This is Deer Head Lodge From the shores of picturesque Highland Lake in the mountains of Sullivan County, Deer Head Lodge extends a cordial welcome and offers the ideal spot for a happy vacation of relaxation and healthy recreation. Here … Continue reading
Here are some boarding houses mentioned in the Brooklyn Eagle Summer Resort and Travel Directory of 1942: Deer Head Lodge, Highland Lake Glendella, Barryville Riverside Cottage, Barryville Maple Grove Farm, Barryville Laurel Cottage, Yulan Sunset Cottage, Yulan Lake Shore Hotel, … Continue reading
Here are some photos or postcards of Barryville taken before 1945. The Spring House boarding house or inn was on River Road. If you would like to write about your memories of Barryville whether a house, the Riviera Theater, Clouses, … Continue reading
I recently received an 1838 map of Sullivan County, New York, which I have found fascinating. In 1838 the Town of Lumberland included what are now the Towns of Tusten, Highland, and Lumberland. Eldredville, located where the current village of … Continue reading
I would love to hear the memories (or stories you heard) of vacations at any of the boarding houses near Yulan, or on Washington or Bodine Lakes. These are the ones I know about: Boarding houses and lakes on the … Continue reading
Here is a postcard I did not include in Echo Hill and Mountain Grove because I was not sure of its location. Can anyone help? My next post will be about Yulan and the boarding houses nearby on Washington, Bodine, … Continue reading
There were some stores in Barryville and Eldred, but townsfolk continued to travel to Port Jervis for the household items they needed. John B. Jervis, for whom Port Jervis (Carpenter’s Point) was named, had been the chief engineer of the … Continue reading
A number of letters written to my grandfather Mort Austin or his brothers (in the 1880s through at least 1910) indicated that the Austins and their friends often thought of moving somewhere else to find work to pay their expenses. … Continue reading
The man is standing at the center of Eldred. The view is looking south towards Barryville on Brook Road. At the left is the corner of William Wilson’s grocery store. Next, possibly Abel Myers’ store, the Parker Hotel. In the … Continue reading
Bertha Collins was the granddaughter of the Collins family who originally owned the Collins’ house and who I assume Collins Road in Eldred was named after. (By 1905 my Austin grandparents owned one of the Collins homes—there were two I … Continue reading
