Welcome to Maple Lake Club!
Maple Lake Club is a private facility for members and their guests located near Bridgeport, West Virginia.
In mid-1920, faced with a shortage of boating, swimming, and fishing facilities, the people in this area of West Virginia were forced to find places for these recreations in the surrounding valleys. One such development was beautiful Maple Lake, on Route No. 50, two and one-half miles East of Bridgeport, West Virginia, a lovely vista of water with rolling woodland, dotted with neat and attractive summer cottages.
The project was promoted by Mr. C. Duffy Floyd, of the Realty Development Company, with Mr. J. W. Bartlett, who built a home on the Lake and remained a resident until his death in 1965. Their vision comprehended the possibility of a lake in what was little more than a cow pasture fifty years ago.
Eight months were required to complete the dam in the spring of 1929, impounding an artificial lake. Mr. Floyd himself built the first cottage, a log cabin. Although Maple Lake was first intended as a summer resort, it has changed its character considerably throughout the years, and today many families make their permanent residences on the Lake.
The Maple Lake Club, a corporation, was created by virtue of a charter issued by the Secretary of State, of the state of West Virginia, on the 6th of June 1929.