Members of the St. Stephen's College graduating class of 1896 pose in traditional cap and gown around St. Margaret's Well, built in memory of Margaret Bard. The St. Stephen's College Messenger covered Commencement exercises, reporting that the...
Panel 7 of Rhinebeck Post Office Mural. From "Murals in the Rhinebeck Post Office." "Sunday morning before Dutch Reformed Church service. This building is drawn from the still standing clapboard Durch Reformed Church at Tivoli. Two walls of the...
"Sunday morning before Dutch Reformed Church service. This building is drawn from the still standing clapboard Durch Reformed Church at Tivoli. Two walls of the present structure (built by John Coddington in 1809) are made of contributed stone, tow...
Newspaper article reporting the discovery of a mastadon or mammoth in the Chester Black Dirt. (This article was electronically clipped from our complete issue of the United States Gazette)
This indenture documents the sale by Thomas Morris, US Marshall of property per decree against Peter Townsend, Isaac Townsend and John Springstead in favor of Anthony Yelverton.
"Fieri Facias" is Latin for "that you cause to be done." This is a...
Deed, dated May 19th, 1755, documenting the sale of 42 3/4 acres of one James Ensign to John Yelverton for the sum of 97 pounds and 4 shillings. This is most of the acreage on which the village of Chester developed.
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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.
Notice dated Nov. 12th. 1886 of pay car attached to Train No. 9 leaving from Middletown Tuesday Nov. 16 to Walton, New York to pay station and track workers.
Undated sketch of Chester village lots by surveyor, Fred J. Knight, (Scale of 18 Chains to 1 inch). Parcels labeled: Cartter & Vail, Charles Smith, Isaac Banker, Mansion House, Milton Hulse, S. J. Banker. Garden and Main Streets noted.
A 1769 survey map by [?] Metcalfe of land, for Thomas Moore and John Osborn in Evans Patent (which was early divided into smaller patents), Chesecocks and Wayayanda Patents, Orange County, New York. There are boundaries marked in red and yellow,...
