In late 2016, brothers Henry and Gordon MacAdam focused on the one-room schools in the town of Thompson NY, researching and collecting stories from former students, and obtaining historical plaques to record where these structures once stood.

They identified 20 rural schools that existed in Thompson from 1830 to the last which closed its doors in 1960. The Hackle Dam School District #20 was located at the south end of Katrina Falls Road.

The Hackle Dam Project exhibit shows how the proposed hydroelectric dam would have affected the school and the now non-existent logging community around it. An historic tour was also developed through the Neversink Gorge by Nancy Bachana visiting the stone ruins of the dam and lumber mill started by the Dutch settler named Hackle for whom the community was named.