For decades Loch Haven Lake has existed in a peaceful, forested setting. The history of the man-made lake began in 1930 when Mr. Davidson built a concrete dam. The dam is 25 feet tall, 77 feet long, 4 feet thick at the top and 9 feet thick at the bottom. This dam produced a lake fed by three small creeks and three underwater springs. Mr. Davidson also built several picnic shelters and a sandy beach along the lake shore. In 1946, Mr. Noel Preece, an Englishman who had also been a sheep herder in Australia, purchased the property and began building stone walls, cabins and the party house. After Mr. Preece’s death in 1961, Mrs. Preece continued to run Loch Haven Country Club. She catered weddings, parties and rented cabins and club facilities. In 1993, Mrs. Preece died and her son Skye Preece took over ownership and management of Loch Haven Club. In 2001, Skye Preece sold Loch Haven Lake to the Bane family, Gene and Becky Bane and their three children Katye Bane Oliver, Ember Bane, and Rylie Bane Elliott. The Bane family maintains the legacy of the past 60+ years in continuing to provide Roanoke’s only year-round outdoor recreation membership club as well as party house and picnic shelter rentals available to the outside community for events and weddings.   The property is 73.9 acres which includes the six-acre lake. The lake has been stocked with large-mouth bass and bluegill. The property consists of five long-term rental residences, a party house, 3 picnic shelters, a tennis court, volleyball court, horseshoe pits, ping-pong, canoes and kayaks, hiking trails, a stone fire-pit and a white sand beach.