There are many of us here,on-line, who have memory of the area that,1970-75 became federal Lake Harsha in East Fork State park. S E Batavia twnsp, sw Williamsburg twnsp, nw Tate twnsp [Bethel], and a tiny bit of Monroe twnsp went into the lake-park. This area was mostly settled by people from Atlantic Co,NJ and s e Princeton,NJ, though there were exceptions from Washington Co,sw Pa,Fayette Co,Ky etc. . Mostly Methodist. . But,by 1970, many of the farms were no longer owned by original families. No villages, but "neighborhoods" disappeared. If you look at a modern map, you see the lake shaped roughly like an hour-glass. The hamlet of Elk Lick was under the western bulge. Twin Bridges under the eastern bulge. Anti-Bantam at the park's edge south of Twin Bridges. Bantam south of Elk Lick. Concord east of Twin Bridges. Afton north of Elk Lick. Green Brier at the north end of the dam. Mt Holly not far south east.of the dam . Neighborhoods. Elk Lick once had Rev John Collins and his bro-in-law,James Blackman's grist and saw mills. In the narrow place between bulges was Isaac Higbee's and Cornelius McCollum's mill. At Macedonia,on the s e corner of the lake were once 3 mills owned by John Denham,Walter Burke,Timothy Sprague,-Deel, et al, and on the n e edge of the park was tunnel mills. Methodist churchs of Old Bethel,Green Brier,and Concord,were in,or at the park's edge[cemetaries,at least,survive. I think a 4th was in the park's campground. Salt was made at at least 2 licks-by the Jerseymen at Elk Lick,and by Waits,n of Concord church.At least Bantam and Concod had post offices. Bridges would be torn down at Elk Lick, Twin Bridges[2], Macedonia, Goggle Eye, and Tunnel Mills 1973-74. The latter 3 would not have been under water at normal lake depth. Many very early buildings were torn down,in both the lake,and the park area, 1970-75. Pictures were published in local papers of many of them,and 'Elk Lick"house was moved,board by board, to Sharon Woods Parks village,ne Cincinnati. Hermit John Allen had gold mines in a couple locations. I read about 1972,of a Batavia boy finding thoUsands of Indian artifacts in the Elk Lick bottoms...He must have foiund the lick. >From the 1870 and 1891 atlases,I can tell who owned which farm then. From the 1826 tax lists,I can locate maybe 1\2 the owners then. And,I know,roughly, the original 1798-1803-1806 owners. And several of us on-line can remember many of the 1950-70 owners of lands in the lake-park area. Still know some of them. By that time,some of the farms along the creek were owned by Cincinnati people for vacation homes. I started out to write an article about the people,but must tackle that later. I should mention that on the north side of the lake,a new highway,and older RR led to the building of a huge FORD transmission plant-now with new owners. .