Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Quicksand in Treadwell Hollow

 




'Note 63:'



'63 in the early 1980s: Bill Stinson reports seeing pits of quicksand—a brilliant blue clay the consistency of grease—beside the 

brook up in Treadwell Hollow and also below the garden at his farm. On one occasion he too went in up to his thighs.

perhaps as early as 1952: The house appears in the 1950 directory as “Sanborn Tenny [sic] sum res,” but in the 1952, 1954, 

and 1957 editions as “Vacant, sum res.” (Directories are sometimes mistaken.) It was also in 1954 that the Tenneys made a 

new survey of all their lands, perhaps preparatory to their first sale of land in 1955.

downstream from the camp: The deal was struck with Andy Garrison, who arranged to have the work done by Lee Hammond, 

who later ran Garrison’s Mobil station and small restaurant (Soup ’n Such) at the site of the A-frame Bakery across from the 

former Taconic Restaurant on Cold Spring Road. Jim George remembers seeing Hammond’s logging operation when he rode 

horseback in Treadwell Hollow in the mid-to-late 1960s. Bill Rice, who lived at Peace Valley Farm in the 1960s, and Dick 

George (b. 1941), who has long hunted deer in Treadwell Hollow, confirm that the sawmill was located on the left of 

Treadwell Hollow Road, just before the side road to Berlin Road. (Jim and Dick George, cousins, are descendants of the 

Arthur and Harry George who once lived on Berlin Road.). Remains of the sawmill were visible in 1973, when Christian 

Curtis, a Williams student, lived in the Peace Valley farmhouse.'


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