This is one of the super maps that my husband created for The Mill on Halfway Brook. Both the early names and current names are shown.
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 … Continue reading
During the winter, large quantities of lumber from the Halfway Brook mills were drawn to Barryville, made into rafts, then taken to Handsome Eddy, two or three miles further down the river. There they waited for the spring freshets. At … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
It was the beginning of December 1815. A lone log house and sawmill stood silently on almost two acres of cleared land near the middle of Halfway Brook, in the Town of Lumberland, New York. There were no other buildings … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Since the story of my Austin/Leavenworth ancestors, took place in the same location for almost 140 years, I began searching to find out the arrival of each family. The following timeline (give or take a couple years in some instances) … Continue reading
Note: I don’t know who wrote the following letter. “fs” is read as “ss”. Narrows Burgh, March 1848 To Mifs Mary A. Eldred, Lumberland My dear Friend, I thought I would spend a few moments this day noon in writing … Continue reading
“A freshet is a sudden rise in the level of a stream, or a flood, caused by heavy rains or the rapid melting of snow and ice.” I dutifully copied the dictionary definition well over a year ago, when first … Continue reading
