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Eureka, New York

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/.