Montela, New York
Montela was one of three communities inundated by Merriman Dam, which displaced approximately 1200 residents in total. Although the town's post office closed in 1946, the town was not submerged until 1953.
About this community
- Dam
- Merriman Dam
- River
- Rondout Creek
- Established
- 1886
- Inundated
- 1946
- Population
- 400
Sources
- Diane Galusha, Liquid Assets: A History of New York City’s Water System, Expanded Edition (2016).
- James Eldridge Quinlan and Thomas Antisell, History of Sullivan County: Embracing an Account of Its Geology, Climate, Aborigines, Early Settlement, Organization ... with Biographical Sketches ... G. M. Beebe & W. T. Morgans (1873).
- Barbara Wakefield Purcell, Time and the Valley: Story of the Rondout and Neversink Valleys (1978).
- Time and The Valleys Museum. “Short History of The Town of Neversink": https://www.timeandthevalleysmuseum.org/short-history-of-the-town-of-neversink/