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Beaverkill Creek

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The Beaverkill Creek was a former tributary of the Esopus Creek in the Catskill Mountains of New York. It began in West Hurley, New York, and flowed through the towns of Glenford, Olive Branch and Ashton until it joined the Esopus Creek at Brown's Station, New York. However, the creek was completely submerged when the Ashokan Reservoir was constructed, and its former path is under the east basin. The confluence of the Beaverkill and the Esopus is under the Olivebridge Dam.

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Beaverkill Creek
Reservoir Road, Town of Olive

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12481 Town of Olive
New York, United States
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Brown's Station, New York
Brown's Station, New York

Brown's Station was a hamlet in the Esopus Valley of southeastern Ulster County, New York, United States. It was submerged by the waters of the Ashokan Reservoir, an artificial lake built between 1906 and 1915 to supply fresh water to New York City.The easternmost hamlet in the town of Olive, Brown's Station was named for Alfred Brown, a prominent local farmer. In the village and its environs, there were farms, boarding houses, shops, and a telegraph office. Two streams flowed through the village: the Esopus Creek and the Beaverkill Creek, which merged, at the downhill end of the village, retaining the name, Esopus Creek. Brown's Station was a popular spot, especially for vacationers from New York City, who would come to swim in the creeks, and to enjoy rafting (using rubber inner tubes), boating, and fishing. The village was served by the Ulster and Delaware Railroad; the railroad depot called Brown's Station, which lent the hamlet its name, was one of the busiest passenger and freight depots in the Esopus Valley. The depot at Brown's Station was an instrument of its own demise; shipments of cement were transported there for use in the construction of the Ashokan Reservoir. Having already impounded part of the nearby Croton River and most of its tributaries, agents of the City of New York surveyed a number of places to build another reservoir. Eventually, they decided to flood the Esopus Valley. They started building the dam in 1906, using Rosendale cement, a high-quality hydraulic cement produced at Rosendale in the central part of Ulster County. When the dam was completed in 1912, the sluice was closed and water flooded the valley, a process which was completed in 1915. The buildings of Brown's Station had either been moved or abandoned.Although Brown Station was flooded, some homes retained the town as their address. In the 1950s, letters to Paula Cohen, a nearby resident, were still addressed to Brown Station. People of Brown's Station Wilhelmina L. Matthaeus was born on JAN 29,1907 in Brown's Station. She married Joseph James Ganders on November 1, 1934, in New York City, New York. She died on May 10, 1996, in Bisbee, Arizona, at the age of 89.