Halfway Brook

Postcard in the Austin family collection.
I’ve been working quite a bit on Echo Hill and Mountain Grove, the next book in my Eldred series. This is one of the many postcards sent to my Austin grandparents or their children from the early 1900s, that will be included.

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Rhode Island Battleship Battleship on 1907 postcard sent to McKinley Austin.

Idaho Battleship on 1907 postcard sent to McKinley Austin.
There are a number of postcards from the early 1900s in my mom’s collection. These two battleship postcards were sent to my dad’s oldest brother in 1907.

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Fifth Avenue, New York City. Post Card from 1907.
I’ve been working on book 2, “Echo HIll and Mountain Grove.” The following tongue-in-cheek article was taken from a newspaper clipping in my great-grandmother Mary Ann Eldred Austin’s scrapbook. I think it may be from the late 1800s.
A few hints, boiled down, the observance of which will [...]

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Augustus Austin and his wife, Maria Eldred Austin.
Photo courtesy of cousin Kathy T.
The Mill on Halfway Brook tells the story of the January 1916 birth of Phebe Maria Eldred just 10 days after her parents, James and Polly Mulford Eldred arrived and settled in a log cabin near Halfway Brook in the Town of Lumberland, [...]

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First of all I would like to thank those of you who bought, The Mill on Halfway Brook. I hope you enjoy reading the book.
It’s been busy times and a steep learning curve with the publishing of The Mill on Halfway Brook. But last evening, everything seemed calm, so I started getting the photos I [...]

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Book 1, The Mill on Halfway Brook, starts off in the town of Lumberland, the main occupation of the people there relating to lumber.
Before 1880, when Book 2 starts, the work base has shifted to work on the canal, railroad, bluestone quarries and running boarding homes, though there are still some sawmills in the area.
The [...]

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