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Originally Posted by TomC

Like your "what about bob" example, parts of "on golden pond" which was set on squam lake were filmed on winnipesaukee.

Thanks Tom but I already included that one.

It looks like I'm not getting much help with this. Here are all the Fun Facts that are now appearing:

In 1982 the 205' M/V Mount Washington Cruise Ship was cut in half and a 25' section was added converting her into the 230' M/S Mount Washington that cruises the big lake today.

There are 273 lakes and ponds in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire. The largest is Lake Winnipesaukee.

The original steam ship Mount Washington was destroyed by fire at Weirs Beach in 1939. The fire also consumed the Weirs Cafe, Railroad Station, and at least one seaplane.

In 1913 Industrialist Thomas Plant began construction on "Castle in the Clouds", a magnificent mansion 750' above Lake Winnipesaukee. He chose the lake after searching North America and Europe for the perfect location.

The 1981 film "On Golden Pond" was set and filmed mostly on Squam Lake but several scenes were also filmed on Lake Winnipesaukee.

Wolfeboro is known as the "Oldest Summer Resort in America" because Governor John Wentworth was the first to built a summer home there in 1771.

Lake Winnipesaukee was first "discovered" in 1652 by an expedition from the Massachusetts Bay Colony while searching for the headwaters of the Merrimack River. Native Americans had already been living there for 10,000 years.

There are three islands named "Loon" on Lake Winnipesaukee. One in Moultonboro, one in Tuftonboro, and one in Meredith.

Mile Island, Three Mile Island, Five Mile Island and Six Mile Island describe their distances from Center Harbor.

President Theodore Roosevelt drew a crowd of 20,000-40,000 when he visited the Weirs on August 28, 1902 to deliver a speech at the NH Veterans Association.

The deepest point in Lake Winnipesaukee is 213' about 1 mile southeast of Welch Island in the Broads.

In the Three Stooges 1940 short "No Census, No Feeling" Curly answers a query about his birthplace with "Lake Winnipesaukee." When Moe asks him to spell it, he switches course, and says "Make that Lake Erie".

In 1982, composer Alan Hovhaness, who spent much of his childhood in New Hampshire, composed Lake Winnipesaukee, Op. 363, a sextet for flute, oboe, cello, two percussion, and piano.

The 2006 comedy "Click" has a flashback depicting Adam Sandler as a kid playing on a beach on Lake Winnipesaukee.

A 2008 episode of Law & Order features a defendant remembering trips to a cottage at Lake Winnipesaukee.

Thornton Wilder's 1938 Pulitzer Prize winning play, Our Town, refers to Lake Winnipesaukee at the beginning of Act III.

Lake Winnipesaukee witnessed the first intercollegiate sporting event in the United States, as Harvard defeated Yale by two lengths in the first Harvard-Yale Regatta on August 3, 1852 at Center Harbor.

Although 365 and 274 are traditionally listed as the number of islands on Lake Winnipesaukee, current counts show the number close to 253.

"Winnipesaukee" has been said to mean either "Beautiful Water of the High Place" or "Smile of the Great Spirit".