12.04: Ni-Bump-ght

At the western end of Breakstone Lake was a massive dam; it had been finished in 1905 when the valley had been flooded by New York’s Board of Water Supply. The land had been leased from the Xavier family for an exorbitant fee on a hundred year lease, ownership had now reverted to the estate but the water remained the property of the board. The original family home was now under several hundred feet of water, and a new one had been built on the resulting island. This gothic eyesore had been demolished in the fifties and the current one built.
The family line, ownership and residents of the house were well documented. There were no historic tragic deaths, some males had died in wars, the only one that stood out was Charles Xavier, the school founder who had died whilst out sailing on the lake. He hadn’t drowned but his small skiff had been found drifting with him dead at the tiller. An autopsy had found no apparent cause of death.