The Last of the Handmade Dams: The Story of the Ashokan Reservoir by Bob Steuding

The Last of the Handmade Dams: The Story of the Ashokan Reservoir

Bob Steuding

127 pages first pub 1989 (view editions)

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The Last of the Handmade Dams tells the story of building New York City's first great Catskill Mountain Resevoir, largely built by pick-and-shovel work. It was a triumph of engineering but with profound consequences for more than 2,000 persons in ...

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