This letter from Dr. John Bard to his teenaged grandson William encourages him to save and preserve printed publications on political topics of the day. His identity as a Loyalist can be inferred by the language that he uses in discussing two...
This is a manuscript letter from Robert Fulton to an associate of the Livingston family regarding an ongoing financial dispute between himself and member(s) of the Livingston family.
The December 7, 1933 issue of the Lyre Tree reported a strong, though not undefeated soccer season for the boys at St. Stephen's: "At the opening of the season, Coach Leeke, in an informal talk to his squad of twenty-five men stressed three...
"A farmer living on the King's Highway stops plowing to chat with the new weekly Post Rider on his way from New York to Albany. Rhinebeck has always been one of the most important stops first on the Indian Trail to Fort Orange (Albany). Later the...
Panel 2: 1716. From "Murals in the Rhinebeck Post Office:" "Sunday before the new First Church, union of Calvinists and Lutherans, at Wey's Crossing, center of the Palatine colony. In 1729 the Lutherans moved to the site of the present Stone...
Sixth Panel over Window in Rhinebeck Post Office. From "Murals in the Rhinebeck Post Office:" "Some outstanding Rhinebeck buildings--Foreground from left to right:--The School, designed and built in 1869 by Peter M. Fulton, burned in 1939; The...
From "Murals in the Rhinebeck Post Office": Panel 3: "1728. Henry Beekman, 2nd, now forty and a Colonel, receives the midsummer's quit rent on his lawn, while four-year old daughter Margaret looks on. The new Rhinebeck Post Office is copied from...
Preliminary artist's sketch for Panels 9 and 10 of Rhinebeck Post Office Mural. Panel 9: "1865. A local family in Winter's Express is moving out West. In the foreground cutter sits Mr. DeLamater just made the first President of the First National...
Panel 7 of Rhinebeck Post Office Mural. From "Murals in the Rhinebeck Post Office." "Sunday morning before Dutch Reformed Church service. This building is drawn from the still standing clapboard Durch Reformed Church at Tivoli. Two walls of the...
Rhinebeck Post Office Mural Panel 9."A local family in Winter's Express is moving out West. In the foreground cutter sits Mr. DeLamater just made the first President of the First National Bank of Rhinebeck. The frozen river brings traffic to and...
Left side, 1939. Dedication of the new Post Office in May by President Roosevelt, the Crown Prince of Denmark, Secretaries Farley and Morgenthau. Right side- Indian cornfield.
"Sunday morning before Dutch Reformed Church service. This building is drawn from the still standing clapboard Durch Reformed Church at Tivoli. Two walls of the present structure (built by John Coddington in 1809) are made of contributed stone, tow...
Map of the Village of East Chester
Filed Oct 11, 1841
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After the Erie Railroad came throught this section was know as "Chester at the Depot" for a time. Now known as Downtown Chester. Most of the depot grounds became...
Photograph of the Holbert Farm, Sugar Loaf as seen from Mine Hill looking north-north-west.
Note: Buildings on the right foreground are on Hen Lane, now known as Well Sweep Lane.
Original advertisement sign of George H. Brooks, stating Hand Made Wagons & Carriages Painted.
George H. Brooks moved from Sterling Furnace to Sugar Loaf in 1885, and operated a Blacksmith Shop. In 1895 he moved to Chester to a wooden building...
Photograph of Chester Mills, operated by F.B. Seely,
Wholesale & Retail Dealer in Grain, Flour, Feed &c. It was demolished by W.A. Lawrence about 1920. The location is now, 7/30/2002, side parking lot at 117-119 Brookside Ave. Some stone work for...
Framed photograph of the Sugar Loaf Schoolhouse Building located on King's Highway at the northern entrance to the Sugar Loaf hamlet.
Now, 2002, a Sugar Loaf Fire Co. building.
“Mother Littell,” Ida Kronk Littell portrait photograph wearing fur coat and hat.. She resided on Walnut Avenue, Greycourt. Note: In 2006: Walnut Avenue is now called Lehigh Avenue.
