Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Mahopac, NY

Mahopac is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Carmel in Putnam County, New York, also known by the name of its lake, Lake Mahopac.

The name 'Mahopac' is believed to come from an Indigenous word meaning 'Great Lake' or 'Lake of the Great Serpent.'

Mahopac's land was once Wappinger country and formed part of the Philipse Patent, the huge tract patented to Adolphus Philipse in 1697 that encompassed all of today's Putnam County.

During the American Revolution, soldiers were stationed at Mahopac Falls to guard the Red Mills, an important center for grinding grain and storing flour for American troops.

By the middle of the 19th century Mahopac had become a summer resort community, and hotels would hold competing races of decorated horse-drawn coaches to carry vacationers from the train station to Lake Mahopac.

Mahopac remained primarily a summer resort until after World War II; after the New York Central's Putnam Division ran its last passenger service to Mahopac in 1959, the hamlet evolved into a year-round commuter community.

The hamlet encircles 587-acre Lake Mahopac, which contains three islands - Fairy, Petre and Canopus - all of them privately owned.

Petre Island on Lake Mahopac holds the Massaro House, a dramatic Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired residence, along with a bungalow Wright himself designed, the A. K. Chahroudi Cottage.

The world-record brown bullhead, weighing 7 pounds 6 ounces, was caught in Lake Mahopac on August 1, 2009, by angler Glenn Collacuro.

Mahopac had 8,932 residents at the 2020 census, living in 3,353 households.