The tannery in Fremont Center, built by D.P. Buckley & Son of Liberty when they were tanners, was a bigger establishment than the one at Mileses. Benjamin P. Buckley of this firm was supervisor of Liberty when the settlers in Fremont wanted to become a new town and opposed its creation.

The lands of Fremont, being the last in the county to be settled, remained the favorite resort of hunters. The noted hunters of Rockland, who wrote of their hunting expeditions, found Fremont a wilderness where they could find deer, bear, panther, and wolves. Even elk inhabited Fremont long after it could no longer be found in other parts of Sullivan County.

The residents of Long Eddy had visions of the place becoming a place of considerable importance to rank with Binghamton, Elmira, and other points along the Erie. Preparatory to this event, D.D. McKoon and F.G. Barnes secured a charter from the state legislature incorporating the place as Douglas City. Thus came into existence the only city of which Sullivan County could ever boast. If Douglas City even had a mayor, his name has not been found.

When the incorporated city of Douglas City was dissolved, the records were placed in the office of the town clerk of Fremont for safe keeping, but were authorized to be burned. Frank Buzy, then a boy, was curious about the old book, consigned to the fire over which he had been placed in charge. He took it home and thus, was saved whatever records remain of the only city Sullivan County history has known.

Source:
Frank V. Schwarz, Historian
Lumberland: A Gem with Many Facets
Bicentennial Pamphlet, 1998