Halfway Brook

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 right. Old photo courtesy of my cousin Linda.
The early bunkhouses for lumbermen were small with dirt [...]

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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 of my cousin Cynthia.

Stonewalls where the old mill used to stand. Photos courtesy of Cynthia.

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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 to my cousin Cynthia for the Blind Pond Brook photos
and to Kelly for the Blind Pond [...]

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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 our meetings on every Sabbath on Halfway Brook, four miles from the Delaware and Hudson Canal. [...]

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