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Village of Sharon Springs, NY New York Times July 23, 2001 "A Faded Resort Lumbers to Life" New York Times August 26, 2000 "Fragile Recovery for Village of Spas" "Shtetl to Sharon" How the Brustmans came from Russia to New York City and Sharon Springs New York Times June 5, 2008 "Like the Water, Grand Plans Buoy Spirits at a Vacation Spot From a Bygone Era" Municipalities and communities of Schoharie County, New York, United States Cobleskill Esperance Middleburgh Richmondville Schoharie Sharon Springs Categories: Villages in New York - Spa suburbs in New York - Populated places in Schoharie County, New York Sharon Springs, New York Sharon Springs, New York Sharon Springs, New York 2016 424.jpg Sharon Springs, New York is positioned in New York Sharon Springs, New York - Sharon Springs, New York Sharon Springs is a village in Schoharie County, New York, United States. Its name derives from the hometown of the first Colonial settlers, Sharon, Connecticut, and the meaningful springs in the village. Sharon Springs, Kansas likewise was settled by former inhabitants of this Upstate New York village. More knowledge is in the book, "Sharon and Sharon Springs," written by village historian Nancy Di - Pace Pfau and presented in 2015 by Arcadia Publishing in its Images of American series. The Village of Sharon Springs sits in the northwest part of the Town of Sharon, New York, approximately 50 miles (80 km) west of Albany, the state capital. Surrounded by rolling hills and nestled in a winding valley, the tidy village is near some of New York State's most prominent attractions. Howe Caverns is 15 miles (24 km) to the south while The Mohawk River and Erie Canal are only 10 miles (16 km) to the north. Sharon Springs, recognized by both the National Register of Historic Places as well as New York State's Register of Historic Places as a historic spa village, boasts some attractions of her own. Many of its historic spa-related structures were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994 as the Sharon Springs Historic District. In addition to the compilation of fully and partially restored 19th century structures and ruins which can be accessed year-round, Sharon Springs also plays host to these cyclic affairs: the Garden Party festival in May, the Father's Day Tractor & Antique Power Show in June, the summer concert series every Wednesday evening in July and August, the Wee Wheels Tiny Car Show in August, the Harvest Festival in September, and the Victorian Festival in December. Since the middle-to-late 1980s, Sharon Springs has attained increased small-town consideration and eminence in Schoharie County. As company doers from outside the region started businesses and restored its structures, county-wide and New York City media have tracked its progress. 6 New York State Grants Prior to being claimed and settled by Great Britain as part of its Province of New York, Sharon Springs was incessanted by the indigenous Iroquois populace for its healing waters. Sharon Springs, then known as the town of New Dorlach, was settled around 1780. During the American Revolution, the Town of Sharon, New York saw limited fighting. After burning down 12 homes in a small Canajoharie River settlement and claiming victory in the Battle of Currytown on July 9, approximately 300 British and Iroquois troops commanded by John Doxtader encamped later that day at the Sharon Springs Swamp, near the present-day intersection of Route 20 and County Road 34. During and after the Revolution, Sharon Springs was part of the Town of Schoharie in Tryon County. In 1784, Tryon County was retitled Montgomery County, New York to honor General Richard Montgomery, an American war hero who gave his life trying to capture the town/city of Quebec. In 1791, Otsego County, New York broke off from Montgomery County, and in 1795, Schoharie County, New York was formed from adjoining parts of Otsego and Albany Counties. The Town of Sharon was formed shortly after in 1797, and Sharon Springs set itself apart from the Town of Sharon in 1871 by incorporating as a village. Thanks to its sulfur, magnesium, and chalybeate mineral springs, Sharon Springs interval into a bustling spa amid the 19th century. At the peak of its popularity, Sharon Springs hosted 10,000 visitors each summer, including members of the Vanderbilt family and Oscar Wilde (who gave a lecture at the now-demolished Pavilion Hotel on 11 August 1882). Direct ferry-to-stagecoach lines connected New York City to Sharon Springs, followed by rail lines connecting the Village to New York City and Boston via Albany. The most famous of the springs in the Village, then as now, was the so-called Gardner Spring, which was owned by the owner of the Pavilion Hotel. As reported in the New York Times on 30 August 1875, "So prodigious is the amount of sulfur-gas in the Gardner Spring that the waters of this creek are rendered as white as milk, and the stones are veiled with a thick deposit. According to an article presented in The New York Times (26 August 2000), Sharon Springs lost its fashionable Social Register set to the horse-racing attractions of Saratoga Springs. Wealthy Jewish families of German origin, who were unwelcome at Saratoga due to the prevailing civil bias of the time, filled the void and "made Sharon Springs a refuge of their own." Other factors that exacerbated the village's early 20th century diminish were Prohibition (which reduced the need for the small-town hop harvest) and the opening of the New York State Thruway (which routed traffic away from the area). Most American hops were grown in a belt stretching from Madison to Schoharie Counties in upstate New York. As the cited New York Times article went on to explain, "After World War II, Sharon Springs got a second wind from the West German government, which paid medical care reparations to Holocaust survivors, holding that therapeutic spa vacations were a legitimate part of the medical package." The 1970s through the 1990s saw the succession of secular Jewish tourists to Sharon Springs by Hasidim and ultra-Orthodox Jewish visitors, fed in part by a alongside displacement in the close-by Borsht Belt. Their time in Sharon Springs is documented in "The Short Season of Sharon Springs," presented by Cornell University Press in 1980. A host of Hasidim-owned and incessanted hotels flourished in the village, bridging Sharon Springs' shining past as a world-class resort for the rich and famous and its recent ascent as a county-wide travel and weekend destination. A concurrent migration of weekend hunters and union trade workers discovering non-urban weekending from the Downstate New York City suburbs began coming to Sharon Springs and Schoharie County in the 1970s. Sharon Springs, after drifting into a rundown state by the late 1980s, has appreciateed a resurgence in the last 15 years. The New York Times cites the revival to "the uninterruped supply of well-to-do, educated second-homers from New York City (3.5 hours away) and Columbia County (2 hours away)... And the exponential expansion of a new travel phenomenon, tradition tourism: the quest for things historic by well-heeled tourists." Low real estate prices, early renovations and prosperous start-ups, positive press including back to back 'Escapes' New York Times articles in 2000, and then post-911 flight from New York City all contributed to an influx of entrepreneurs, artisans and artists, including single-sex couples and other minorities. The restoration of The American Hotel on Main Street was among the first instead of projects in Sharon Springs' rebirth. Prior to The American Hotel, the former inhabitants of New York City directed a bakery for two years, The Rockville Cafe, renting the space from Robert and Kathleen Lehnert who began renovating the dilapidated property they purchased in 1986. One of the Giacomo/Belloise team's fully instead of collaborations is the Klinkhart Homestead, the 1859 Italianate family home of a former proprietor of the Roseboro and prominent Sharon Springs citizen, restored in the late 1990s. The 177 structures in the village appear on the National Register of Historic Places as a mineral resort. The village also won a grant from the New York State Council for the Humanities to establish a self-guided walking tour through Sharon Springs in 1997. It was one of the first prosperous businesses in the early years of Sharon Springs' resurgence, and had remained in the Clausen family (fifth generation) until 2009. Two other historic Sharon Springs inns fully restored to their initial state include the Edwardian Edgefield at 153 Washington Street and the Victorian New York House B&B, at 110 Center Street. Tom Jessen started and directed Foxglove Press, a fine letterpress print shop, in Sharon Springs from 2006 2010, before relocating his operations to Maine. During the last 10 years, Sharon Springs has also figured prominently in episodes of The Food Network's $40 A Day and Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels series. A postcard of Sharon Springs is featured in the opening intro of the movie National Lampoons Vacation. (SSI) primarily based in New York City purchased the historic Adler, Columbia, and Washington hotels with the goal of turning Sharon Springs back into a resort destination. The plans have since changed from restoration of the existing historic hotels into "a possible $350 million plan to erect two 11-story hotels including one with a helipad a golf course, condominiums and a spa with a bathhouse and a day care center." In late June 2013, SSI suggested plans were back on track although approval by the Sharon Springs council would still be required. Per SSI partner Aiden - Han and their attorney and surveyor Joanne Crum brought details of the long-proposed SSI Imperial Baths universal to the Sharon Springs Joint Planning Board on June 26.https://timesjournalonline.com/details.asp?id=83563 A formal application for the proposed work, which is concentrated solely on the Spa with no mention of the Adler, has not been presented. In May 2015 the often discussed evolution plans of Sharon Springs Inc. (owned solely now by Kyu Sung 'Sam' Cho) resurfaced with new renderings and plan of action. A presentation to the town's Joint Planning Board cited the razing of the collapsed Lower Baths and Laundry and Medical Buildings which were part of the Imperial Baths complex. On January 15, 2008 it was announced that under New York State's $100 million Restore NY program, $500,000 was being allocated to Sharon Springs. On September 2, 2009 Restore New York / Empire State Development's Communities Initiative - Round 3 - announced they were granting $1,000,000 for The Imperial Spa by Sharon Springs Inc. The universal funding is anticipated to problematic 100 new jobs. Further the universal aims to re-establish Sharon Springs as a spa destination. Sharon Springs is positioned on New York State Route 10 (Main Street) immediately north of US Route 20. "Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills," by David Stradling Glenn Collins, "Fragile Recovery for Village of Spas," The New York Times, 30 August 2000. Glenn Collins, "Fragile Recovery for Village of Spas," The New York Times, 30 August 2000.