The Native Americans of the area called it "Klampeechen Chuppecat" which, in Lenape, translates to deep, dark swamp.

[2] With the dwindling forests and growing markets, the businesses who had harvested all of the lumber began looking for new avenues of revenue, and turned to the ice industry.

Pennsylvania consumed about 1 million tons annually, cut on the state's lakes and rivers.

Eventually, the ice companies folded, while still controlling large tracts of land.

In 1949, Samuel Rubel and the Pocono Mountain Ice Company donated a majority of the land around Stillwater Lake to the Boy Scouts of America's Bethlehem Area Council (now Minsi Trails Council).

[2] The remaining land was sold to developers and was marketed in the 1960s as Stillwater Lake Estates, a development of approximately 1,000 lots (typically about two-thirds of an acre each), with amenities presently including a beach, community center, playground, nature preserve, tennis courts and marina.

The council finalized engineering plans and completed the dam permit application in November 2009.

The Scouts petitioned the legislators to release the $3,000,000.00 of approved funding in order to repair the dam and save their camp and the watershed and neighboring communities.