At this site, the first known free open-air motion picture presentations began on Thursday, June 7, 1917, sponsored by the Schoharie Board of Trade, and continued each summer until September 1930. It was also the site of the first ever free open-air talking motion picture presentations, which began on Thursday, June 11, 1931, also sponsored by the Schoharie Board of Trade, and continued each summer until September 1942.