Southeast of Hagan Pond, where the Martin David Myers family settled, was Round Pond, a lake fed entirely by underground springs, and 60 to 80 feet deep at the center. Today Round Pond is called Lake DeVenoge. The DeVenoge family … Continue reading
The Martin D. Myers family settled east of the Austin property, underneath Hagan Pond’s thumb, but on the south side of Hagan Pond Road, close to Collins Road. Map showing Hagan Pond (Highland Lake) and Round Pond (Lake DeVenoge). Halfway … Continue reading
The oldest letter in the family collection was from my great-grandmother Mary Ann Eldred in 1845. It is excerpted below. Included in the old letters was an 1845 newspaper clipping about a mortgage sale for land of Abraham Mulford Eldred … Continue reading
In my mother’s wonderful eclectic collection of family treasures were letters from 1845 and 1848. The letters were folded into an envelope, and then addressed. The contents of the letters are typed out in Chapter 6 in The Mill on … Continue reading
Sherman B., or Buckley, as Sherman Buckley Leavenworth was called, was one of those lumberjacks. Buckley’s wife Charlotte, according to the family story, was the cook for the lumberjacks who lived in the bunkhouse. Possibly the old bunkhouse on the … Continue reading
Between Beaver Brook Mills and Halfway Brook Village, was Blind Pond, which had a brook of the same name. A mile or so southeast of Blind Pond was a sawmill powered by Blind Pond Brook. Blind Pond Brook. Photo courtesy … Continue reading
Blind Pond Brook (above) is on the west side of Eldred in the Town of Highland New York. Halfway Brook is to the East. You can see their location on the 1870 map in the Chapter 4 post. Thank you … Continue reading
During the winter, large quantities of lumber from the Halfway Brook mills were drawn to Barryville, made into rafts, then taken to Handsome Eddy, two or three miles further down the river. There they waited for the spring freshets. At … Continue reading
You ask the probable amount we would raise per Sabbath. I think we could raise $5 dollars per Sabbath for a season amongst ourselves… At the place in which we live there is a school house in which we hold … Continue reading
The work of most people in the area was related in some way to lumbering. Each lumbering company had its small community of employees, most of whom lived in make-shift tenements, and some did not have a garden. But all … Continue reading
