Until the 1930's, Crystal Lake was a small body of water at the western end of Station Avenue in Haddon Heights, framed by North and South Park Avenues and serving as the terminus and namesake of Lake Street. It was created by the damming of King's Run, the waterway that became the southern branch of Newton Creek, and it marked the dividing line between Haddon and Center Townships until the Borough of Haddon Heights was created from them in 1904. European settlement in this area began in 1682, when six Quaker families divided what was then Newton Township. Four early farmhouses remain in Haddon Heights: the Hinchman-Hurley-Lippincott House at 1089 North Park Drive, built c. 1699; the Colonel Joseph Ellis House at 1212 Sylvan Drive, built before 1750; and the Isaac Glover House at 1908 New Jersey Avenue, built c. 1750. Crystal Lake was a popular place for swimming and ice skating, especially among youngsters, and many older residents remembered summer skinny-dipping, winter skating, and warming themselves by bonfires along its banks. A tiny island in the center held four swamp willow trees that shaded summer picnics, and grassy banks and groves of mature native trees surrounded the lake. In the 18th and 19th centuries, King's Run also supplied water to the Glover Fulling Mill pond downstream between the bridge at Glover Avenue and the Haddon Heights Dell. Crystal Lake also appeared in a photograph of the first car in Haddon Heights, a 1904 U.S. Long Distance Runabout owned by Mr. Luke Moore. In the 1930's, the Works Progress Administration drained the lake and removed many of the trees, and much of the new dry land became part of the Camden County Park system, while the lake's rough outline can still be seen in the bowl-like terrain behind the War Memorial at the foot of the park.