Shavertown was a hamlet in

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. It was sacrificed and laid under water with the construction of the

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in 1954. Shavertown had a few hundred inhabitants, mostly reliant on the town's timber industry. The Delaware and Eastern Railroad ran through the town.

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, Arkham Detetive Tales Extended Edition, page 19, 2010, Pelgrane Press

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