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Yankeetown Pond bought for a dollar! (Part 1)
['Tad Wise']
Hudson Valley One
The crew then dumped — and Howard personally bulldozed — untold tons of clay into what had once been the sluiceway’s steep descent, leaving the mills’ run-off ramp (vaguely visible still near the beginning of Pond Road) as the sole and unchecked egress for Yankeetown Pond. At Wapner’s order, circa 1970, Cousins created Pond Road and cleared the sub-division named “Yankeetown Pond Associates.” When Jerry Wapner developed the area he created a “Yankeetown Pond Association,” in which 29 neighbors were deeded authority over the front of YTP through a covenant which read: “Each lot owner shall…receive an undivided 1/29 interest in right of use… and shall have the full use and enjoyment of the pond area.”