Eureka, New York
Merriman Dam inundated Eureka in 1953. Roundout Reservoir displaced 1200 residents in total between the towns of Lackawack, Montela, and Eureka.
About this community
- Dam
- Merriman Dam
- River
- Rondout Creek
- Established
- 1798
- Inundated
- 1942
- 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/.