The Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area is a 70,000-acre national recreation area administered by the National Park Service in northwest New Jersey and northeast Pennsylvania. It is centered a
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Silver Thread Falls, the smaller waterfall at Dingman's Falls site, near Dingman's Ferry, Pennsylvania, June 2006
Canoe at Poxono Access
The Delaware Water Gap as seen from the Delaware River Viaduct
Tocks Island Dam controversy
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A 1950s proposal to construct a dam near Tocks Island across the Delaware River was met with considerable controversy and protest. Tocks Island is located in the Delaware River a short distance north
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
…Munsee at the time of Dutch and French Huguenot colonization in the late 17th century. The national recreation area was established in 1965 ahead of a dam project which would have flooded a large region north of the Water Gap. Over 15,000 people were displaced as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers acquired land for…
A house in the project area, now abandoned