Collection Scope and Contents The Lake Massasoit Records collection contains documents and materials on the history, development and state of Lake Massasoit or the Watershops Pond. Materials range from correspondence, reports, memos, videos, audio, newspaper articles, and photographic prints. Among the important documents on the history of Lake Massasoit are a newspaper article titled “History of Watershops Pond” appearing in the January 1983 Family Journal, an article from the January 11,1914 Springfield Republican.,...