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"Farewell to Eldred" concludes the story of the families who
settled on either side of Halfway Brook, in the Town of Highland,
New York, first read about in "The Mill on Halfway Brook," and
continued in "Echo Hill and Mountain Grove." Through the eyes of
her Austin and Leavenworth relatives, Louise Smith weaves an
account of the daily lives of the descendants of early settlers
(Austin, Leavenworth, Eldred, Myers, Bodine, Bradley, Bosch, Clark,
Gardner, Hallock, Mills, Boyd, Horton, Parker, Greig, Stege,
Sergeant, and Tether) who still lived in one of the the five
hamlets: Eldred, Highland Lake, Yulan, Barryville, or Minisink
Ford, in the Town of Highland (originally Lumberland). We meet
newcomers (Frey, Hensel, Theuer, Pankow, Hainzl, Bertram,
Lorphelin, and Mellan), often from New York City, who purchase and
run established boarding houses still vital to the area's economy.
The Erie Railway, Barryville Glass Factory (for a short while), and
(later) Narrowsburg Lumber also offered employment. Some 50
first-person reminiscences tell of stills, baseball teams, radio
KDKA, the arrival of electricity, boarding house life, flooding,
the Depression, the search for employment, and World War II, in the
years 1920 to 1950. Daily life-its joys and sorrows-is told through
1,100 photos, postcards, and documents, 150 letters, four diaries
(shared by over 100 contributors) interwoven with World, National,
and Local News; and Boarding House Ads. "Farewell to Eldred," the
third and final book in the "Memoirs from Eldred, New York,
1800-1950" Series, includes original maps of boarding house
locations, an extensive Appendix (with 1920, 1930, and 1940
Censuses), and an Index of some 2,550 people, places, and events.
"Echo Hill and Mountain Grove" continues the story started in "The
Mill on Halfway Brook," in the Town of Highland, Sullivan County,
New York, from 1880 to 1920. It is an account of the change from
lumbering, rafting, and bluestone quarrying, to that of running
boarding houses in the picturesque hamlets of Barryville, Minisink
Ford, Yulan, Eldred, and Venoge located near the Delaware River.
TheMill on Halfway Brookrecountsthe life and times of families who
settled near Halfway Brook in the heavily forested original Town of
Lumberland, Sullivan County, New York. It spansthe years from 1800
to 1880, and is the first in the series,Memoirsfrom Eldred, New
York, 1800-1950. The principal families in the book (Eldred,
Austin, Leavenworth, and Myers) built their homes in what became
the hamlet of Eldred, in the Town of Highland. Some of their
friends and kinsfolk (the Clarks, Gardners, Hallocks, Hickoks,
Sergeants, Van Tuyls, and others)livedin nearby hamlets
(Barryville, Pond Eddy, Glen Spey, Narrowsburg, Tusten, or Bethel).
The story includes references to the neighboring Pennsylvania towns
of Shohola, Lackawaxen, and Mast Hope. TheMill on Halfway
Brookfollows the main occupations of the community, including
lumbering, tanning, river rafting, working for the D&H Canal
Company, and bluestone quarrying.The Civil War chapter mentions
many of the men from the Town of Highland who fought in the war,
and has major excerpts from 50 letters written by Corporal Sherman
S. Leavenworth. Thenarrative weaves vignettes of townsfolk,
preachers, Congregational and Methodist Churches, regional and
national events with historical information, censuses, an 1875
biography, Church records, and familyland documents. The book has
300 photos and postcards, 17 old and new maps, and 200 letters
(1845-1880). TheMillon Halfway Brookis fully indexed, with names of
over 900 people, places, and events.
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