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Erickson Lakeside Cabin, is located in Vernon Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. The cabin was added to The National Register of Historic Places on November 3, 2017 (#SG100001778).

The Erickson Lakeside Cabin is a 516 square-foot American Chestnut log cabin which stands on the west side of Lakeside Drive facing east, in Lake Wallkill, Sussex County, New Jersey. The building is a 1- story domestic dwelling with a cathedral ceiling, built in 1934. The John R. Sheckler and S. Clayton Shepperd (real estate developers) cabin was designed by Herb Smith, the architect for the development corporation, and is constructed of logs harvested locally from the free-standing dead trees that resulted from the American Chestnut (Castanea Dentata) blight in North America in the early 1920s. The demise of the American Chestnuts was the result of a disease brought to this county through the import of a Japanese variety at the turn of the century. The Japanese variety carried a disease called cryphonectria parasitica, for which these trees had no immunity and became severely susceptible. The disease spread rapidly, particularly in the northeast of North America and eradicated the northeastern population by the early 1920’s.