Commissioners Map of Low Lands in the Towns of Chester & Blooming Grove, showing parcels and owners.
Commissioners: Oscar Durland, Willaim Pierson, Charles Caldwell
Edmond Butler's Brook Farm was located in Chester, N.Y. and was well renowned for their award winning Jersey cattle. Photographed, left to right: John A. Perree, Jersey; Lieutenant H. A. Strohmeyer, New Jersey; Edmond Butler, New York; Bartley A....
Chester produce was often sold in New York City by wholesalers for local farmers on a commission basis. This statement on an illustrated billhead documents one such transaction.
This butter waybill is one example of the items, both routine and unique that nineteenth century rural farmers relied on the railroads to deliver. Although Jesse Woodhull's farm was about halfway between the Craigville and Oxford depots, in the...
This Sled Shoes waybill is one example of the items, both routine and unique that nineteenth century rural farmers relied on the railroads to deliver. >Although Jesse Woodhull's farm was about halfway between the Craigville and Oxford depots, in...
This waybill for this 2200 pound Bull is one example of the items, both routine and unique that nineteenth century rural farmers relied on the railroads to deliver. Although Jesse Woodhull's farm was about halfway between the Craigville and Oxford...
This Screenings receipt, is one example of the items, both routine and unique that nineteenth century rural farmers relied on the railroads to deliver. Although Jesse Woodhull's farm was about halfway between the Craigville and Oxford depots, in...
This Guano waybill, is one example of the items, both routine and unique that nineteenth century rural farmers relied on the railroads to deliver. Although Jesse Woodhull's farm was about halfway between the Craigville and Oxford depots, in the...
Marvin & Thorn meal & bran illustrated invoice to Jesse Woodhull. Given the quanities bought by Woodhull, he probably fed this material to his farm animals. Bran, the pieces of grain husk separated from flour after milling. Meal, the edible part...
World famous Brook Farm was owned by Richard Delafield in the early twentieth century. This was home to Mr. Delafield's trotters, and a track where he hosted trotting races. Next to the former William Rysdyk farm where Hambletonian, progenitor of...
Framed photographic print of Jeff McGregor (3 yr. old), 2:21 1/4, by Jeffrey, dam Zanonia by Robert McGregor Owned by W.A. Lawrence, Chester, N.Y.
Driver: Bud Murray
Polling the Craigville members of the Orange County Milk Producers' Association on acceptance of a milk price setting plan with the New York Milk Dealers' Association.
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Newspaper clipping with stories of the first one hundred years of the Chester Presbyterian Church and its ministers. Clipping also includes other short unrelated articles of local interest.
