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Old Welsh "Sugar Loaf Mtn.", Abergavenny, Wales, UK.
Likely British settler namesake for Sugar Loaf, NY.
Sugar Loaf Grange Hall as seen from intersection of
Pine Hill Rd. and King's Hwy. facing East.
(c. early 20th century)
Conklin's General Store, Originally Jesse Woods' Store,
now Barnsider building.
Main Street, c. 1945.
Building in background is present-day Endico Watercolors.
Taken from the top of Boomer Hill, (just above intersection of Pine Hill and Woods Rd.)c.1945. George Holbert's mule & wagon. L to R - Ray Arkel, Unknown, Jim VanOrden, Diane Mari Westerveld, Mrs. Tannenbaum, Wilma Vance, Helen Mari Kronkhyte, & Edie Vance - standing in front.
Note village in background, and Swetlow's Meadow
prior to Pond.
Postcard of Sugar Loaf Valley as seen from Point Peter,
Site of present-day "Mount Peter Ski Resort"
Sugar Loaf Hamlet & Mountain, c. 1945,
5 years before Swetlow's Pond was built.
Photo taken from crest of "Boomer Hill", presently Pine Hill Rd., between Woods and Hambletonian Roads, near the site of Amzi Knapp's distillery. The intersection of Pine Hill and Hambletonian Roads was known as Calamity Corners, so-monnikered for the history of tragedies which occurred on that spot.
Old Sugar Loaf Inn, 1940s, prior to fire which destroyed the original carriage house. This is the bld'g. across from the present day Methodist Church.
That's the Borden's milk truck hauling it's load from the Creamery.
Cross-country skiing in Swetlow's Meadow (Site of present pond) as viewed from backyard of "Rosner's Soap", 1949. The fenceline follows the modern-day shoreline of the pond which James Mari built in the following year.
Ice skating on (the actual) Creamery Pond (corner of Wood Rd. & King's Hwy).
Creamery pond was a popular skating and gathering site
The Vance girls and the Mari girls picnicing by Creamery Pond on the Creamery's foundation by the tracks. Vance House in background is present-day Boswell home, barns to the right stood where Woods Road presently runs
"The Sandlot" (behind present day "Rosner Soap").
Bill's Deli (Now Barnsider Tavern parking lot.
"Bill's" served as the "Town Hall" from the early 1940s into the 1980s.
Originally Bill Cole's Grocery, Bill Cole sold it to Bill Birch, who renamed it "Bill's Deli". Norman Morasse and Basil Metakes purchased the deli from Bill Cole, and kept his name on the sign. Norm and basil ensured that the "Town Hall" atmosphere of the deli persisted throughout their tenure of ownership. They sold the deli to Jamie "The Mayor" McCaffrey in the early 1980s.
East Chester Station being moved to Sugar Loaf in 1971.
Walter Kannon moved the station to it's present location near the tracks, not far from the site of the original station. 1980 began the station's quarter-century life as a bawdy saloon, which ended abruptly in 2006.
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