Photograph looking south at the Durland General Store at Main Street and Academy Avenue, uptown Chester, before the columns were removed and the front of the building enclosed. The small building to right of Durland's Store was Razey's Photography...
Winter at Durland's Square. Photograph of Durland's Department Store at corner of Main Street and Academy Avenue. Durland residence, Yelverton Inn, seen behind the store.
Photograph of Main Street at Academy Avenue, looking north.
On the left: Owen's Store, Murray's Garage, Durland's Store, Durland Residence (Yelverton Inn). On the right: Brown's Eats.
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)
Yelverton Indenture (mortgage) - June 16, 1778. Abijah Yelverton, Innholder, mortgage to Peter Townsend, for a part of the Cromline Tract of 42 acres. This was acknowledged before Judge Marvin in Chester. This 42 acres comprised most of what later...
Indenture, dated July 16th, 1751, documenting the sale of 200 acres of the Crommelin Tract of the Wawayanda Patent by John Beers to one James Ensign for the sum of 150 pounds current money. This is part of the acreage on which the town and village...
It is interesting to note that this land transaction document between John Carman and John Yelverton for 85 acres of land was not signed by John Yelverton. He died within a year of this indenture and perhaps that explains why it bears the...
