raised by a dam built in 1834. Indian Hill Indian Hill is located on the north shore of Syracuse Lake, 1.5 miles to the east of the town of Syracuse. It was a cemetery for the Indians of the area, who interred their dead in trees. Eventually the wrapping around the dead would disintegrate, causing the skeletal remains to fall to the ground. Accounts of sturgeon In 1912, Bing Raymond caught a sturgeon in Lake Syracuse off the lake's extreme northwest side, near a place called China. Another sturgeon was seen about the same year by four men. The third account occurred in the 1920s, when Charlotte White discovered a disabled sturgeon measuring , 3 inches and weighing 130 lb, suffocated by a pair of waterwings caught in its gills. Current population Syracuse, like its neighbor, Lake Wawasee, is lined with many homes used seasonally and by those who live there year-round. Resources 1995 Wawasee Area Watershed Lake Enhancement Diagnostic/Feasibility Study Lilly, Eli. Early Wawasee Days. Indianapolis: Studio Press Inc., 1960. Lakes of Indiana Lakes of Kosciusko County, Indiana