1821 Newbury, New York View
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Author Archives: Louise Smith
Dear Soldier Boy, 1918
I would like to revisit the young ladies (who read a Lone Scout magazine ad) and wrote letters/postcards to Mortimer McKinley Austin who had enlisted in the army. The letters were mostly written in February of 1918. There seems to … Continue reading
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1820 Hudson River
In my searches for photos on the Library of Congress site, I found several in the Hudson River Port Folio of interest. From LOC: Irish-born artist W.G. Hall spent the summer of 1820 traversing 212 miles of the Hudson River’s … Continue reading
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1831, James Eldred Postmaster
A couple weeks ago I was contacted by a descendant of C.C.P. and Effa VanTuyl Eldred. She wanted to share some documents and photos from her family. What a wonderful surprise that one of the documents was for the 1831 … Continue reading
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1873 Sunday afternoon
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Hickok Gravesite & Questions
Do any of my Halfway Brook readers know the first names of the Hickok family members buried in this enclosure in the Old Eldred Cemetery. On the “New Book” tab above, I have listed names of families who at one … Continue reading
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Travel By Railroad—1854
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Stagecoaches, etc.
I know of no place that seems pleasanter to me or agreed more with my health than Lumberland.* —Abby Smith, Nov. 1854. In 1854 Abby and Laurilla Smith from Glastenbury,** CT, visited Hannah Eldred and her daughter Mary Ann Austin … Continue reading
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Delaware River and Shohola, PA
1907 Mott Street, New York City
This is the color postcard of Mott Street where C.S. Bok, a friend of my grandfather Mort Austin lived. Grandfather Austin met C.S. Bok at Centenary Collegiate Institute (Hackettstown, NJ) in 1891. 1896 1327 Fifth Ave., New York, Sept. 5, … Continue reading
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