Category Archives: Barryville
1940s, Who Are We?
Taking a short break from the 1700s. Here is a photo I think was taken in the Town of Highland, I assume at either the Eldred or Barryville Methodist Church. I love the round glasses. My grandmother Myrtie Briggs is … Continue reading
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Barryville Boarding Houses, 1920
Barryville Boarding Houses, 1920–1921 Torwood Farm: Kerr Rose McQuirk Spring House: Christian Meyer Woodland Cottage: Colville Handsome Eddy: Agnes Schwab Maple Grove Farm: Anne Toaspern Cordes Delaware View Inn (Side Hill): Eggers and Rothenback Riverside Cottage: Louis and Mildred Warshauer
April 1917
My Tuesdays are meatless My Wednesdays are wheatless I am getting more eatless each day. My house is heatless My bed is sheetless They’ve all been sent to the Y.M.C.A.. The bar rooms are treatless My coffee is sweetless, Each … Continue reading
Revisiting 1942 Flood in Barryville
I thought my Halfway Brook readers might enjoy the larger images even though a few of these photos have been posted before: May 1942 Flooding Barryville Afloat. I have rescanned them larger and/or with some tone. Click on photos twice … Continue reading
Posted in Barryville, Brooks and Ponds, Farewell to Eldred, Old Photos
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Barryville Afloat
Do you recognize any of the buildings in this photo? Click on the photo to enlarge it.
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1935 Ice in the Delaware River
My mom grew up in Barryville with the Delaware River viewable from their front porch. Here she is with her brother John and a friend Fred Dieckoff near the Delaware at flood stage when the ice is breaking up.
Posted in Barryville, Farewell to Eldred, People
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Pelton Soda Bottle Factory
Less than five miles east of Zane Grey’s future property was an old D&H Canal office building in Barryville that Asher and Carrie Pelton had turned into a Soda Factory. The Pelton Company made their own bottles and filled them … Continue reading
Barryville, New York circa 1900
In 1900 Charles M. and Lottie Bradley Colville and their newborn daughter Ruth lived in Barryville. Charles was a farmer. Lottie was a daughter of Isaac and Joanna Bradley. We learn a bit more about the Colville family through letters … Continue reading
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