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 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. ...
Clippings; Church dedications; Church schools; Churches; Graves; Tombs & sepulchral monuments; Slave quarters; Slavery; Pews; Altars; Auditoriums; Architectural elements
This article, clipped from the Orange County Post gives a abbreviated history of the Blooming Grove Congregation Church, from its begins in the eighteenth century. Architectural features, including acoustics, slave gallery, pews, modifications are...
Sheet metal fold-over tab type pin in the shape of a waving flag with a Red Cross insignia. This example was found clipped onto W.W. II scrapbook page near "Red Cross First Aid class in Chester" clipping.
Clippings; History; Historical societies; Historians; Land grants; Taverns (Inns);
Newspaper clipping reporting on a Historical Society of Middletown and Wallkill Precinct meeting featuring Frank Durland’s paper on the importance of Chester in history. Apparently, this was clipped from Dr. Wesley Wait's copy of the newspaper.
Photographs; Clippings; Stables; City & town life;
Two photographs, clipped from a newspaper. The top photograph is of the livery stable on Orange Avenue, before 1900. The text under the photograph reads: This livery stable stood on Orange Avenue, Suffern, next to the Eureka House and was run by...
This is a small cross-gabled home with a small, covered entry porch. There is a gable decoration and bargeboard on the home. There is a transom window above the front door. Most of the clapboard siding is horizontal, but there are three vertical...
