Neversink, New York
Before it was seized through eminent domain, Neversink was a popular Catskills resort town. Poultry and dairy farms also dotted the area, many of which were run by Jewish farmers. The town was rebuilt nearby after Neversink Dam--which displaced 342 residents between Neversink and the nearby hamlet of Bittersweet--submerged the original site.
About this community
- River
- Neversink River
- Established
- 1798
- Inundated
- 1953
- Population
- 342
Archive artifacts
Photos
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Former site of the village of Neversink 2000A sign, installed in the early 2000s, marks the site closest to where the village of Neversink, now submerged beneath the Neversink Reservoir, once sat.Anna Lehr Mueser
Sources
- Diane Galusha, Liquid Assets: A History of New York City’s Water System Expanded Edition (2016).
- Time and The Valleys Museum, “Short History of The Town of Neversink.”: https://www.timeandthevalleysmuseum.org/short-history-of-the-town-of-neversink/
- James Eldridge Quinlan and Thomas Antisell, History of Sullivan County: Embracing an Account of Its Geology, Climate, Aborigines, Early Settlement, Organization ... with Biographical Sketches (1873). https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007074294.
- Barbara Wakefield Purcell, Time and the Valley: Story of the Rondout and Neversink Valleys (1978).