Greenwood Lake
— a long water held between two states.
Not only on a wall.
Greenwood Lake, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“Greenwood Lake runs about nine miles north to south, with its southern third in West Milford and the long northern reach across the line into Warwick. The original water was a smaller pond called Long Pond, raised by a dam in the 1760s to feed the Long Pond Ironworks. Hemlock and oak come down to the shore. Outboards run slow along the line in summer; the lake freezes hard most winters.
The place, in three passes.
Greenwood Lake sits in the New York–New Jersey Highlands, straddling the state line at roughly six hundred and twenty feet of elevation. The southern third lies in West Milford, in Passaic County, New Jersey; the longer northern reach lies in the town of Warwick, in Orange County, New York. The water runs about nine miles north to south and about a mile across at its widest. Its outflow feeds Belcher Creek and then the Wanaque Reservoir, part of the headwaters of the Passaic River system.
The lake began as a smaller natural pond called Long Pond. In the 1760s, ironmaster Peter Hasenclever raised a stone dam at the southern end to power the Long Pond Ironworks downstream, drowning the surrounding meadow and lifting the water to roughly its present shoreline. The lake is fed by Belcher Brook and several smaller tributaries off Bearfort and Sterling ridges, and the bottom holds the foundations and stumps of the colonial-era pond beneath the new surface.
Summer is the season the lake is most known for. The shoreline communities of Hewitt, Awosting, and the New York hamlet of Greenwood Lake fill with seasonal cottages, and bass and pickerel fishing pull steady weekend traffic on the water. Hardwoods on Bearfort Ridge to the east turn through the second week of October. The lake freezes most winters, with a long tradition of ice fishing and an annual ice racing meet on the New York end when the cover holds thick enough.
