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Photos contributed by Carolyn
McPherson © 2003
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| OLD
MANSION HOUSE |
| The Old Mansion
House --the oldest hotel in Bloomville
and environs-- was built about 1827, and
for many years conducted by Clayton
Weeks, and later by Jesse Minor. As noted
in the photograph by Carolyn McPherson at
the bottom of the page, the building no
longer exits. Source: Delaware County, New
York: History of the century, 1797-1897:
centennial celebration, June 9 and 10,
1897 by John Harper; Delhi, N.Y.: W.
Clark, 1898.
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| OLD
MANSION HOUSE |
| The
census of 1850 indicates that at
that time the hotel was owned and
operated by Adam Jaques; Jaques died 08
May 1859 in Catskill, Green Co., New
York. In 1860, the hotel was
owned and operated by George Thompson;
according to his headstone in Riverside
Cemetery, Thompson died that year.
Records from 1862 indicate his son, John
A. Thompson, owned The Mansion House. It is not certain
who might have continued to operate the
hotel after John Thompson. A search of
census records for the town of Kortright
and Bloomville, however, reveals that a
John P. Shaw might have owned the hotel
in 1870. Listed as one of
the hotel's residents was the merchant
A.J. Corbin, whose store was just west of
Wright Brook.
Note: The
photograph above was taken prior to 1866
and the start-up of the U&D RR. At
that time the hotel had front porches on
both floors.
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| LOCATION
OF THE OLD MANSION HOUSE |
| Until
1904, Bloomville was the last stop on the
Ulster
& Delaware route and an advertised destination for
summer vacationers who enjoyed the most
picturesque sections of the Catskills by
train. The overgrown foundations of the
old Bloomville roundhouse--south of State
Route 10--are still visible today. In
1904, Oneonta became the head of the
line. The advent of the automobile led to
decreased ridership, and the final trip
of a U & D train occurred in March
1954. Carolyn McPherson, whose
photographs appear on this site, is the
8-year-old in this news
clipping, a granddaughter of William
Hendry Hickok (a conductor on the U &
D), and great-granddaughter of Benjamin
Herkimer Hickok, an engineer on that same
line. As shown in this photograph
taken by Carolyn McPherson on 01 Aug
2003, the Old Mansion House has been torn
down and nothing but the old records,
photos, and postcards remain.
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