There are more students in the photo than are identified in the yearbook.
The Junior Class of 1942
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Eldred School in 1937
What was once Abel Myers Orchard Terrace boarding house, became the school in Eldred in 1925.
From 1925 to 1926 there were 116 students, 5 faculty. Two years of high school and two high school classes were available. The old school was remodeled.
In the 1926 school year, improvements were made and English 3 was added.
1926 seems to be the year my dad started high school. He was able to attend High School in Eldred and graduated in 1930. Being the only student, Dad was valedictorian, but he would sometimes say he graduated at the bottom of his class.
In 1931 the old school was remodeled to make a gym. Sunshine Hall was purchased in 1934 and became an auditorium. The old Orchard Terrace house was still the school in 1937.
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1937 Eldred Central’s Baseball Team
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1943 Eldred Band
I am making great strides towards getting all the pieces (photos and information) organized for Book 3. Above is the band photo from the 1943 Eldred School Yearbook, one of the many new photos I have recently scanned.
In the process of organizing 4 diaries, photos and info from 20-plus school yearbooks, 5 years of emails laden with info tidbits, numerous obits, a new array of letters, recently sent info/photos (all to be incorporated with the original “rest of the book”), I came across a May 2009 email which indicated I was pondering the possibility of breaking the manuscript into more than one book.
Deciding to make 3 books out of the (then) 650 pages has been quite the adventure. It has included meeting many new friends and relatives whose input has been so essential to writing the history of our ancestors who lived in the vicinity of the Town of Highland, not far from Halfway Brook.
And now, three years later, I “know” who so many of the people were who were written about in the letters and diaries from 1920 to 1950—and in some cases even have photos.
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Zane Grey’s House in Lackawaxen
Zane Grey’s first Western, The Heritage of the Desert, written in 1910, became a best seller. By 1915 Zane Grey had 15 books on a variety of subjects, including baseball, westerns, fishing, and outdoor adventure.
—wikipedia.org; nps.gov/upde.
Zane and Dolly Roth Grey lived near the Roebling Bridge at Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania. Zane had met his future wife Lina (Dolly) Roth, at the Delaware House in Lackawaxen where Zane and his brother Romer liked to hike and fish.
In 1904 Zane had left his New York City dental practice to become a professional writer. With the help of Dolly, Zane bought 3 acres with a house and barn in Pennsylvania from the Holberts for $1,425.
(Federick and Mary Holbert had bought the 3-acre farm in 1898 for $300 from the Canal which was closing.) The land was just south of the junction of the Delaware and Lackawaxen Rivers, and north of the Roebling Bridge—some 5 miles west of Shohola.
Zane and Polly’s drafty Holbert farmhouse was next to the house and property of Zane’s brother Romer. In 1914 Romer Grey and his wife deeded their house to Zane’s wife, Dolly Grey, for a dollar. Continue reading
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Mountain Grove House Guest
This lady is in several photos connected with Mort and Jennie Austin’s family and their boarding house, Mountain Grove. Does she look familiar to anyone?
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Greig House
Ferncliff Lodge
Jennie Crawford mentioned Jack Myers moving into his new home in her letter of April 24, 1904. Perhaps it was his boarding house called Ferncliff Lodge. [Ferncliff would be owned by Guido Bischoff around 1920. Later it would be owned by Andy Gugle (spelling?)]
Ferncliff Lodge is 110 miles from New York City, via Erie Railroad to Shohola Station, and a conveyance to Ferncliff which is located on ridge of mountain, surrounded by pine clad hills, between Eldred and Highland Lake—15 minutes walk to either place. House has 10 rooms, 120 feet of piazza, fine well of water, and as to the table, we try to give perfect satisfaction.
Terms: Rooms occupied singly, $10 per week; two or more in room, $7.00; transients, $1.50 per day. Ferncliff conveyances will meet any train on notification. Fare, 50 cents each person. Baggage charged for according to bulk and weight.
Anna Leavenworth’s Class
Anna Leavenworth was my great aunt.
Anna taught in Yulan, Town of Highland, NY, at one time. This is her class in Eldred, Town of Highland, sometime before 1906. It includes the future Mrs. J.C. Penney, Caroline Autenrieth.
The Autenrieths owned what was originally the Parker House in Eldred. By 1910 it was owned by the Straub family.
Row 1: Alfred Eldred, Charles Ort, Charles Rundle, Jamie Parker, Clarence Wormuth, Ernest Horton, Emerson McBride. Row 2: Hattie Schroeder, Stella Boyd, Martha Rundle, Lila Myers, Claudia McBride, Maude Horton, Caroline Autenrieth, Mildred Myers, Mildred Rundle. Row 3: Fred Stewart, Hazel Sergeant, Bertha Eldred, Emily Parker, George Eldred, Sherman McBride. Row 4: Herman Schroeder, Mabel Furver, Mabel Boyd, Minnie Sergeant, Christina Leavenworth, Earl Owen. Anna Leavenworth, Teacher.
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