Clove Brook
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The Clove Brook flows into the Neversink River. When it was dammed, the lake it formed was used for ice in the winter, collected for the Erie RR and iceboxes.:
(From the evening Gazette, February 2, 1897: CLOVE LAKE ICE CO.)
New Company That Will Bid for Patronage Next Season. Now Is the time when the icemen gather their harvest for next summer's use. Among those who are gathering just now and are new In the ice business this year is the Clove Lake lce Company, the proprietors of which are Harry Vail and Jas. B. Winters. Last fall they dammed up the brook just below Tappantown and made a lake covering about ten acres. They also built alongside of It a house 40x80 feet for the storage of Ice of the most approved plan, which will hold about 1,000 tons of ice. It is their intention to run a wagon commencing the first of April and deliver first class ice at a very moderate charge. They are gathering now and are getting fine clear ice 13 inches thick. It is now a part of the Minisink Valley Preserve, protected by which of these?
- National Park Service: .373
- Nature Conservancy: .387
- NJ Fish and Wildlife: .401
- NJ Natural Lands Trust: .415
Final Coordinates: N41 20.661, W74 41.XXX |
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