• A waterfall in the park

    Delaware Water Gap

    National Recreation Area NJ,PA

  • Closures

    A section of US Rt. 209 and several other areas remain closed until repairs are complete. More »

Features: Customs & Lifeways

Most of these features were first published in the park's newsletter, Spanning the Gap (STG) or in the Cultural Resource Management magazine, CRM. STG and CRM features are pdf files.

For related pages in this website, and for links to other websites for each feature,
look up the feature under:

• NEWS: Park Newspaper-Features from Back Issues, by year (STG features) or under:
• NEWS: Park Newspaper-CRM Magazine, by topic (CRM features) 

Native American People | Colonial and historic peoples (under Collections)

 

Colonial and Early American Lifeways

Cultural Connections (STG: Summer 1998 Vol. 18 No. 2) Archeological evidence of human settlement within the park's boundaries in prehistoric and colonial times. By park archeologist John R. Wright.

Maple Sugaring at Millbrook Village
Background of the late winter event.
Additional material
Map and Guide to Millbrook Village 

Military Trail 
Guide to numbered signposts on this historic one-mile trail
Additional material
Who is buried in the slave cemetery?

 

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Did You Know?

Architect's aerial view of an earthen dam stretching across a wide river

... that the reservoir of the proposed Tocks Island Dam would have inundated 30 miles of the Delaware River and 30,000 acres of its river valley (now part of Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.) The defeat of the dam was an early victory of the environmental movement in this country. More...