History

Lake Secor, located 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Mahopac CDP, received its  name from the Secor family who were the first European people to  officially call the land their own.

In the early 20th century Secor turned into a "bungalow city" where the urbanites spent their summer weekends. At first the area was largely Germans, later in the mid-1950s it peaked opening up to all family types. In the 1940s and '50s a summer camp for Jewish children (Secor Lake Camp) operated on the other side of the lake from the bungalows. In the 1970s Secor was divided half and half between the people that resided there and the city folk who came up on weekends.  

 Today it has over 500 families living on the 26 roads that enclose it.