Mosquito Lake took its name from the insects that inhabited the marshy area, and local lore tells of two brothers from Cleveland traveling to boil mineral water for salt who camped there, were overwhelmed by a huge swarm of insects, hid under their large boiling kettle, and were later found dead beneath it by passing travelers. Trumbull County’s abundant natural resources made the Mosquito Creek area an ideal place for American Indian communities, including the Erie, or Erielhonan, whose presence was later reflected in stone implements found there by collectors in the early 20th century. As far back as 1662, Connecticut had been granted land from England westward to the sea, including what became northeast Ohio, and after the Revolutionary War it surrendered its claim to the sea but retained the land 120 miles west of the Pennsylvania border that became known as the Connecticut Western Reserve. That land was parceled into 5 x 5 square miles and sold to investors in the Connecticut Land Company, and the area now known as Bazetta Township was purchased by early settler David Huntington. On the west side of Mosquito Creek, Joseph Marvin built a house before 1860 on Warren-Meadville Road. The Flood Control Act of 1938 led to construction of a dam at Mosquito Creek to supply water to nearby steel mills and to control flooding for local manufacturing centers in Trumbull County, which was once a titan of the steel industry and at one time had the largest blast furnace in the world; the county’s first steel mill, Trumbull Cliffs, was completed in 1913. From the 1940s to the present, Mosquito Lake has served tourists and residents alike as a gathering place for recreation and entertainment, including fishing, ice fishing, 4H competitions, swimming, and enjoying its natural surroundings.