Church schools; Churches; Clippings;Cycling; Farm life; Floods; Homicides; War;
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.
Forts & fortifications; Group portraits; Military personnel; Panoramic photographs; Soldiers
Sixteenth Recruit Troop, Fort Ethan Allen, Vt. Photo by McAllister, Burlington, Vt. Men from Chester are believed to be among the recruits. Fort Ethan Allen was a U.S. army installation in Vermont, named for American Revolutionary War figure...
A clipping reporting on the 1907 Reunion of 124th Regiment Association and dedication of the Bradley Monument: "The Standard Bearer" a memorial to the service dead of the famous Orange County Civil War unit, the "Orange Blossoms."
These proceedings to determine boundaries of the Wawayanda and Cheesecocks Patents held in 1785 in the Yelverton Barn were transcribed from the records of the County Clerk's office in Goshen.
Frank B. Perry and Sons of Newton, Mass. made the "Radio Blinker Signal Set," patented in 1917.
Made under contract for the U.S. Army Air Service, presumedly preparing soldiers for service in World War I.
The trainee operated the key set on top...
Clippings; History; Historical societies; Historians; Land grants; Taverns (Inns);
Newspaper clipping reporting on a Historical Society of Middletown and Wallkill Precinct meeting featuring Frank Durland’s paper on the importance of Chester in history. Apparently, this was clipped from Dr. Wesley Wait's copy of the newspaper.
