Folder 9: Condemnation, 1908 - 1996

- Correspondence - 6/27/1975 - From: Brendan T. Bryne, Governor of NJ; To: Eugene Howard - asking Howard and the New Jersey Citizen Advisory Board for Tocks Island Project to help him from his stance on the Tocks Island Project Document - “Projected Impact of the tocks Island Dam Project and 38 Mile Reservoir on the Primary Impact Counties of Warren and Sussex, New Jersey, and Monroe and Pike Counties, Pennsylvania - Document - 5/1970 - “The Tocks Island Dam” by Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter - Correspondence - From: Marion Masland, To: Nancy Shukaitis - thanking Shukaitis for the evening spent with Sukaitis and her husband and informing Shukaitis about her weekend - Newspaper clipping - “Open for discussion: Monroe 2020 planners issue report on what needs to be done” from Pocono Record (2/14/1999) - Correspondence - 12/20/1970 - From: Juanita Kusner, To: Mr + Mrs. Joe Shukaitis - filling the Shukaitis in on the lives of the Kusner-Vail family - Newspaper clipping - “Wild, as Far as Jervis” from The Express (7/16/1973) - Correspondence - 5/20/1968 - From: Marion; To: Nancy, Jean, et al - discusses the Sunday Inquirer article by Mr. Carhill, a spring house tour with the Goschenhoppen Historians, and mentioning her questions for the next meeting - Petition - Summer 1965 - Petition opposing the legislation to create a national recreation area along the Delaware River at Tocks Island Reservoir - Correspondence - 8/29/1970 - From: Nancy Shukaitis, To: Senator Richard Schweiker - asking Schweiker to assist the Delaware Conservation Association in preventing the Tocks Island Dam - Correspondence - 7/27/1970 - From: Senator Richard Schweiker, To: Nancy Shukaitis - thanking Shukaitis for informing him the effects of the Tocks Island Project and regrets that her case isn’t being handled expeditiously - Correspondence - 7/21/1970 - From: Nancy Shukaitis, To: Senator Hugh Scott - informing Scott of the entire situation surrounding the acquisition of her land as a result of the Tocks Island Dam - Correspondence - 5/8/1970 - From: James Johnson, To: Senator Hugh Scott - justifying his and the Army Corps of Engineers in regards to the acquisition of land for the Tocks Island Dam Project - Correspondence - 10/1969 - From: James Johnson, To: Property Owner - requesting responses to the attached document in order to determine if the District acquisition program and the people working on it are responsive to the needs and concerns of the people whose property has been acquired - Correspondence - 4/30/1970 - From: Senator Hugh Scott, To: Nancy Shukaitis - informing Shukaitis that he was made aware of her concerns and that on her behalf he wrote to those who caused her concerns - Correspondence - 4/30/1970 - From: Senator Hugh Scott, To: Colonel James Johnson - informing Johnson of the complaints that he has received regarding the land procurement practices of the Engineer Corps in the Tocks Island Dam and the reason for the complaints, which he uses to ask that Johnson proceed differently - Correspondence - 2/11/1970 - From: Senator Hugh Scott, To: Nancy Shukaitis - congratulating Shukaitis on her election as Monroe County Republican Chairman and informing her how to contact him if needed - Document - “Opinion on Tocks Island Lake Project Consultant Report” with a preface by Freeholder Raymond Stem giving his disapproval of the project - Correspondence - 3/3/1980 - From: RBS, To: Nancy Shukaitis - informing Shukaitis about the individuals connected to the image in the book “The Minisink” and additional information found - Document - “Home of Captain John Jacob Shoemaker” with handwritten edits and notes by Shukaitis - Correspondence - 8/21/1979 - From: James W. Coleman, Jr.; To: Hon. Peter H. Kostmayer - discussing the situation of the Captain Jacob Shoemaker House and what are the current plans for its repair - Correspondence - 8/13/1979 - From: Robert B. Shoemaker, Jr.; To: Hon. Peter H. Kostmayer - informing Kostmayer about the decrepit condition of the Shoemaker House and the need for repairs to occur as soon as possible - Correspondence - 3/10/1980 - From: Robert B. Shoemaker, Jr.; To: Nancy Shukaitis - providing her with a letter from Sheila Robinon and her thoughts regarding the Captain Jacob Shoemaker House - Newspaper clipping - “Protest Threat to the Delaware” from The Globe Times (3/3/1980) - Correspondence - 3/10/1980 - From: Robert B. Shoemaker, Jr.; To: Chairman of the Delaware River Basin Commission - asking that the Chairman reconsider the Tocks Island Dam project due to the harm that it will cause - Correspondence - 3/3/1910 - From: Sheila Robinson, To: Robert B. Shoemaker, Jr. - informing Robert how she would proceed with the Shoemaker house restoration, the influx of pioneer villages being made in North Dakota, and her vacation - Correspondence - 7/5/1996 - From: Sheila Robinson, To: Nancy Shukaitis - thanking her for recording information on the Minisink and providing her with information on Bob Shoemaker and how to get in contact with him - Newspaper clipping - “Tocks’ Shoemaker home on Historic Register” from Of the Morning Call (8/7/1979) - Pictures - the stone house of Jacob and Hanna Shoemaker taken sometime between 1900-1911 - Newspaper clipping - “Shoemaker House Named Official Historic Place” from The Easton Express (8/1979) - Newspaper clipping - “Village of Shoemaker’s born during Civil War (4/15/1908) - Map - The Forks of the Delaware in Pennsylvania an English Province in America under Penn Proprietary 1681-1783 - Newspaper clipping - Shoemaker’s, PA from Pocono Record (6/19/1965) - Drawing - Silver Spoon Hanging 38 Sioux in 1862 from James and Fanny Shoemaker - Postcard - Image depicting Tocks Island on the Delaware River - Document - 9/27/1961 -“Public Law 87-328 87th Congress, H.J. Res. 225” - Newspaper clipping - “Conservation Viewpoint: Tocks Island Questions” by Robert J. Bielo - Correspondence - 9/21/1971 - From: Alvin Alm, To: Nancy Shukaitis - informing Shukaitis of how the Council of Environmental Quality has been working alongside the Corps of Engineers to ensure that all precautions are taken regarding Tocks Island Dam Project - Correspondence - 5/3/1968 - From: Robert G. Hudson, To: Senator Allen J. Ellender - informing the Subcommittee on Public Works of the Comstock Society’s concerns regarding the Tocks Island Area Project - Newspaper clipping - “Anti-Tock Wave Rolls On” from The Express (19/20/1971) - Newspaper clipping - “Tocks Dam Opponents Renew Call for Study” from The Morning Call (10/31/1971) - Newspaper clipping - “Ways Cited for Ending Tocks Island Project” from The Morning Call (10/13/1971) - Correspondence - 3/15/1971 - From: Julia Judalel, To: Nancy Shukaitis - expressing her and her family’s investment into the “Stop the Dam” movement - Magazine - The Newark News Section 5 (11/1/1970) - Newspaper clipping - “Nixon’s ecology unit chairman wants Tocks project studies anew” from Times Herald Record (5/8/1971) - Correspondence - 4/30/1968 - From: Celia, To: Nancy Shukaits - informing Shukaitis that she sent in her letter to be published in the Pocono Record - Correspondence - 5/30/1968 - From: Celia, To: Editor of the Pocono Record - asking that he print her statement from “The People Speak” since people have been requesting it - Correspondence - 5/22/1971 - From: Robert G. Heeter, To: Save the Delaware Coalition - informing the SDC of his organization in Baltimore and saying how he would like to assist them in their efforts to stop the Tocks Island Project - Correspondence - 5/1/1968 - From: Honorable Allen J. Ellender , To: Laura M. Seese - providing a list of points that the people in the county affected by the Tocks Island Project to be included in the hearing for the project - Correspondence - 10/16/1968 - From: John Edgar Hoover, To Nancy Shukaitis - informing Shukaitis that the information she provided is not relevant to investigation jurisdiction of the FBI - Document - 6/4/1981 - “Congressional Record–House” - Newspaper clipping - “Tocks’ Cable Car May Not Be Built” - Document - 10/27/1971 - “Statement of Curtin Winsor President, Pennsylvania Environmental Council 313 South Sixteenth Street Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19102 Before the Joint Legislative Committee on Air and Water Pollution of the Pennsylvania General Assembly Regarding Tocks Island Lake” - Newspaper clipping - “4 Congressmen Favor Tocks, 1 Opposes” from The Express (5/15/1973) - Newspaper clipping - “Maraziti Opposed To Tocks Island Dam” from New Jersey Federated Sportsmen (11/1973) - Newspaper clipping - “Reservoir action explained Tocks mudflats? ‘No sir!’” from Record County (2/19/1991) - Newspaper clipping - “Tocks Island Park Job Dammed Up by Cahill” from Daily News (9/14/1972) - Newspaper clipping - “Dams and other Disasters: A Century of the Army Corps of Engineers in Civil Works” from The Christian Science Monitor (9/23/1971) - Document - “Acquisition of Hidden Lake Property” from Congressional record - Newspaper clipping - “County commission vote against Tocks Island project” from Pocono Record (5/9/1972) - Newspaper clipping - “Judge dismisses Tocks-park suit” from Pocono Record (7/7/1967) - Handwritten note - information detailing the current work of the DVCA - Newspaper clipping - “Letters to the Editor” from Easton Express (9/15/1967) - Correspondence - 9/29/1969 - From: Woodrow Berge, To: Honorable Hugh Scott - explaining the entire series of events with the Shukaitis family and the Corps of Engineers attempting to simply appraise the Shukaitis property - Correspondence - 8/13/1969 - From: Nancy Shukaitis, To; John Cannon - informing Cannon that they have complied with the appraisal, that no information regarding dropping the contempt charges has come, and that they are willing to assist him in his career in Pennsylvania