Halfway Brook

This letter was written to Mary Ann Austin in Eldred, New York, from her niece, Addie Austin who lived in New York City. The bridge referred to is the Barryville-Shohola Bridge over the Delaware River, shown in the posts before and after this one.
New York, March 18, 1865
Dear Aunt Mary,
We have all been sick again [...]

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I recently met Kathy, a great-great-granddaughter of my Austin great-grandparents, William Henry and Mary Ann Eldred Austin. Kathy has shared with me the photos in her wonderful collection. Here is a postcard. Does anyone know where this is and if it is Halfway Brook?

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Chapter 5 is about my Austin family’s arrival in what is now Eldred, New York, and I included a black and white scan of an Austin crazy quilt coverlet that I have always loved and admired. I remember as a child admiring all the variety of stitches, the rose, the rose branch, the wheat with [...]

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Sixty years ago in December just closed, Grandfather Eldred came to this neighborhood. At that time it was called Lumberland. Uncle C.C.P. Eldred was a little over seven years old. Came from Orange County, Wallkill Township to Halfway Brook on the old Cochecton Road.
Here they found a sawmill and log house. No other building [...]

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The Halfway Brook (there is another one in New York) I write about, is in a most gorgeous area called the Upper Delaware River Region, in New York State. This Halfway Brook was the name of a nine-mile stream, before it became the name of the Village which is now Eldred.
Halfway Brook flowed [...]

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Welcome friends and relatives to Halfway Brook, shown in the photo above.
There are many Halfway Brooks in North America. This Halfway Brook is in New York state and is a nine mile stream (I have read) which flows into the Delaware River in the gorgeous scenic Upper Delaware River Region.
Halfway Brook was first the name of the [...]

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