STORIES: THE TOCKS ISLAND DAM CONTROVERSY

In the Beginning... CRM Magazine: Saved from the Dam (Vol. 25 No.3 2002) A look back at the Tocks Island Dam controversy by park historic architect Thomas E. Solon. KEYWORDS: record and remove, compliance, deauthorization, de-authorization. RELATED PAGES IN THIS WEBSITE: The Tocks Island Dam Controversy, Van Campen Inn today, Restoration of Van Campen Inn. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, HABS: Historic American Buildings Survey and other Heritage Documentation Programs, examples of Georgian buildings. (No. Arizona Univ.) 

In-Tocks-icated -- The Tocks Island Dam Project CRM Magazine: Saved from the Dam (Vol. 25 No.3 2002) By Delaware River author Richard C. Albert. KEYWORDS: Tocks Island National Recreation Area, dry storage, Delaware Estuary, non-tidal Delaware River, anti-dam treaty (1783), lumber rafts, hydropower generation, Kittatinny Mountain, Walpack Bend dam, flood control, earthen dam, Delaware Valley Conservation Association (DVCA), Save the Delaware Coalition, eutrophic, benefit-cost ratio, environmental legislation, geological site problems. RELATED PAGES IN THIS WEBSITE: Flood of 1955, Major Floods in this park, Nancy Shukaitis in her own words (DVCA), Tocks Island Dam Controversy. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES: Delaware River Basin Commission, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Yards Creek (Pumped Storage) Generating Station, National Wild and Scenic River System.

STORIES: OLD MINE ROAD

Searching for the Old Mine Road CRM Magazine: Saved from the Dam (Vol. 25 No.3 2002) By Alicia Batko, historian of Montague Association for the Restoration of Community History (M.A.R.C.H.) KEYWORDS: Samuel Preston, Samuel Hazard, Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania, Amelia S Decker, the Trade Path, Road to Esopus, Kings Road, the Queen's Highway, Novi Belgi (New Netherlands), Dutch West India Company, Peter Minuet, Shawnee PA. RELATED PAGES IN THIS WEBSITE: Montague Association for the Restoration of Community History (M.A.R.C.H.), Old Mine Road, "Drive-thru" History: A Self-Guided Auto Tour, Military Trail, Archeology in the Minisink.

"Drive-thru" History: A Self-Guided Auto Tour CRM Magazine: Saved from the Dam (Vol. 25 No.3 2002) By park historian Sue Kopczynski. KEYWORDS: windshield tours, heritage tourism, Garret Broadhead and Broadhead Heller Farm (inset). RELATED PAGES IN THIS WEBSITE: Old Mine Road, Searching for the Old Mine Road.