Sandyfield, New York

Sandyfield was a settlement of about 30 houses in the Town of Ramapo in Rockland County, New York, USA, that was submerged when swampy Beaver Pond was dammed to create 216-acre (0.87 km²) Lake Welch in Harriman State Park by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission in 1928.

Beach at Lake Welch

The hamlet was settled in about 1760 along the road from Stony Point to Central Valley; the road is now a hiking trail called the Hasenclever Road. In 1910, when the state park was created, the residents were notified that they would have to leave their homes; there was an attempt to resist through political channels, but in 1939 the last residents were ordered to leave. By 1942, the lake was completed using workers from the Civilian Conservation Corps that was building the park. The new lake was named in honor of William A. Welch the first chairman of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission that built Harriman.

Source

• Myles, William J., Harriman Trails, A Guide and History, New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, New York, N.Y., 1999.

Municipalities and communities of Rockland County, New York, United States County seat: New City Towns Clarkstown Haverstraw Orangetown Ramapo Stony Point Villages Airmont Chestnut Ridge Grand View-on-Hudson Haverstraw Hillburn Kaser Montebello New Hempstead New Square Nyack Piermont Pomona Sloatsburg South Nyack Spring Valley Suffern Upper Nyack Wesley Hills West Haverstraw CDPs Bardonia Blauvelt Congers Hillcrest Monsey Mount Ivy Nanuet New City Orangeburg Pearl River Sparkill Stony Point Tappan Thiells Valley Cottage Viola West Nyack Other hamlets Centenary Central Nyack Doodletown Garnerville Grassy Point Johnsontown Jones Point Ladentown Middletown Nauraushaun Palisades Rockland Lake Sandyfield Sickletown St. John's in the Wilderness Sterlington Tallman Tomkins Cove