Here are some of the early developments that made Ames Lake what it is today:
Logging (1927)
First settler in the area, Yu H. Wood (1939)
Ames Lake platted (1941), registered (1942)
First settler on the lake, Mrs. Clarence Scott (August 1944)
Fish stocked in the lake (1951)
Electricity (1954)
Telephone (1956)
Water (1965)
Ames Lake becomes a private lake (1966)
