Taken in February of 1946, this view of the Maple Allee to Ward Manor shows slender young trees. Today many of the sugar maples have died, and the college has planted a second layer of oak trees to form a double allee.
Four men stand posed around the Bard College Fire Department Engine #2: one at the passenger door, one at the driver side door, and two at the front bumper. The truck contained a 1 ton, 400 gallon water tank and 150 feet of hose. The stone building...
Photograph of Pop Steven's Garage on the old Monroe-Chester Road, looking east towards Monroe. It became NY Route 17. After the Quickway was constructed in the 1960's (Routes NY 17 & US 6 - soon to become I86) it was renamed Lehigh Ave. Pop...
Photographs; Billboards; Automobile service stations; Roads;
Photograph of the State Road looking west towards Chester.
Behind trees: Pop Steven's Garage, "Hudson & Essex, Stevens Service Station" on the old Monroe-Chester Road, which became Route 17. Now 2005 called Lehigh Ave. Later, Pop Steven's Garage...
This letter to the editor, clipped from the Chester Independent Republican newspaper, discusses two proposed routes for the new state road connecting Chester and Monroe. The swamp road, as "Farmer's Boy" calls it, was the one that was built. ...
Post card of the Pennsylvania Turnpike running across Pennsylvania. Before World War II, the newly opened Pennsylvania Turnpike was a destination in itself.
Warrant issued by the Commisioners of Highways mandating the property owners along a section of the roadway formerly known in colonial times as the "King's Highway" and now, in 2006, called Route 94 to mantain this road between Craigville and Jesse...
Newspaper clipping relates an early history of the fresh milk dairy industry. Believe written by Edward Harold Mott, famed author of “Between the Ocean and the Lakes; The Story of Erie.”
