In 1869 the Stamford Water Company purchased land for the construction of a dam and the creation of a reservoir for the use of the city of Stamford. Three ponds were joined to create Trinity Lake which reached a capacity of 450 million gallons when the dam height was increased in 1895. In 1891 the Stamford Water Company purchased additional land and created Siscowit Reservoir with a capacity of 88 million gallons.Public utilities Commission. Tenth Annual Report of the Public Utilities Commission. Hartford. Published by the State of Connecticut (1922). p. 771 Annual farmers’ picnics were held on the eastern shore of Trinity Lake for about twenty years from 1886 onwards. Up to 2000 people from the region would attend.
