It is almost difficult to believe that maps of Northville’s parent Town of Northampton drawn before and after 1930 depict the same place. The two below, created about a century apart, show just how much of the town was swallowed up by the creation of what was first called the Sacandaga Reservoir and today called the Great Sacandaga Lake - over a third of its total land mass. The flood turned what had been a town defined and indeed divided down the middle by a long lazy river into one dominated by a massive lake. While entire neighborhoods including Fish House, Osborne Bridge, Parkville and parts of Cranberry Creek were submerged, the town center of Northville survived the drowning, but emerged as a peninsula.