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Neversink Tunnel
Neversink may refer to: Places in the U.S. state of New York * Neversink, New York, a town in Sullivan County *Neversink Gorge, in Forestburgh *Neversink Preserve, in Orange County *Neversink Reservoir, a New York City Reservoir in the Town of Neversink * Neversink River, a tributary of the Delaware River Other *''USS Neversink'', a pseudonym for the ''USS United States'' (1797) applied by author Herman Melville *A short story in the collection ''When the Nines Roll Over ''When the Nines Roll Over (and Other Stories)'' is a 2004 short story collection by David Benioff. A short film adaptation of the first of the seven stories, for which Benioff wrote the screenplay, directed, and produced, was released in 2005. ...'' by David Benioff See also * * Navesink (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neversink, New York
Neversink is a town in Sullivan County, New York, United States. The population was 3,366 at the 2020 census. The Town of Neversink is in the northeastern corner of the county. The Neversink River that flows through the town is claimed to be the birthplace of American fly fishing. History The town was formed from the Town of Rochester in Ulster County, New York in 1798 before Sullivan County was formed. The Town of Rockland was created from part of Neversink in 1809, and part of Neversink was used to make the newer Town of Fallsburg in 1826. When the Neversink and Rondout reservoirs were built, as part of the New York City water supply system, many communities were submerged. The communities of Old Neversink and Bittersweet were lost to form the Neversink Reservoir, while Eureka, Montela, and Lackawack were lost to form the Rondout Reservoir. In 1935, the town passed a dry law prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages, which remained in effect despite repeated efforts t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neversink Gorge
The Neversink Gorge is located in the town of Forestburgh, New York, USA, and is one of the more outstanding features of the Neversink River. A portion of the western side of the gorge, above Denton Falls, through High Falls, to the entrance of Eden Brook, is a private nature sanctuary called The Turner Brook Reserve; the entire eastern side and the remaining western property is a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) controlled Unique Area, often called the Neversink Gorge Unique Area. History The current borders of the Neversink Gorge Unique Area and the private lands in the Neversink Gorge were amassed as a private game preserve by Ambrose Monel in the late 1890s through the early 1900s. Monel, who was president of International Nickel and patented Monel Metal, was inspired by the conservation ethic established by John Burroughs and John Muir to purchase farms, tanneries and even entire towns, demolish the buildings and revert the land to its wild s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neversink Preserve
The Neversink Preserve is located in Deerpark, Orange County, New York. It was created in 1993 by The Nature Conservancy. They purchased of land on the Neversink River and created the Neversink Preserve in order to protect the newly discovered and federally endangered species of mussel, the dwarf wedge mussel. Over time they have purchased more land so that the Neversink Preserve covers . Theodore Gordon, considered the father of modern American fly-fishing, perfected his dry-fly techniques here in the 19th century. Nearly 15 million people rely on the waters of the Delaware River Basin for drinking water and industrial use, making the Neversink Preserve a top priority of The Nature Conservancy. Flora Trees *Sugar maple *Red maple *River birch *Sycamore *Red oak *Green ash Wildflowers *Bee balm * Cardinal flower * Dutchman's breeches * Blue flag * Closed gentians *Trout lily *Violet Fauna Mammals * Otters and beavers live in the creeks and wetlands that crisscross the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neversink Reservoir
Neversink Reservoir is a reservoir in the New York City water supply system. It is located in the Catskill Mountain town of Neversink in Sullivan County, New York, 75 miles (120.6 km) northwest of the City. It is fed by the Neversink River, the longest tributary of the Delaware River. Water collected in the reservoir in turn goes through the Neversink Tunnel a short distance east to Rondout Reservoir to be pooled with that from Pepacton and Cannonsville reservoirs which form the west-of-the-Hudson River components of the Delaware Aqueduct. Together, they provide nearly half of the city's daily consumption. History Construction began in 1941, as the city realized that after World War II, it would need to increase its supply aggressively to meet explosive growth. Neversink was ultimately chosen after opposition from the region's trout fishermen and the geologic unfeasibility of the site scotched plans for smaller reservoirs along Willowemoc Creek. Two local hamlets wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neversink River
The Neversink River (also called Neversink Creek in its upper course) is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of the Delaware River in southeastern New York (state), New York in the United States. The name of the river comes from the corruption of an Algonquin language, Algonquian language phrase meaning "mad river." The Neversink River is considered by many to be the birthplace of American dry fly fishing.Askins, Justin. ''The Legendary Neversink: A Treasury of the Best Writing About One of America's Great Trout Rivers'', Skyhorse Publishing, 2007, page xv Course The Neversink's main flow begins just south of the border between present-day Ulster County, New York, Ulster and Sullivan County, New York, Sullivan County (United States), counties, where the east and west branches of the river join near the hamlet (place), hamlet of Claryville, New York, Claryville. Both branches begin o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS United States (1797)
USS ''United States'' was a wooden-hulled, three- masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy and the first of the six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794. The name "United States" was among ten names submitted to President George Washington by Secretary of War Timothy Pickering in March of 1795 for the frigates that were to be constructed. Joshua Humphreys designed the frigates to be the young Navy's capital ships, and so ''United States'' and her sisters were larger and more heavily armed and built than standard frigates of the period. She was built at Humphrey's shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and launched on 10 May 1797 and immediately began duties with the newly formed United States Navy protecting American merchant shipping during the Quasi-War with France. In 1861, ''United States'' was in port at Norfolk when she was seized by the Virginia Navy. She was subsequently commissioned into the Confederate navy as CSS ''United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When The Nines Roll Over
''When the Nines Roll Over (and Other Stories)'' is a 2004 short story collection by David Benioff. A short film adaptation of the first of the seven stories, for which Benioff wrote the screenplay, directed, and produced, was released in 2005. Background After the success of '' The 25th Hour'', Benioff wrote collections of short stories that he would later release as a compilation in ''When the Nines Roll Over (and Other Stories)''. There is a total of seven short stories. The stories are ''When the Nines Roll Over'', ''The Devil Comes to Orekhovo'', ''Zoantrophy'', ''The Barefoot Girl in Clover'', ''De Composition'', ''Garden of No'', ''Neversink'' and ''Merde for Luck'' Plot A collection of short stories. The first story, which is the title story (''When the Nines Roll Over''), is about a jaded hipster record executive who is trying to steal a talented and sexy young singer away from a small label. The other stories are varied, ranging from the tale of a young soldier ordered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
