Echo Hill and Mountain Grove has been uploaded, and I will soon have a proof copy. If that isn’t quite right, I will make corrections and hopefully by the end of September Echo Hill and Mountain Grove will be available!! … Continue reading
The summer cottages, hotels and boarding houses thickly planted on the mountain slopes and by the lakes and living streams of Sullivan, Delaware, and Western Ulster Counties, are now tenanted by a larger throng of city visitors than ever before. … Continue reading
1886 lithograph of a busy scene on Broadway in New York City titled: A glimpse of New York’s dry goods district; The largest in the world, covering a space of 135 acres; containing 4,500 firms; employing $800,000,000 capital. —Source: Library … Continue reading
“Echo Hill and Mountain Grove” update: There are a few last minute changes happening and I am hoping the book can be uploaded for a proof copy within the next two days. I hope you will agree it was well … Continue reading
Delaware House, 1882 Mrs. M.A. Holbert Proprietor; F.J. Holbert, Manager. 1/3 of a mile on banks of Delaware at junction of Lackawaxen. Conveyance free. Accommodates 100; 15 single rooms; 50 double rooms; $10 to $12; $2 per day. Discount for … Continue reading
Menzo Quick, George Eckhart, George Mills, Alonzo A. Calkin and James K. Gardner and their successors as directors and all other persons who may hereafter be subscribers to or holders of the stock hereinafter mentioned are hereby constituted a body … Continue reading
The district school at Barryville has been closed on account of the Scarlet Fever. There has been four deaths in that place from it, three of them were members of the school. The first was Mina Cortright, 16 years of … Continue reading
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow died March 24, 1882, at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. My dad, Art Austin, often quoted three of Mr. Longfellow’s poems: The Children’s Hour, Paul Revere’s Ride, and The Song of Hiawatha. The following newspaper article commemorating … Continue reading
1883 front and back covers of New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad’s, Summer Homes and Rambles. The New York and Erie Railroad originated in 1832, became the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad in 1878, and the Erie … Continue reading
The Last Resting Place In accordance with a wish often expressed of late years, President Garfield will be buried in Lake View Cemetery, at Cleveland, Ohio. This cemetery lies upon a high wooded ridge in the outskirts of that city, … Continue reading
