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. ...
Newspaper clipping relates an early history of the fresh milk dairy industry. Believe written by Edward Harold Mott, famed author of “Between the Ocean and the Lakes; The Story of Erie.”
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.
This slide is of a hand-drawn illustration of the Tomkins Cove Lime Company. The cliffs as well as the industrial buildings are seen. Many ships are seen on the river.
This is a view through bare trees looking towards the Hudson River. The industrial buildings and smokestacks of the Lovett plant are seen in the distance on the river's near shore.
