As the title mentions, the 1830 home built by James Eldred (which before 1850 had one room with a post office) is in the background.
Does anyone know who this young woman and young boy are?
As I have time, I am archiving and organizing all the files, information, and photos on my computer, and ran across this postcard.
The first buildings across the road in the middle of the card are the Methodist church and their wagon shed.
On the right of the card, on Eldred’s NW corner is the building I think may have originally been owned by Charles Wilson.
On the NE corner was William H. Wilson’s store (later Dunlap’s Restaurant); then Straub’s Hotel, originally built and owned by James Y. Parker.
The house in the distance on the far right could be Mountain Grove, if the Austin Mountain Grove home had a red roof.
A short ways from the southeast corner was the Parker Hotel, the second one James Y. Parker built. It often housed the post office.
The road in the foreground continued northwest and went by the Leavenworth’s Echo Hill Farm House.
Does anyone have memories of Eldred Boarding Houses, Hotels, or stores from the 30s to the 50s?
Do any of Halfway Brook viewers remember hearing about Frosch’s Casino on Beaver Brook?
In the middle on the left hand side is Saint Anthony’s Church in Yulan. Does anyone know whose house is/was on the right?
This is Deer Head Lodge
From the shores of picturesque Highland Lake in the mountains of Sullivan County, Deer Head Lodge extends a cordial welcome and offers the ideal spot for a happy vacation of relaxation and healthy recreation.
Here you will meet the kind of friendly, clean cut people you’ll enjoy knowing and keeping as friends over the years to come. Plan now to spend a vacation here with your family and friends.
Modern buildings equipped with every comfort and convenience. Spacious, well-ventilated rooms, all with hot and cold running water. Cozy, homelike furnishings amid which our guests spend their happiest hours.
Food here is tops in both quality and quantity. Meals prepared and served under the personal supervision of Mr. and Mrs. Eggers, are satisfying to the most exacting guest.
Click to see photos of Deer Head Lodge being demolished in April 2010.
Here are some boarding houses mentioned in the Brooklyn Eagle Summer Resort and Travel Directory of 1942:
Deer Head Lodge, Highland Lake
Glendella, Barryville
Riverside Cottage, Barryville
Maple Grove Farm, Barryville
Laurel Cottage, Yulan
Sunset Cottage, Yulan
Lake Shore Hotel, Highland Lake
Laurel Brook Cottage, Barryville
The Colonial, Yulan
Handsome Eddy Farm, Barryville
The Maple Crest, Yulan
Sunset View House, Highland Lake
Cantwell’s West Shore Cottage, Yulan
Perhaps my readers would be interested in searching for New York News from Fulton History, a site that features over 18,269,000 Old New York State Historical Newspaper pages.
This is the link to page one which lists their searchable old New York newspapers.
It’s helpful if you have a fast internet connection if you search for names on the Fulton site.
Here are some photos or postcards of Barryville taken before 1945. The Spring House boarding house or inn was on River Road. If you would like to write about your memories of Barryville whether a house, the Riviera Theater, Clouses, Reber or boarding houses between Yulan and Barryville such as Woodland Cottages, that’d be great.
I recently received an 1838 map of Sullivan County, New York, which I have found fascinating.
In 1838 the Town of Lumberland included what are now the Towns of Tusten, Highland, and Lumberland.
Eldredville, located where the current village of Eldred is, seems to be the only post office in all of Lumberland. This is quite interesting because I thought that before being called Eldred, the location was called Halfway Brook Village.
I have seen letters addressed to Halfway Brook or just Lumberland, but 1845 was the earliest one.
Eldredville P.O. is located where James and Polly Vandorsol Mulford first settled at the end of 1815. James Eldred (father of Charles C.P. Eldred) was the postmaster around 1830. A room of James’ home was the post office.
Also of interest to me were the many sawmills located along the rivers.
Halfway Brook—11
Ten Mill River’s 2 branches—17
Beaver Brook—9
Between the mouth of the Ten Mile River and Beaver Brook were several streams with a total of 10 sawmills
The stream from Long Pond (Beaver Pond)—6
The lakes shown are Long Pond (Beaver Pond), Hagan’s Pond (Highland Lake), Sand Pond, Round Pond, Mud Pond?, and York Lake. There is no Mill/Stege’s Pond or Washington, Bodine, or Montgomery Lakes.
I would love to hear the memories (or stories you heard) of vacations at any of the boarding houses near Yulan, or on Washington or Bodine Lakes. These are the ones I know about:
Boarding houses and lakes on the west side:
Washington Lake, Bodine Lake, Montgomery Lake
Bradley/Avery
The Maple Crest (Walters)
The Colonial (Hensels)
Washington Beach House (Tethers)
Laurel Cottage (Mr. and Mrs. James Parker)
Sunset Cottage (Mr. & Mrs. Lewis Hazen)
Lake View Farm (Kaeses)
Grand Vue Inn or Grand View Farm (Bornsteins)
Park Hotel (Mr. & Mrs. Atwell Bradley)
Bertram’s Cottage (Mrs. Bertram)
Yulan Cottage (Hensel and later )
West Shore Lodge (Cantwells)
Woodland Cottages (Herman and Mathilde Protz)
Highland Cottage (Kalbfus)
Minisink Lodge and West Shore Cottage (both became part of Cantwell’s)
Bodine Cottages (Bodines)
Twin Oaks
Here is a postcard I did not include in Echo Hill and Mountain Grove because I was not sure of its location. Can anyone help?
My next post will be about Yulan and the boarding houses nearby on Washington, Bodine, or Montgomery Lakes. I am hoping former summer boarders in the area might stop by this Halfway Brook site and share their memories in the comment section.
I will also post on the other locations—Barryville, Eldred, and Highland Lake—and maybe we’ll hear from people who visited or worked at the boarding houses in the Town of Highland, New York, many years ago.
