Throughout the 1920s, the Monticello Amusement Park -- the Coney Island of the Catskills -- was located at the northwest end of Wheeler Street (then Maiden Lane), near what is now Government Drive. In the photo below, the steeple of the Methodist church on Broadway is visible in the background on the left.

The entrance to the park was marked by three large towers with a connecting archway. It boasted a roller-coaster, merry-go-round, fun house, full-sized swimming pool, glamorous dance hall, and other attractions. The traveling circus visited town at least once a year, pitched its tents both here and down East Broadway on Thornton flats.

On August 16, 1932, the dance hall at the park caught fire and it, along with a number of other of the structures on the grounds, burned to the ground. The cause of the fire was never conclusively determined. The park closed that night, never to reopen.