The Lenape were pushed out of the area by the Seneca tribe a member of the larger Iroquois Confederacy.

The Seneca were defeated by General Anthony Wayne's forces during the Northwest Indian War and left the area under the terms of the Treaty of Greenville.

Farm animals that wandered off were often lost in the quicksands of the swamp or fell prey to predators like foxes, bears and mountain lions.

This time approving a $400,000 budget (equivalent to $6.27 million in 2023)[6] under the condition that the needed land in Ohio be purchased by the private sector.

The lake features multiple beaches and camping areas in both Pennsylvania and Ohio.

The northeastern part of Pymatuning Lake, east of the spillway and three miles (5 km) south of Linesville, is a protected gameland where colonies of 20,000 Canada geese and many more ducks winter each year.

The lake is the result of an earth dam three miles (5 km) north of Jamestown, Pennsylvania, whose outflow forms the Shenango River.

A north-south spillway crosses the northern part of the lake, with the gameland on the east side.

[2] The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources had planned to prohibit bread as food for the carp and ducks on January 1, 2009, only permitting commercial fish food as part of an effort to clean up the area and increase its wild nature, but subsequently reconsidered.

These marinas have mooring facilities and rent pontoon boats, rowboats, motorboats, canoes, and motors.

The most common species are largemouth and smallmouth bass, walleye, bluegill, crappie, perch, carp, and muskellunge.

Licenses from Ohio and Pennsylvania are permitted if the fishermen are fishing from a boat in any section of the lake.

The land surrounding the lake is ideal habitat for white tailed deer and other woodland animals.

The common game species are squirrels, waterfowl, white-tailed deer, and rabbits.

[2] Pymatuning State Park is open for overnight guests beginning in mid-April and ending in late-October.

Jamestown campgrounds is within walking distances of small stores that sell a variety of camping supplies and groceries.