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Country Dream Restaurant | 258 Pine Island Turnpike, Warwick, NY (in the hamlet of Edenville)
Weekdays 6AM-3PM for breakfast and lunch; Weekends 6AM-4PM | Thu-Fri-Sat for dinner 5:00-9PM
Tel: 845-986-6600 | Read about the history below! | Map & Directions |
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The restaurant contains artifacts, photographs and wood from earlier days in Edenville, NY. Thu – dinner: roast turkey and pork; Fri – fish and meatloaf; Sat – roast beef and baked ham. Catering available for any occasion for 60 people or less. |
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Country Dream Restaurant History |
The Country Dream building was founded around 1850 and its first owner was Wheeler Roe, and uncle of Fred Garvey and one-time president of the First National Bank of Warwick. It then passed down to Silas Young, LeGrande Mead, and a Dr. Holly and became Mead & Young.
Mr. Young was a venerable resident and a noted mineralogist known in this country and abroad. His collection can be seen in the New York State Educational Building in Albany. He studied and followed mineralogy – first for pleasure and then for profit – and made many valuable trades and exchanges of his spinets for western and foreign specimens. Mr. Young was the grandfather of Melvin G. Vernon, Warwick lawyer and Ralph Y. Vernon, Middletown druggist.
Later the business was sold to the Rev. W. R. Edwards, better known to townsmen as Hominie Edwards, who toiled at the store six days a week and on the Sabbath was a faithful worker in the Sunday School and Church on the hill. He was identified by his tall white silk hat.
In this period there were two important wagon-making factories in Edenville. They were operated by Benjamin Colwell and Wallace J. Dusinberre who boasted making buggies, wagons and sleighs of the highest grade.
In 1873 the country store was purchased by James W. Houston, uncle of Miss Houston, who supplied much of the historical data. George S. Everett, father of Seely Everett, took over the store in 1883 and did a thriving business due to the Mount Adam Granite Company which he supplied with a two-horse wagon load of merchandise twice a week. The company employed about 180 men, some of whom lived in the village and others in the three large boarding houses on the premises.
This mining concern was awardewd a contract to supply the City of Brookly with one million paving blocks of granite, a big order in those days since all the labor had to be done without the aid of modern machinery. Seeley Everett says his father often told the story of seeing the Hudson River from the mountain top before the scene was changed by building cropping up and by the overgrowth of foliage.
The business became the property of Marsh and Demaree in 1897, but the partnership lasted only a year. Mr. Demaree sold out to Charles Sargeant and the country store became known as Marsh and Sargeant. Charles Sargeant lived in Middletown through the 1950's. Seely S. Everett acquired the store on October 21, 1912 and operated it for its longest term until it was next bought bu the Henderson Brothers in 1968, who ran it for two years when Kenneth Henderson bought out his brother's share of the business. Kenneth sold vegetables out of the store for 23 years, remarrying after the passing of his first wife. Together, Mr. and Mrs. Henderson established the Country Dream Restaurant, which is in its third decade of operation.
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