G.L. Van Duzer's scale charges to Conklin & Roe for April, 1906, probably to document deliveries made by Conklin & Roe's Lumber Yard to a customer in or near Sugar Loaf. Van Duzer's store was in Sugar Loaf, NY. Conklin & Roe's Lumber Yard was in...
J. Durland & Son statement for supplies sold to Conklin & Roe Lumber Yard, which was located downtown across from the Erie Depot. The Durland Store was located in Uptown Chester at the corner of Main Street & Academy Avenue, then called Durland's...
Land for the Chester Academy given by Charles Durland, ancestor of Maude Durland whose daughter was Althea Maude Mapes (Gaunt). Photo given to J.D. Mapes by D.Y. Durland May 4, 1924.
Photograph of St. Paul's Episcopal Church on Main Street at Maple Avenue before Guild Room addition was built onto the rear of the church. The house to right of church: W.W. Davis purchased from Geo. M. Roe about 1906
The Chester Academy was built in 1846, at a cost of $10,000. It was a frame building 50 by 75 feet standing at the corner of Academy Avenue and the Goshen Road, now, 2006, called Brookside Ave. (Route 17M). THis photograph was taken before the 25...
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. ...
Chester High School postcard. The school was located on Oakland Ave., built in 1906 after the fire that consumed the 1842 Chester Academy.
This building was later destroyed by fire in 1948, when owned Chester Cable Corp.
Clippings; Water supply; Lakes & ponds; Actions & defenses; Lawyers;
This article reports on a lawsuit concerning the conflict between the Village of Chester's use and control of Walton Lake as its water supply and the surrounding property owners.
