In ancient times

[KBoater]

In ancient times there lived a young sea serpent named Ms Winnie. She was a little known serpent who was a first cousin to Loch Ness. Young Winnie frolicked in the Western Atlantic. Her favorite pastime was finding out of the way to passages into little know regions. She would swim up rivers and streams to explore various lakes and playgrounds. One day she entered a Great Bay and continued to swim up stream through McDude River until she found a large body of water with many islands and deep holes.
As she was playing in the Board part of the lake diving to deep holes, she met a Great Spirit named Pesaukee who was with his friend WD.
Pesaukee ruled the air, land and water. He had a home high in the mountains on the western shore of the water. They fell in love and wanted to be together all the time but Pesaukee lived on the land and Winnie lived in the water. Since Peasukee controlled the land, air and water, he caused a great upheaval of the land so that he could live with Winnie. The upheaval caused the McDude River to change course and not connect with the lake. Therefore Winnie could not return to the Atlantic by the way she came. The lake water to flow north of Peasukee’s mountain and Winnie did not know where the water went.
Pesaukee talked Winnie into staying with him. As a wedding present to Winnie he created a large island from part of his mountain. It was surrounded by water.
So that Winnie could live on the island, she had to become a land serpent. She chose to become a Rattlesnake. Pesaukee gave the island to Winnie as a present with the understanding that all the women that lived on the island would be kind, good and love their island.
That is how we have Rattlesnake Gal and Island Girl.

The lake became known as Winnipesaukee.