HomeMy WebLinkAboutVISITING Enfield Falls 1998 Sue Thompson NL ArticleVisiting Enfield Falls Hotel
What could this piece of glass in partial shape of a boat mean? Was it a beautiful cream pitcher, which was used at the Enfield Falls Hotel? Could that old "square" nail they found
be the nail that held up the main support beam to the hotel? Could the hotel really have hosted 70 couples in its ballroom? What was the exact size of the hotel? Who were the visitors
on the hotel? What about the hotels fate? Did it really burn down? These questions and many more have come to the surface as geophysical surveys are being conducted at the site of
the Enfield Falls Hotel in Upper Treman State Park. This past spring and summer Dr. Sherene Baugher and her students from Archaeology, Preservation and Landscape class at Cornell University,
have been conducting research on the buildings which were located in Enfield Falls.
Deeds to the hotel and land were traced for ownership of the hotel and maps used to locate the exact position of the hotel. Hotelkeepers were documented from 1853 to 1895. The Hotel
was "roughly opposite" the present stone and timber pavilion on the east side of Five Mile Creek. In 1916 Robert H. Treman stated that the hotel had not been open for a number of years,
and the building was partially demolished. The Ithaca Journal reported in the 1920's that the hotel had burned. The students and Dr. Baugher are still currently working at the park
to locate the exact position of the hotel and it's surrounding buildings. If you want to read more on the Enfield Falls community the Treman Park has a wonderful brochure called "Robert
H. Treman State Park - The Hamlet of Enfield Falls." By Neil A. Poppensiek. Which you will find in the "Old Mill", or you may request a copy of me.