Welcome to Deposit, NY
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ripraff
N 42° 03.202 W 075° 24.809
18T E 465785 N 4655783
"Where Nature Blesses Man Progresses"
Waymark Code: WMTZPG
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 01/29/2017
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The image on the sign is that of a lumberjack.
Deposit History
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"The name Deposit was logical because in early times vast quantities of pine lumber were drawn in winter on sleighs, from as far away as the Susquehanna, and deposited on the banks of the river here to await the Spring high waters when the logs were fashioned into rafts sometimes as large as 200 feet in length, and taken to Philadelphia's market. This was in most cases the only cash income for these early settlers, who did business the rest of the year by bartering and the giving of notes of promise to pay...Logging was at first the main industry as settlers cleared the land for residential purposes. Then this part of New York State became agricultural with some very large farms in existence. But the rebuilding of highways and changing economy has reduced farming to a minimum."