A depot for Sugar Loaf

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Chester Historical Society

A depot for Sugar Loaf - on the move: The image captures a bustling street scene where an old, wooden depot building is being relocated, drawing the attention of a few onlookers and briefly interrupting traffic along NY State Route 17M on the outskirts of Chester. A man is walking across the street, cars are passing by, and workers are visible on the roof of the depot and beside a truck, which is apparently used for transporting the building. The scene is described in a newspaper clipping as the depot beginning its journey to Sugar Loaf.
A depot for Sugar Loaf - on the move

The image captures a bustling street scene where an old, wooden depot building is being relocated, drawing the attention of a few onlookers and briefly interrupting traffic along NY State Route 17M on the outskirts of Chester. A man is walking across the street, cars are passing by, and workers are visible on the roof of the depot and beside a truck, which is apparently used for transporting the building. The scene is described in a newspaper clipping as the depot beginning its journey to Sugar Loaf.

Name/Title

A depot for Sugar Loaf

Entry/Object ID

chs-019988

Scope and Content

Middletown Sunday Record clipping reporting on the old East Chester L&HRR depot being moved to Sugar Loaf, where it will be renovated and house a new craft shop.

Category

Lehigh & Hudson River Railway Co.
Railroad

Acquisition

Accession

2024.22

Source or Donor

Minisink Valley Historical Society

Acquisition Method

Gift

Archive Details

Creator

Dougherty, Edward P.

Date(s) of Creation

Feb 20, 1971

General Notes

Note Type

Transcription

Note

Then and now Sunday 6/20/71 Middletown Record A depot for Sugar Loaf 
 [photo caption] Traffic on 17K[sic actually 17M] along the outskirts of Chester was momentarily delayed as the station began its journey to Sugar Loaf. 
[photo caption] A Lehigh and Hudson train passes the site of the old East Chester railroad station as men from Walter Kannon's moving crew clear the way to pull the trailer and station out of its foundation. 

[photo caption] The old Sugar Loaf station reproduced on this postage stamp was a carbon copy of the Chester station. By Edward P. Dougherty Sugar Loaf has a railroad station again. No railroad service, to be sure; but the station is there, some 200 feet away from the site of the original Lehigh & Hudson depot, built in the 1880s and torn down in the early 1930s. The "new" station in Sugar Loaf is in reality the "old" station that served East Chester for many years. Long since abandoned, the 16 by 32-foot building was purchased recently by Walter A. Kannon, originator of the craft community that has developed in Sugar Loaf over the past five years. Kannon arranged to have the building moved a distance of four miles on Kings Highway to the Sugar Loaf site last week. With Jo Ann and Chester Ludlow (who purchased the building from him) Mr. Kannon will restore the interior of the station to its original and operate another craft shop there. The Ludlows have also purchased the old Sugar Loaf Grange building and are in the process of setting up a country store there.

Create Date

September 19, 2024

Update Date

October 24, 2024