Dolly Family Lodge

General Composites is making face shields and if your in a position to donate $ to help offset their cost, please send a check payable to General Composites to 93 Fox Run Rd, Elizabethtown, NY 12932 c/o Ryan Hathaway. Or you can call General Composites Monday - Thursday 7am-3pm at 518-963-7333 to do a credit card donation. Also if you are making cloth face masks to donate, Ryan will have a drop box at the Hometown Electrical Systems shop at 93 Fox Run Road for them. Please put them in a zip lock bag. Thank you everyone for your continued help during this crisis. We have an amazing community!

Just a reminder that the Town Hall is closed to the public. We will be in office Monday thru Thursday 8 am - 2 pm. Please call 518-873-6555 or e-mail [email protected] with any questions. We will still be selling dump stickers, collecting taxes, etc. Just give us a call and we will make arrangements. Stay well and social distant! See more

TERRY COTTAGE In 1905, Mr. Seth Sprague Terry, a well-known New York Lawyer, purchased 7 acres of land from George W. Jenkins on the north eastern slope of Co...bble Hill in Elizabethtown. In 1906, he purchased 2 more acres of the GW Jenkins land. Terry then contracted Mr. Charles C. Oldruff to build two cottages and a barn on his land. The 26 ft x 38 ft barn was erected first in April 1906. The large cottage was built next with plumbing laid from Deep Hollow Brook, was equipped with a steam heating plant and a hit or miss fireplace. The second and smaller upper cottage began in September 1906, with Charles C. Oldruff still doing the work. The Terry family owned Terry Cottage for 25 years, using it for summer vacationing. After that, E.E. Towne, a counsel for the Humble Oil Company of Texas, bought Terry Cottage during the 1930’s and later in the 1940’s, Louis Persinger, a world renowned violinist and teacher, purchased in property. There Persinger taught his students at the lodge as well as gave concerts in town. In the 1950’s the lodge was sold to Herbert Thomas, who by then owned most of the lodges on Cobble Hill. The complex of camps became known as The Balsams. In the early 1960’s, Mr. Thomas sold Terry Cottage/Camp to Norris and Mary Dolly, who winterized the Camp and raised their six children there. The Camp remains in the Dolly family as the Dolly Family Lodge, and can be rented for gatherings, weddings, reunions, vacation retreats, etc. On a personal note, I remember the tree at the corner of the porch which had to be cut down. Mr. Dolly directed that it only be cut to a certain height so that he could have a bear sculptured out of the stump (as seen in today’s picture).

A little history about Dolly Family Lodge!