Oops! If you got a notice that Monkey Wards was the name of this post, you are probably wondering how that matched up with Highland Hotel. It doesn’t really connect and chalk it up to writer error.
As you might imagine, running a boarding house was a considerable amount of hard work, including in 1906, getting water from the well. Just like many other boarding house owners, Mort Austin also farmed. In 1906 Mort and Jennie Austin’s … Continue reading
Mort and Jennie Austin bought the Collins’ place on 9 acres of land for $300 from Emma Kelso Collins, wife of Tom K. Collins, in April 1905. The former Collins’ home (which was on Collins Road) became Mort and Jennie’s … Continue reading
This lady is in several photos connected with Mort and Jennie Austin’s family and their boarding house, Mountain Grove. Does she look familiar to anyone?
Jennie Crawford mentioned Jack Myers moving into his new home in her letter of April 24, 1904. Perhaps it was his boarding house called Ferncliff Lodge. [Ferncliff would be owned by Guido Bischoff around 1920. Later it would be owned … Continue reading
In the following letter, Jennie Crandall mentions Cleta (Myers) Horton, the daughter of Abel and Maria Hankins Myers. The Abel Myers’ family lived at their Orchard Terrace boarding house on the hill near the Congregational Church in Eldred. Orchard Terrace … Continue reading
View of Eldred from the east in the early 1900s. A.S. Myers owned the Orchard Terrace boarding house on the far left behind the Congregational Church. The house in the distance, past the Congregational Church, was originally owned by the … Continue reading
Recently a Halfway Brook reader sent me this delightful 1913 photo of her mom (the little girl in the center) at The Arlington boarding house mentioned in the previous post. My mother’s parents were Frank J. and Julia Wolff. I … Continue reading
For Sullivan County Republican Watchman, July 1903 Popular with New York visitors are the following hotels and boarding houses: Washington Lake House at Yulan Pine Grove Farm at Eldred West Farm at Yulan Myer’s Farm House at Eldred Minisink Farm … Continue reading
