Category Archives: Echo Hill and Mountain Grove
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
Letters 9/27 to 10/07/1918
McKinley (Mac) Austin’s brother was serving in the Panama Canal Zone. Raymond Austin, Balboa, Canal Zone, to Mort Austin, Eldred September 27, 1918 Dear Father, So you will be glad when the last battle is fought. I think we all … Continue reading
On the way to Romagne-sous-Montfaucon 1918
Meuse-Argonne: First Phase September 26 to October 3, 1918 It was foggy around 5:30 a.m. Thursday, September 26, when about 600,000 American troops (most of them inexperienced) and their 2,700 artillery guns opened fire on 60,000 well entrenched Germans. The … Continue reading
McKinley Austin September 1918
McKinley Austin, 11th U.S. Inf. A.E.F., to Aida Austin September 22, 1918 (received Oct. 23) Dear Aunt, I am writing to let you know I am well. So far I have received all your letters. They did not come in … Continue reading