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. ...
Public utility companies; Waterworks; Administrative agencies;
Walton Lake Water Rules and Regulations for the Chester water system which opened 1892, after much of downtown Chester was destroyed in the fire of 1876.
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; Water supply; Lakes & ponds; Actions & defenses; Lawyers;
This article reports on a lawsuit concerning the conflict between the Village of Chester's use and control of Walton Lake as its water supply and the surrounding property owners.
A newspaper article reporting a slave ship captured along the coast of Cuba in 1857. The captives, aged from ten to eighteen years, described as unfortunate creatures, taken from a place called Kabinda, on the coast of Africa. Of the 500 taken,...
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.
