Lost Lake

Exhibited September 2025

So much can happen in a century. Take East Groton. It enjoyed a development boom during the postwar prosperity of the 1920s, when a new wealthy working class responded to alluring ads in the Boston Globe describing a fashionable shoreline community…

Not quite the truth, but city people bought lots on shore money, put up prefab cottages, and enjoyed summers of rustic simplicity until, as longtime Lost Lake resident Bob Collins put it, along came the Depression, and “the whole thing unraveled.”

Today, Groton’s lakes region may well enjoy the most tightly woven community in town. Many residents share a century’s-long family connection to the place; others bring a fresh perspective to its unspoiled waterways, public beaches, and diverse bird and wildlife habitats.