Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Fleischmanns, NY

Fleischmanns is a village in the town of Middletown in Delaware County, in the Catskill Mountains.

The village began as Griffin Corners, named for Matthew Griffin, a lawyer, storekeeper and hotel owner who helped secure its first post office and served in the State Assembly.

The Ulster and Delaware Railroad reached the village on May 23, 1870, opening this remote mountain valley to summer visitors from New York City.

In 1883 Charles Louis Fleischmann, the Hungarian-born founder of the Fleischmann yeast company, bought land by the railroad station, and his family built a summer compound of five mansions overlooking the village.

For more than two decades the community carried two names at once - Griffin Corners on the east end and Fleischmann on the west - until the village incorporated in 1913 under the single name Fleischmanns, honoring the family.

When the Fleischmanns left in 1913, they donated their park on Wagner Avenue to the village; games of the Mountain Athletic Club there reportedly drew crowds of up to 5,000.

Fleischmanns boomed in the late 19th century as a Catskills summer boarding colony, complete with grand hotels and, from 1907, a pleasure lake called Lake Switzerland created by a new dam.

As of the 2020 census, Fleischmanns had a population of 210, down from 351 in 2010.

The 2019 zombie film The Dead Don't Die, starring Bill Murray and Adam Driver, was filmed in Fleischmanns, which stood in for the fictional town of Centerville.