
- Fish stocked in the lake (1951)
- Electricity (1954)
- Telephone (1956)
- Ames Lake becomes a private lake (1966)
- Water (1970)
