Category Archives: Echo Hill and Mountain Grove
Highland Lake Boarding Houses
Minisink Ford and Montgomery Pond
More Yulan Boarding Houses
Yulan Boarding Houses, 1920
Yulan Boarding Houses Bodine’s Cottages, Henry and Blanche Bodine Grand Vue, Bornstein Park Hotel, Atwell Bradley Cold Spring Farm, Crandall Washington Beach Hotel, Henri Darriensecq Laurel Cottage, Abel Hazen Lakeview Farm, Kaese Highland Cottage, Edith V. Kalbfus Minisink Lodge, M.A. … Continue reading
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
Meuse-Argonne Cemetery
The Meuse-Argonne Cemetery covers 130 acres and holds the largest number of American dead—14,246—in Europe. Most of those buried in the cemetery died during WWI’s Meuse-Argonne Offensive. A short distance from the Meuse-Argonne Cemetery, just where the Romagne-Cunel Road turned … Continue reading
Jennie Austin, Gold Star Mother
It was a custom of families of servicemen to hang a service Flag in the window of their homes. The Service Flag had a star for each family member in the military. Living servicemen were represented by a blue star, … Continue reading
Mortimer McKinley Austin, 1899–October 14, 1918
Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, France, October 12–17, 1918 McKinley’s outfit arrived in the vicinity of Romagne-sous-Montfaucon on October 12. They suffered casualties from the heavy shelling of enemy guns the next day. That evening the 11th Infantry took up a position around Ferme … Continue reading
France, October 11–13, 1918
Cunel, France, October 11, 1918 On October 11 the attack was renewed early in the morning…Progress was bitterly contested by heavy machine-gun fire and by flanking artillery support, as on previous days. During the night of October 11-12, the relief … Continue reading
