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Content: Most residents did not have the means nor connections to fight the inevitable. The F.J.&G. Railroad finally received $1,750,000.00 for its loss of the railroad line from Northville to Mayfield to Broadalbin and its 750 acre Sacandaga Park, the "Coney Island" of the Adirondacks. Owners were allowed to remove houses and barns if they wished. The Presbyterian Church in Batchellerville and the Cold Brook School on North Shore Road were two that were moved. Buildings not moved by 1929 were completely demolished or burned. In all 1,100 people were forced to abandon their homes. The first bids for the dam construction, land clearing, building and cemetery removal were let in 1927. The construction bids were awarded and new people started moving into the area: brush and tree cutters, grave diggers and building movers. Surprisingly, not many local people were employed by the project.