This is the side yard of one of many homes abandoned at the Delaware Water Gap when the Army Corps of Engineers used eminent domain in the early 1960s to acquire much of the valley for its plan to create on the northwestrn NJ-PA border one of those dam/reservoir projects that are so common in the South and Southwest. Fortunately, in an early victory by conservationists, the project was withdrawn, and the land was converted to a National Recreation Area, and remains one of the wildest places in NJ.