New York Has A Lost Town Most People Don’t Know About
Lea Monroe
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Most of the greatest destinations that you’ll ever visit in the state of New York are our small towns. With so many fantastic small towns scattered all throughout our state, you may have started to feel like you had crossed all of the big-name locations off of your bucket list. But what if I were to tell you that there’s actually a hidden town in the Catskills that you’ve probably never even seen before? Let’s test your knowledge of the Empire State as we discover one of the more interesting lost towns in New York.
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Since the old Neversink, NY is underwater, perhaps you can imagine what it must have been like as you enjoy fly-over video of the Neversink Reservoir as it looks today:
Neversink is one of several fascinating lost towns in New York that lie beneath our treasured bodies of water. Did you realize that lost towns were hiding underneath our state’s reservoirs? To take a look at other pieces of the past, check out how the remnants of this abandoned zoo are hauntingly beautiful!
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Why did Neversink Sink?
While Neversink did not sink, per se, Neversink, New York was submerged underwater in 1941 to create the Neversink Reservoir which was needed to provide drinking water to the residents of New York City. Neversink and the town of Bittersweet were both submerged when the reservoir was created. Neighboring towns of Eureka, Montela, and Lackawack were also flooded to form the Rondout Reservoir.
Are there any ghost towns in New York?
As with pretty much every state, New York has had plenty of abandoned towns. Some may even be haunted. Regardless if you believe in ghosts or not, here are a few abandoned ghost towns in New York:
- Doodletown, Stony Point, NY: While a town name like Doodletown is too whimsical to have actual ghosts, the town did slowly fade away. When World War II began, many of the town's residents went off to war, and many other silly moved away. The town began to crumble in the 1950s as buildings aged. The last building standing was a schoolhouse that lasted until 1980. Today the land is part of Bear Mountain State Park.
- Love Canal, Niagara Falls, NY: This neighborhood has a tragic story. From 1942 through 1952 a company was dumping chemical waste in Love Canal - 20,000 tons of chemical waste. Even though it was disclosed that this was a chemical waste disposal site homes and schools were built across the street from the dump. In the 1970s the town received national attention due to the high occurrence of Leukemia and other illnesses. It is now completely abandoned.
- Tahawus, Newcomb, NY: Many of the structures still remain in this abandoned town, so it certainly seems like a true ghost town. In its day it was a thriving mining town in the Adirondacks, but today it is a collection of broken-down buildings with plenty of stories to tell. One such story involves sightings of a man riding a horse, who was believed to have been murdered.