Casperkill Watershed Oral History Project

The Spackenkill was once a very small watershed adjacent to the Casperkill watershed.  Today, the headwaters of the Spackenkill creek are actually within the Casperkill watershed. The picture above shows the dry creek bed leading up to Hagan Drive. While Nadine and I interviewed Fran Hartenfels about her experience living along the Casperkill, Fran’s friend […]

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The Spackenkill was once a very small watershed adjacent to the Casperkill watershed.  In the early 1900s the Spackenkill was referred to as Specken zyn kil (number 11 in the 1891 map above). At that time, the creek was much larger and it flowed all the way from the Spackenkill High School area  to the […]

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