Donna Matthews, left, with her childhood friend Jackie Latocke, (now Smith). During this time period, many if not most local children learned to swim in this pool. William Matthews' scrapbook has this description of the pool: "In 1939, a cement...
William Matthews' describes this photograph in his scrapbook: "Here are 109 of the 1036 individuals who were welcomed at summer camps and Bungalow Hill over a three month period. Ten minutes before this picture was taken, these girls were romping...
Verso identifies Ellenor Matthews with her children Donna and Hank in the foreground, and Woody Klose on the lifeguard stand. "In the year 1939 a cement swimming pool took the place of the meadow pond where water supply was never sure. From early...
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.
Tintype found by Ralph Colegrove of V. Paulis Associates in the Smith Farmhouse on Black Meadow Road prior to its demolition in May, 2000 to make way for Kohl’s warehouse in the Chester Industrial Park. Note: Kohl’s warehouse was not...
Erie R.R. Plan Showing Proposed Layout of Chester Station
Grounds, Chester, N.Y. for the new station which was actually
constructed in 1915, differently than proposed. The proposed
railroad changes are delineated in red. Proposed change of the...
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. ...
