Loch Sheldrake is a
hamlet
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and
census-designated place
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(CDP) in the Town of
Fallsburg, New York
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, United States, in
Sullivan County. The
zip code for Loch Sheldrake is 12759.
The community was originally named Sheldrake Pond after a deep, glacially formed pond, which forms the center of town. It is bordered by the hamlet of
Hurleyville, the Town of
Liberty
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, the hamlet of
Hasbrouck, the hamlet of
Divine Corners, and the hamlet of
Woodbourne.
The commercial center of Loch Sheldrake is the intersection of County Road 104 and NYS
Route 52
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Australia
* Kings Highway (Australia)
* Isis Highway ( Childers to Ban Ban Springs) - Queensland State Route 52 (Wide Bay–Burnett Region)
* Gillies Highway - Queensland State Route 52 (Far North Queensl ...
, at the edge of Sheldrake Pond.
In its heyday as a
Catskills
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Borscht Belt
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resort it was home to numerous hotels, bungalow colonies and boarding houses. Some of the best known of these were the
Brown's Hotel
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History
Brown's Hotel was founded in 1837, by James and Sarah Br ...
, where comedian
Jerry Lewis
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worked; the
Evans Hotel; and the
Karmel Hotel, now
Stagedoor Manor, a renowned performing arts summer camp.
It is also the home of
Sullivan County Community College and the
Lochmor Golf Course.
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Congregation Adath Israel, the Loch Sheldrake Synagogue was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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in 1997. The Synagogue is open in the summer and for the High Holidays, under the leadership of Rabbi Dr. Rashi Shapiro.
In 2012, a year-round Hasidic
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community was founded in Loch Sheldrake, in Town and Country Estates, with a synagogue, ''mikvah
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Most forms of ritual impurity can be purifi ...
'', a boys ''cheder
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History
''Cheders'' were widely found in Europe before the end of the 18th ...
'', and a girls nursery school.
Notable institutions
* Sullivan County Community College - a community that has won four NJCAA Men's Division III Basketball Championship
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s since 1992
* Stagedoor Manor - a performing arts summer camp
Notable people
* Francis S. Currey - birthplace of World War II
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Medal of Honor recipient
*Cleanthony Early
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- played college basketball at SUNY Sullivan and Wichita State
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; former NBA
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player for the New York Knicks
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from 2014-2016
References
External links
* http://www.sullivancountyhistory.org/
* http://www.townoffallsburg.com/
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Hamlets in New York (state)
Fallsburg, New York
Census-designated places in Sullivan County, New York
Hamlets in Sullivan County, New York
Census-designated places in New York (state)