Skaneateles Lake

Skaneateles Lake stretches south through a narrow valley of wooded hills, one of the eastern Finger Lakes. Its name comes from an Onondaga word meaning “long lake.” The surrounding country was associated with the Onondaga, one of the nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Their villages and fields formed part of a broader homeland extending from this lake toward Onondaga Lake and the river valleys to the east.