LAKE LETCHER
An artificial lake contained within the confines of a natural lake bed north of Letcher. The lake was made possible by the combined efforts of the town, which financed the digging of an artesian well; the Letcher Gun and Fish Club which paid for the spillways; the W. P. A. which furnished the workmen for the construction. Originally called Lake Bed by the early settlers, for in the eighties the bed was little more than a mud hole.
Old timers who apply the name Thun Lake to the lake bed are mislep by a statement by Carl Tannenill and Fred DeWolf, who in their boyhood told the younger children that Lake Bed was called Thun on the map. Inreality no such name ever existed on the map. Near the lake is the Letcher Swimming Pool. The overflow from the lake has formed the Letcher Slough. (Picture Not Available)