Welcome To Neverskin Township

Neversink, of course, is the name of one of the townships that make up Sullivan County. And, there are several hamlets that constitute present-day Neversink -- including a new hamlet named Neversink that's located just a mile or two from where Old Neversink (once called "Neversink Flats") was located.

NEVERSINK was formed from Rochester, (Ulster Co.) March 16, 1798. Rockland was taken off March 29, 1809, and a part of Fallsburgh, March 9, 1826. (The original act shows that the town of Neversink covered a portion of what is now Fallsburgh, Liberty, Callicoon and Fremont.) The whole town is elevated, and the surface is very much broken and to a considerable extent covered with forests. The principal elevations are Denman Hill and Thunder Hill, the former having an altitude of about 2,000 feet above tide, and the latter a little more. It is watered by the Neversink and its branches; Rondout Creek, which flows to the Hudson, and Chestnut and Lackawack Creeks, tributary to these; Willowemoc Creek; Red Brook, and several small streams tributary to these.

It is a fact worthy of note that this town is the only one in the County in which there is neither lake nor pond. The soil is generally a gravelly loam and is best adapted to pasturage. The people are chiefly engaged in lumbering, tanning and dairying, though the two former branches of industry are receiving less attention than formerly in consequence of the gradual exhaustion of the supply of bark. The town was early settled by tenants who have since purchased the fee simple.