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
On the right is the second Parker Hotel built by J.Y. Parker. The building in the middle of the photo (on the northeast corner) was at one time the W.H. Wilson Store. To the right of the Wilson store was … Continue reading
C.S. Bok, Hackettstown, N.J., to Mort Austin, Eldred June 11, 1894 My dear Friend, Enclosed kindly find eight of your pictures and I kept the other four and did with them accordingly what you told me. I have also seen … Continue reading
Robert Greig’s brothers Thomas and Bennett Greig wanted to create a high class hunting and fishing club on Mill Pond (later called Stege’s Pond). They had rice growing on the upper end of the pond to benefit the large population … Continue reading
Seven Oaks, owned by George and Elizabeth Beck, was another huge, beautiful boarding house. It was set back some distance north of Mill/Stege Road and west of Mill/Stege’s Pond. It was north of the Greig Home. Two more pages of … Continue reading
The massive Greig home built in the early 1890s, was south of Mill/Stege’s Pond and Road. Robert, Kate, Isabelle, and Bennett Greig lived in the huge Greig House. Robert’s sister Jane, his sister-in-law Julia and her daughter lived there also. … Continue reading
Building supplies 35# hammer 2.80 3 cans paint .75 30 gal. paint 42.00 1 boot oil .10 5 L. nails .75 1 bbl. lime 1.50 4 bbl. lime 6.00 5 bbl. lime 7.50 3-1/2 plaster Paris .35 5 gallon b. … Continue reading
Around 1850 Alexander and Margaret Gillies Mills built their home on Highland Lake, north of the lake’s “little finger.” The home was added on to and at some point became a boarding house. (The Mills children—Martha Myers, Margaret Boyd, Mary … Continue reading
