Hyde Park Post Office Mural Panel 15. "1870-- William Meier (head of Hyde Park's caviar industry) pulls up an oversized sturgeon helped by Abe Atkins [an African American veteran who had fought in the Civil War as a member of Co. G of the 20th...
Photograph taken in the Chester meadows (black dirt) north of looking of the Erie Main Line, looking west towards Meadow Avenue. Micky Cassisison lived in last house on right.
Commissioners Map of Low Lands in the Towns of Chester & Blooming Grove, showing parcels and owners.
Commissioners: Oscar Durland, Willaim Pierson, Charles Caldwell
Map showing a part of the Drowned Lands, at the confluence of the Wallkill River and Quaker Creek made for Wm. Townsend from a survey made by Charles Thompson.
Surveying; Documents; Land grants; Land subdivision;
Documents that Richard Edsall, Thomas Welling and John Wisner surveyed the 100 acres of drowned lands subdivided from Lancaster Syms' share of the Patent of Wawayanda in the County of Orange to William Holly.
This Walter John Szulwach onion crate is typical of the crates used to pick, store and transport onions harvested from Chester's 'black dirt' farms from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries.
