Spackenkill: The origin of the word and the path of the creek
Posted in Spackenkill on Jun 25th, 2010 No Comments »
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 […]