​I found this information from other hunters:

• Skeetersburg Located in the NW corner of the Town, per Child. Patricia Benton Parks notes that Skeetersburg Road was renamed in the 1970s to Golub Hill Road.

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Information I have found myself:

• The School was formerly taught by Walter Lewis, and was across the road from the house of the Mills sisters, who also housed the Post Office.  The school has been remodeled.  This area was known as "Egypt" (see that location for more).  "Dahlia" also seems to have been the name of a locality, viz. Barber's transcription of the records of the Free Methodist Church of Ferndale.

• David Rowland of Neversink was united in wedlock to Aviar, a daughter of Isaiah Whipple. Rowland had to come a long way through the woods to win a bride, and if he performed the journey to or from her father's residence in the night, as has been the custom before and since, he must have encountered as many perils as ever did belted and plumed knight in quest of similar game. We have no doubt the prize was worth the trouble it cost to win it; for she was of that class from which have graduated so many excellent wives and mothers. She was a school-mistress, and was not only the first bride, but the first teacher of a school in Liberty. She commenced her school about the year 1797, in a little bark-roofed shanty, near the house since occupied by Amos Shaw. She had not far from ten pupils - the only book used was Webster's spelling-book, and she received one dollar per week, and boarded herself - wages that certainly do not compare favorably with what is paid female teachers at the present day. Arithmetic, writing, etc., were not taught in the schools there for several subsequent years. Judge Joseph Grant married a sister of this Miss Whipple. She was his first wife. After her death he married the widow of Jehu Fish, who was a daughter of Robert Young.

• The north-west part of the town is but thinly settled and is comparatively a wilderness, though it boasts oi a small settlement which rejoices in the euphonious name of “Skeetersburg.”Our informant speaks of this section thus facetiously:

  • “The north-western portion of the town of Liberty is commonly known as Egypt, an appellation, the origin of which is accounted for as follows: -Some thirty years ago, one Elias Hall, an early settler, had a barn raising, with the necessary accompaniment, a ‘Bee.’ As night came on the laborers ceased from their work and talked of betaking themselves to their respective homes; but the voice of the majority was in favor of sleeping where they were, as there was danger of straying -the night being pronounced to be as ‘black as Egypt.’ Those who officiated at the christening still stoutly maintained that ‘sich a dark night war never heerd tell on in these parts,’ yet there are not wanting those who assert that there was nothing unusual touching the darkness of the night, but insinuate that there is reason for believing the alleged natural phenomenon to have been augmented, if not created, by the repeated attentions paid to a certain stone jar which figured prominently on the occasion. Be that as it may, this modern Egypt would appear to be not entirely without its plague, a hollow in the upper part bearing the rather suggestive title of ‘Skeetersburg.’

  • “Indignation meetings have been held, with a change of name for their object, but without success. ‘Pleasant Valley,’ ‘Dingle Daisy,’ and other attractive cognomens have been urged in vain upon the natives, who, true to their first love, still cling tenaciously to their beloved ‘Skeetersburg.’”