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Rock Royal, New York

Rock Royal, New York

Though Rock Royal had been settled for several generations, the hamlet was renamed Rock Royal, and a creamery was established, in the 1890s.

About this community

Dam
Cannonsville Dam
River
West Branch of the Delaware River
Established
1806
Inundated
1962
Population
25

Sources

  • Diane Galusha, Liquid Assets: A History of New York City’s Water System Expanded Edition (2016).
  • “Cannonsville General Testimony Exhibits.” 1972. New York City Department of Environmental Protection, DEP Archives.
  • Helen Schriver-Zandt, Memories (2007).
  • David Murray, ed., Delaware County, New York: History of the Century 1797-1897 (1898).
  • https://www.dcnyhistory.org/images7/RockRoyalLftLG.jpg