Photograph of work gang truck parked on what may be the Monroe-Chester Road. Note: benches mounted along sides of load bed. Left bench has blanket. License plate # 852-099 NY 1930. Sign on tree: "Rippo?an ? ?"
Photograph of the recently paved Monroe-Chester Road, looking west, coming into Greycourt. Later to be known as New York State Route 17.
Note: A small section of this paving survives on both sides of the Seely Brook crossing.
On the old Monroe-Chester road. Sign on tree: "Mountain View Game Preserve" as viewed from the farmhouse looking easterly. This is nown as the Thaddeus Seely Farm, "According to [Mildred Parker] Seese, Thaddeus Seely built this house in 1752. The...
Photograph of the Mountain View Farm & Game Preserve on the old Monroe-Chester road as viewed from across the street looking westerly. Known as the Thaddeus Seely Farm, "According to [Mildred Parker] Seese, Thaddeus Seely built this house in 1752....
Photograph of Pop Steven's Garage on the old Monroe-Chester Road, looking east towards Monroe. It became NY Route 17. After the Quickway was constructed in the 1960's (Routes NY 17 & US 6 - soon to become I86) it was renamed Lehigh Ave. Pop...
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Photograph of the State Road looking west towards Chester.
Behind trees: Pop Steven's Garage, "Hudson & Essex, Stevens Service Station" on the old Monroe-Chester Road, which became Route 17. Now 2005 called Lehigh Ave. Later, Pop Steven's Garage...
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. ...
