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SOUVENIR OF 
 
 LIBERTY AND VICINITY 
 
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 PUBLISHED BY 
 
 OTTO HILLIG, Photographer 
 
 LIBERTY, NEW YORK • ■ :".;:.•;: ' 
 
Two Copies Received 
 
 AUG 8 1903 
 
 C«py"6fi< E.""> 
 CUkSSO '^ XXc No. 
 
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 COPY B. 
 
 
 
 The pictures reproduced in this book are halftone 
 
 
 
 enj^ravinKS made from original photographs by Otto 
 
 
 
 Hillig. This bodk will be sent postpaid to any address 
 
 
 
 upon receipt of twenty-five cents. 
 
 
 
 Address all orders to 
 
 
 
 HiLLiG's Photo Studio 
 
 
 
 Liberty, N. y. 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Copyright ig05, by Ono Hillig, Liberty. N. Y. 
 
LIBERTY, NEW YORK 
 
 THIS village is located in the geographical center of Sullivan County, on the highest point reached by 
 the Ontario iS: Western RaiKva\', one hundred and nineteen miles from New York City, and in the 
 extreme southwestern part of the Catskills, which end here in a series of forest-clad and cottage-crowned 
 buttes, known as Walnut Mountain, Round Top, Liberty Heights, Sumac Point, Mount Pisgah, etc. Their 
 summits can be seen from the village, which is scarcely twn miles away, and whose suburbs they properly are. 
 
 The altitude of the village and suburbs varies from one thousand six hundred to two thousand four 
 hundred feet, affording what well-traveled people declare to be the finest, most varied and most extensive views 
 to be found east of the Mississippi. From Walnut Mountain, — the lone giant sentinel of the Catskills, on 
 whose charmed slopes Liberty hangs like a chosen jewel, — the eye sweeps a complete circle whose horizon is 
 from twenty to forty miles distant, embracing many a humble hamlet and mirroring lake. It is truly nature's 
 favorite window. 
 
 Within tv\o miles of the village is Revonah Lake, fed by underground springs, the highest lake in the 
 state, from which Liberty draws her matchless water supply for her model water works system. Lake Ophelia, 
 on the edge of the village, furnishes all kinds of amusements — dancing, boating, fishing, etc. Swan Lake, four 
 miles distant, affords as fine pickerel fishing as can be found anywhere; while as to game — "the woods are 
 full of "em." 
 
 Liberty also boasts of a modern sewerage system, electric lights, three fire companies and houses, opera 
 house, bank, excellent school, six churches, three newspapers, fine stores of all kinds, a resident popuLation of 
 two thousand and a summer population of ten thousand. The village abounds in some of the finest hotels and 
 boarding houses to be found outside of New York City; also, pretty residences, scores of which are owned by 
 New York people, who spend their summers here because it is their ideal of a beautiful, healthful and enjoy- 
 able resort. 
 
ilierty \ illane- - l.uokinK West 
 
Kerndale — showing Kailruad Bridge 
 
Liberty Village — Looking North 
 
Reservoir — Walnut Mountain in the Distance 
 

 Witch Rock on Walnut Mountain 
 Notice the human profile in the ruck 
 
Walnut Mountain and R(jund Top from Loomis Sanitarium 
 Elevation. 2.442 feet 
 
Loomis Saiutaimm liuiii Walnut Mountain 
 
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Lake Uphelia — View truni below the Station 
 
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 Mill Falls at Ferndale 
 
Lake Ophelia — About Five Minutes Wall< from the Village 
 
Cattail Falls — Six Miles from Liberty 
 
Liberty Falls — View lieluw Turning Mill 
 

 Mam Mreet in Winter 
 


 Private Residence of Mr. A. A. Smith in Neversink — Six Miles from Liberty 
 
\ lew trom Walnut Mountain — Looking Southeast 
 
LilH-rty from Hntel Wawcinda 
 
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I'aiiuiaiua of Liberty from Hotel Du Nord 
 
 Panorama of White Lake — Ten Miles from Liberty 
 
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