Called variously the Gardener's Cottage or Gardener's Lodge, this building served as the gatehouse to the Donaldson estate, Blithewood. Though A.J. Davis is often credited as the architect, an 1845 article in an agricultural publication entitled...
Hyde Park Post Office Mural Panel 8. "Dr. Samuel Bard gives first aid to a negro who has been burnt while his son William holds the lantern and his son-in-law John McVickar supports the wounded man. The latter was rector of St. James Church, the...
Bridgett Jones gives one hundred and twenty pound mortgage to Abijah Yelverton, secured by Cromline Tract Lot three. Abijah Yelverrton satisfied this obligation in 1776.
Clippings; Church dedications; Church schools; Churches; Graves; Tombs & sepulchral monuments; Slave quarters; Slavery; Pews; Altars; Auditoriums; Architectural elements
This article, clipped from the Orange County Post gives a abbreviated history of the Blooming Grove Congregation Church, from its begins in the eighteenth century. Architectural features, including acoustics, slave gallery, pews, modifications are...
A paper written by Franklin D. Roosevelt while a sophomore at Harvard University. The paper is titled "The Roosevelt Family in New Amsterdam before the Revolution." Within it he gives a history of his ancestors.
Women; Health; Food; Water; Correspondence; Religion; Religious education; Religious services; Methodist churches;
Leah will be leaving NY and is making plans to arrive in Newburgh. She mentions that she has had little benefit from bathing and gives details of a sermon she has just heard. She writes of the kindness Maria and Jonathan have shown her.
Little Tommy, Leah's son, is very ill and is being treated by a Dr. The Dr. thinks that Tommy is suffering from a derangement of the bile & bowels and treats him with calomel. Leah closes by asking for strength from above.
Horses; Carriages & coaches; Utility poles; Streets; Bodies of water; Bays (Bodies of water);
Color postcars showing the Bight in Grandview, NY. A bight is defined as "a bend in a coast forming an open bay" or " a bay formed by such a bend" (Mirriam Websters' Online Dictionary 2007) This postcard was postmarked May 21, 1909, it...
