Tocks Island, located upstream from The Delaware Water Gap is a geologic formation on the border of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, where the Delaware River traverses a large ridge of the Appalachian Mountains. The Worthington State Forest is to the immediate northeast on the New Jersey side of the border. U.S. Interstate 80 also... Delaware Water Gap in the The Delaware River at New Hope, Pennsylvania The Delaware River is a river on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It meets tide-water at Trenton, New Jersey. Its total length, from the head of the longest branch to the capes, is 410 miles (660 km), and above the... Delaware River was the controversial site of a dam, proposed in the Events and trends Technology United States tests the first fusion bomb. Optimistic visions of semi-Utopian technological future including such devices as the flying car. across the United States, graffiti as an art form develops, especially among urban African Americans; graffiti eventually becomes one of the four elements of hip... 1950s, which would have created a 37 mile (60 km) long lake between State nickname: Area 119,283 km² (33rd)  - Land 116,074 km²  - Water 3,208 km² (2.7%) Population (2000)  - Population 12,281,054 (6th)  - Density 105.80 /km² (10th) Admittance into Union  - Date December 12, 1787  - Order 2nd Time zone Eastern: UTC... Pennsylvania and State nickname: Area 22,608 km² (47th)  - Land 19,231 km²  - Water 3,378 km² (14.9%) Population (2000)  - Population 8,414,350 (9th)  - Density 438 /km² (1st) Admittance into Union  - Date December 18, 1787  - Order 3rd Time zone Eastern: UTC-5... New Jersey. Although the dam was never built, 72,000 acres (291 km²) of land were acquired, which became the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

External links

• The Legacy of Tocks Island, Pocono Record, August 12, 2001 (http://www.poconorecord.com/report/tocks/)