The Village of Delta

 Village of Delta NY was established and developed in the 1800's by a man named Prosper E Rudd along with others. The town was located between the city of Rome and the town of Western in the delta river valley connected to the Mohawk river and black river canal.

 The town was full of farms shops and business and later got a saw and grain mills. In 1903 New York state wanted to enlarge and improve the New York State  canal system and that required more water. To get the water they needed for the canals improvements they needed to dam the Mohawk river and flood the town of Delta. The reason the state picked the town to be flooded because there had been an earthen dam some were near were the current delta dam is and the area had been a lake. Construction on the dam started in October 1908 after moving and clearing the homes trees and cemetery's. The dams is 100 ft tall 1,1000 feet long and 85,0000 cubic yards of cement with a 300 ft spillway. The dam itself hold 2.7 million cubic feet of water and took 4 years to fill.

Black River Canal lock

1908 the New York State Canal System leased abou

t 350 acres to the New York State Parks

and Recreation, then in 2005 The Canal

Corporation transferred the park's land and 370 more

acres making the park 720 acres to the recreation
and historic preservation. Some of the home and

buildings from the town of delta can still be found i
n The city of Rome and Town of Western

Delta Lake

Herkimer Diamonds

Herkimer diamonds located in Herkimer New York. Herkimer diamonds are also called little falls diamonds and Middlefield diamonds and  are not real diamonds but they are double-terminated quartz in an outcrop of dolomite that means that is has two pointed ends and found in dolostone similar to limestone they are called diamonds due to the clarity and the multi faceitings. The crystals in New York were formed 500 million years ago in a shallow sea bed from sediment from the Adirondack mountains . The Native Americans knew of the crystals finding them in streams and fields thinking highly of them using them for tools and jewelry till the 1600s when they were introduced to glass beads by the Europeans. If your wondering if Herkimer diamonds have value yes they do but nothing close to a real diamond for a Herkimer diamond that is 4mm is $6 a real diamond the same size is about $1600