The lake itself is a flooded
quarry that dates back to 1877. It is located off
Greenspring Avenue, between
Old Court Road and
Smith Avenue. The quarry was likely originally run by the Boyle family, and later transferred to the McMahon family. The McMahon Quarry was purchased by the Arundel Corporation in 1937, and became known as the Greenspring Quarry. though other minerals were also found at the site. The Arundel Corporation of Baltimore survives as a subsidiary of
Vulcan Materials Company. In 1999, an agreement was reached to allow a new mixed-use development to be constructed on the property. Construction began in 2005, and the first businesses opened starting in 2006, which now include medical office space of
LifeBridge Health,
Walgreens, and
The Fresh Market. The development also features 83 single-family homes and 500 condos. The center of the development features is lake, which is deep, one of the deepest lakes in the state of Maryland. File:Quarry Lake 1956 1VKW000020006.jpg|The quarry in 1956 File:Quarry Lake 1998 N10NAPPW10587118.jpg|The quarry in 1998, a few years before flooding File:Quarry Lake Maryland July 2022.jpg|Oblique view in July 2022 == References ==