What Lurks Beneath by Marilyn Black photos by Darl Black On display at the museum is a miniature model of a woolly mammoth. Ten thousand years ago, woolly mammoths plodded through the spongy marshes we know today as Conneaut Lake, Crawford County. Two hundred years ago, a prime specimen of the now extinct woodland elk drowned in Conneaut Lake. On August 26, 1922, the sleek "Liberty II" wooden race boat capsized and sank into the dark depths of Conneaut Lake. How do we know these statements are facts rather than speculation? Parts of all three have been discovered, and these archaeological treasures are included in the displays at the Conneaut Lake Area Historical Society's Museum. Conneaut Lake Looking back During the melting of the Wisconsin ice sheet (Pleistocene Epoch) in about 8,000 B.C., a rebuilding and readvance of ice occurred, according to geologist V. C. Shepps' writing in 1962. A tongue of ice came down north of present day Conneaut Lake and spread out into the area surrounding PFBC website: www.fishandboat.com Pennsylvania Angler & Boater * January/February 2014 29http://www.fishandboat.com