Map of the Village of East Chester
Filed Oct 11, 1841
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After the Erie Railroad came throught this section was know as "Chester at the Depot" for a time. Now known as Downtown Chester. Most of the depot grounds became...
This is the only known photograph of the 1915 Chester Erie Station agent’s office taken while the station was in operation. It was taken in October, 1922 for use in the Erie Magazine. L-r: Robert Marvin, Station Master & John I. Edwards.
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Note milk cans at station, kerosene street lamps, no car tracks in snow, lack of snow removal, no trees along tracks, telegraph & telephone wires only - no electric. This photograph was probably taken from the RR Signal Tower.
Photograph of Charles & Marie Barrell, Sugar Loaf, NY in front of Walling's residence on King's Hwy in Sugar Loaf in a simple one horse, sprung carriage.
Photograph of Don Barrell, smartly dress, in a doorway with a basket eggs. Tthe occasion of which is not known.
Don lived and worked on the Bairdlea Farm in Sugar Loaf, New York.
Photograph of Charles and Marie Barrell in simple one horse, sprung carriage, on lawn in front of Segal home off Hen Lane, Sugar Loaf.
Note: The name of Hen Lane was changed to Well Sweep Lane sometime in the mid-twentieth century.
Photograph of the Holbert Farm, Sugar Loaf as seen from Mine Hill looking north-north-west.
Note: Buildings on the right foreground are on Hen Lane, now known as Well Sweep Lane.
The Chester Horse Thief Detective Society poster putting thieves on notice that they will be pursued, should they dare steal a horse or car in Chester.
Photograph of Brooks Carriage & Sleigh Factory, located in Downtown Chester on Main Street at Center Street. With the advent of the automobile, it became Brook's Garage. Currently, 2006, this building is occupied by Bodle’s Opera House.
Photograph of young Nan Wilkin on Main Street in downtown Chester, with old Chester National Bank building in the background.
She married Vince Gallo and operated Gallo's Cozy Corner Restaurant in West Chester for 26 years until her retirement in...
Photograph looking south at the Durland General Store at Main Street and Academy Avenue, uptown Chester, before the columns were removed and the front of the building enclosed. The small building to right of Durland's Store was Razey's Photography...
Photograph of the house across from Littell's Store & Post Office in Greycourt. Note: L&HRR tracks ran behind house - signal visible just to the left of house.
James S. (Budd) Murray in Horse Racing attire. Photograph believed taken at the Delafield Brook Farm race, November 7, 1914. Budd was superintendent of Brook Farm.
