Dove Lake (Montgomery County, Pennsylvania)

Dove Lake
Location of Dove Lake in Pennsylvania, USA.
Location of Dove Lake in Pennsylvania, USA.
Dove Lake
Location within Pennsylvania
Location of Dove Lake in Pennsylvania, USA.
Location of Dove Lake in Pennsylvania, USA.
Dove Lake
Location within the United States
LocationLower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States
Coordinates40°1′50.7″N 75°17′29.2″W / 40.030750°N 75.291444°W / 40.030750; -75.291444
Typereservoir
Mill Creek
Mill Creek
Basin countriesUnited States
Surface elevation
233 ft (71 m)[1]

Dove Lake is a reservoir in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.[1] It was created by damming Mill Creek.

Dove Lake was the setting of the 1885 painting The Swimming Hole by Thomas Eakins.

Dove Lake Dam.
The Swimming Hole by Thomas Eakins, 1884–85, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.

Dove Lake is on a privately owned property in Bryn Mawr and Gladwyne.

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