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Delaware Water Gap National Recreation AreaA hobby horse awaits a rider in a village workshop.
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Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
Park Bulletins on History & Culture
Millbrook Village store register

Millbrook Village Map and Guide
Page 1: History of the village
Page 2: Map and guide to the village

 
A tap into a maple tree with a bucket gathering sap
Maple Sugaring at Millbrook Village
Background of the late winter event. (1 page)
 
Excavation of a pottery cooking jar
Native Americans in the Delaware Valley
Paleo-Indian, Archaic , Woodland and Historic Period summaries.
 
18th century powderhorn

Military Trail, Walpack NJ
Stop-by-stop commentary on this one-mile signposted trail through
250 years of Walpack's history. (4 pages)
Additional material
Who is buried in the slave cemetery?

 
Square steeple atop a white wood church
The Village of Dingmans Ferry PA
A brief history of the village once called Dingmans Choice. (1 page)
 
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Bridges at Dingmans Ferry PA
A brief history of the river crossings at Dingmans Ferry PA, now the site of
one of the few privately-owned bidges in the country. (1 page)

 
Large iron pipe with date 1908
Mills on Dingmans Creek
Industrial use of the creek in past centuries. (1 page)
Architect's aerial view of an earthen dam stretching across a wide river  

Did You Know?
... 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.
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