Crest Hill Cottage, Barryville 1-1/2 miles from Shohola Station; Health resort; elevation 1,600 feet. Superior rooms and board. Send for circular. Mrs. Greig. —Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 23, 1895. Highland Cottage, Yulan On Washington Lake; near Shohola Glen, on Erie … Continue reading
Bradley Farm Boarding House, Eldred Isaac M. Bradley, Proprietor 6 miles from Shohola. Conveyance, $1; 5 single, 12 double rooms; adults $6 to $8; children $4 to $5; servants $5 to $6; $1.50 per day; discount for season. Centre of … Continue reading
Sullivan County has of late years almost been annexed to Brooklyn, so large is the Brooklyn exodus which sets in each year with the heat of summer for the crests of the Shawangunks and the picturesque valleys beside the sparkling … Continue reading
This was the scene looking out the window of the Kaese home. Washington Lake is in the background. From 1886 to 1894, an Edward Prange is mentioned as owning Lake View Farm House, a boarding house. Accommodate 20; 13 rooms; … Continue reading
In 1888 to 1890, the Erie RR brochures included Chas. C. Racine as having a boarding house in Eldred. 10 miles [from Shohola which seems a little too many miles]; conveyance, $1. 1 double, 6 single rooms; adults, $7; children, … Continue reading
There were several Crandall families in Highland who seem to be related. Milton and Martha Crandall’s Cold Spring Farm (advertised in 1897) was just off Irishtown Road. Milton had hand dug wells and had run a pipe from the spring … Continue reading
The Spring House on the left was owned by George Layman in 1900. During the last preceding summer and fall [1900], Stephen St. John Gardner renovated the structure [bridge] generally, added additional cables; laid a new floor, supplied new stringers, … Continue reading
Near Echo Hill Farm House, Maria, Christina (left) and Sherman S. Leavenworth (right) watch Truman Leavenworth (left) and Clarence Sergeant sip cider from a keg.
Echo Hill Farm House was the original home of Sherman Buckley and Charlotte Ingram Leavenworth, my Leavenworth great-great grandparents. By 1900 it was the boarding house of my Leavenworth great-grandparents, Sherman S. and Maria Myers Leavenworth. The original house may … Continue reading
