Editing Mohegan Lake, New York (section)

==Etymology==
Mohegan Lake was named "Lake Mohegan" in 1859 by William Jones, who owned the Mount Pleasant Hotel on the eastern side of the lake.<ref>{{Cite web |title=An Illustrated History of Mohegan - Part 2 |url=http://yorktownhistory.org/wp-content/archives/homepages/march00.htm |access-date=2022-11-22 |website=yorktownhistory.org}}</ref>

The [[Mohegan]] were a tribe of [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] once associated with the [[Pequot]] of easternmost Connecticut, who were pushed successively west to the area of the [[Housatonic River]] during the 17th and into the 18th century. There is no indication of them ever inhabiting northern [[Westchester County, New York|Westchester County]] in the vicinity of [[Peekskill, New York|Peekskill]], or any other nearby area.

The change in syntax, reversing the modern community's name to "Mohegan Lake", dates back to the early 1970s, before which residents commonly referred to it as "Lake Mohegan", the name still used by the [[United States Census Bureau]] for the CDP.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|title=U.S. Census website|publisher=United States Census Bureau|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=1 April 2018}}</ref> The population in the 2010 Census was 6,010.