Photograph of dwelling located on the corner of High Street & Hambletonian Avenue, Chester, NY. William Rysdyk, of Hambletonian fame, sold the residence to Dr. C. P. Smith, Sr., who later sold it to Geo. M. Roe, great uncle of Arno Beiling who...
Photograph of the Hambletonian Monument located on Hambletonian Ave., at intersection with Oakland Avenue.
“Hambletonian, "The Father of Harness Racers" owned by entrepreneur Wm Rysdyck. Rysdyck's horses "Long Island Black Hawk" and "New York...
Photo post card of the 1846 Chester Academy was located at the western end of Academy Avenue, where the CVS Drug is currently (2006) located. The land for the Chester Academy given by Charles Durland, ancestor of Maude Durland whose daughter was...
Land for the Chester Academy given by Charles Durland, ancestor of Maude Durland whose daughter was Althea Maude Mapes (Gaunt). Photo given to J.D. Mapes by D.Y. Durland May 4, 1924.
World famous Brook Farm was owned by Richard Delafield in the early twentieth century. This was home to Mr. Delafield's trotters, and a track where he hosted trotting races. Next to the former William Rysdyk farm where Hambletonian, progenitor of...
Post card advertising the Pullmanette Davenport sold by Chas. J. Stones Furniture Co. of Newburgh, New York.
Sent to Mrs. Geo. H. Mapes of Chester, N. Y.
Post card: High Street, Chester, N. Y. on the corner of High Street & Hambletonian Avenue looking north.
House pictured after Geo. Roe bought it.
William Rysdyk sold it to Dr. C. P. Smith, Sr., who later sold it to Geo. M. Roe, great uncle of...
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.
Anthony Yelverton Injunction against Peter VanDerhoof and Sally his wife, Ichabod Spencer and Catherine his wife, John Mapes and Garrit Rysdick and Catherine his wife over the property that he bought from a "Fieri Facias" proceeding 1824-06-22.
