The following two photos came from my mom’s seemingly never ending treasure trove. This is a lot to ask, but does the location in either photo look familiar? Or the two men in the bottom photo?
Does this house look familiar to anyone? It may have been in Lumberland.
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.
I so appreciate the comments Halfway Brook readers have been making.
I continue to group information and photos into the years 1920 to 1950 (plus or minus) for book 3, and today ran across this envelope from Sand Beach.
I have heard some stories of those who were often at Sand Beach on Highland Lake. That is one of the places the guests at Mountain Grove House (my Austin grandparents boarding house) would go for “bathing” (swimming) or boating.
Does anyone know the history of Sand Beach or have photos?
I’ve collected quite a list of boarding house owners from 1920 to 1950. If anyone has more information or photos/postcards!! of the following boarding house owners, it would be greatly appreicated!! You can leave a comment after this post or you can email me: info (at) halfwaybrook (dot) com
Lewis Acor and his daughter Lillian Stidd
Karl Angerstein
Arlington—who owned it and the years.
Peter Barth, Highland Lake
John and Edith Birr
E.H. and Hazel Carroll, Glendella
Gus and Frieda Dasener, on Minisink Ford-Barryville Rd.
M.J. Dennehy, Highland Villa near Highland Lake
Charles and Martha Draxler on York Lake
Charles and Gertrude Frey, Corkscrew Rd.
Gibney, Sunset House, Highland Lake
Margaret Greening
Mary Hankins, Rosemary Lodge
Henry and Elsie Graf, Pine Grove House on Highland Lake
Anna Holden
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