#TBT - Hollywood Comes to Town

In August of 2019, Hollywood came to Middletown to film scenes for Netflix’s Hillbilly Elegy. Some of the Library’s very own were able to snap a few photos.

Filming took place on Vanderveer Street, between Girard Avenue and Liberty Avenue. The houses in question in the low 300 block of Vanderveer.

B.F. Harwitz Residence, c. 1910

Charles E. Greathouse Home, c. 1910

308 - 310 Vanderveer Street, March 1978

314 - 316 Vanderveer Street, 1979 June

334, 332, 330, 328 Vanderveer Street, 1979 June

317 Vanderveer Street, 1979 June

Vandeerver Street itself is named after Middletonian General Ferdinand Van Derveer. Gen. Van Derveer served in both the Civil War and the Mexican American War, serving as a Brigadier General.

Brig. Gen. Vanderveer, c. 1865

General Ferdinand Van Derveer Memorial, c. 1994

General Ferdinand VanDerveer, c. 1870