Continuing a tradition started by the Fleischmann Family in 1895. During summer, the Fleischmanns Museum of Memories, located in an adjacent carriage barn, serves to acquaint tourists with the town’s historic role as a resort colony. Nineteenth-century baseball games played at Fleischmanns Park periodically throughout the warmer months. MEETINGS: Pine Hill Arms, Main Street, Pine Hill HOURS: Open by appointment until COVID-19 restrictions are lifted. Check the FAB’s Facebook page for details and announcements. MEETINGS: These occur as needed at Skene Library. MEETINGS: By Zoom as announced periodically on Facebook Pageįleischmanns First Facebook Alliance for Business (FAB)

HOURS: Tuesday: 10am – 2pm | Wednesday – Friday: 1pm-5pm | Saturday: 10am – 2pm | Sunday & Monday – Closed

Fleischmanns is still graced with many of the virtues that have been bringing visitors up since the 1870’s, and the Village is continually being rediscovered by subsequent generations of residents and visitors.1017 Main Street, Fleischmanns, NY, 12430 Part of this is due to the growth of the ski industry in the area-offering new economic benefits and making Fleischmanns into a year-round vacation destination. And there has been a huge increase in the number of second-home owners. The advent of the automobile brought about a new style of vacationing motor courts, later motels, replaced the earlier hotels. There was some resurgence after World War Two, and people today will reminisce about how crowded the streets were then.

World War One brought some decline, and then, as patterns of travel and tourism changed, the number of visitors grew less and less each year. Post card images and photos from that period show huge crowds on the streets in the summer many in quite fancy dress, even with parasols. Some reports state that the stands at the Mountain Athletic Club field could hold 5000 people, In grateful recognition, the expanded Village renamed itself Fleischmanns in their honor. When the Fleischmann family left the area for good in 1913, they donated their park property on Wagner Avenue, where baseball and other summer pastimes entertained throngs of visitors to the Village. By 1888 there was a separate Fleischmanns Post Office, serving the booming business at the west end of town Bridge Street was the dividing line between the two areas. (Picture a 19th Century version of the Kennedy Compound at Hyannis.) This encouraged many others from NYC to build their own summer homes, and for many decades the area around Fleischmanns absolutely boomed in the summers. Most impressive of all, the wealthy Fleischmann family (of yeast fame and fortune) purchased land above the Railroad, overlooking Griffin’s Corners, where they built a family compound with five mansions and many out-buildings. A number of large and medium sized hotels and guest houses were built. Local farmers quickly found that they could make money hosting summer visitors trying to escape from the heat in pre-air conditioning NY. A trip that had taken many difficult hours (or days) on the rough roads suddenly became a matter of hours. It suddenly opened up the area to visitors from New York City, and from much farther away. In the 1870’s, a railroad up from Kingston was built, eventually known as the Ulster & Delaware Railroad.

Fleischmanns museum of memories