Along The Wawayanda Path From Old Greycourt To Chester To Sugar Loaf
Along The Wawayanda Path From Old Greycourt To Chester To Sugar Loaf
The book cover titled "Along the Wawayanda Path" shows a historic scene.
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Along The Wawayanda Path From Old Greycourt To Chester To Sugar Loaf. TABLE OF CONTENTS Dedication v list of Maps and Illustrations VUI Acknowledgments IX Foreword xu Chapter 1 Chester Meadows 1 Chapter 2 The Early Days 8 Chapter 3 Hector St. John 11 Chapter 4 Some Early Pioneers 15 Chapter 5 The Craigs of Craigville 17 Chapter 6 Battle of Minisink and Claudius Smith 23 Chapter 7 Wawayanda-Cheesekook Land Patent Case 30 Chapter 8 American Revolution and Old Chester 44 Chapter 9 Joseph Drake and the Chester Irish 50 Chapter 10 Chester Academy 54 Chapter 11 Howland House 61 Chapter 12 History of Chester 67 Chapter 13 The Chester Band 74 Chapter 14 Great Drainage Project 77 Chapter 15 Shore Road to Craigville 79 Chapter 16 John P. Bull and his flags 83 Chapter 17 Sam Deutsch, Black Dirt King 88 Chapter 18 Twenty Year War 91 Chapter 19 Railroad Echoes From Greycourt 97 Chapter 20 Sugar Loaf 130 Chapter 21 Early Settlers of Sugar Loaf 136 Chapter 22 Hugh Dobbin Story 139 Chapter 28 Indians and More Early Settlers 151 Chapter 24 Homespun Era in Sugar Loaf 153 Chapter 25 Stevens Families 156 Chapter 26 Wawayanda Path and the Revolution 159 Chapter 27 Old Flanders Circuit 162 Chapter 28 Richard Jennings Murder 164 Chapter 29 Curious Tales 174 Chapter 30 Mid-Nineteenth Century Sugar Loaf 183 Chapter 31 Hambletonian 186 Chapter 32 Calamity Corners 196 Chapter 33 Sugar Loaf Methodist Episcopal Church 201 Chapter 34 District Schools 203 Chapter 35 Jesse C. Wood's General Store 207 Chapter 86 Sugar Loaf Post Office 211 Chapter 87 Sugar Loaf Statistics 213 Chapter 38 Great Storm of 1892 216 Chapter 89 More Railroad Tales 218 Appendix (Statistics of Old Chester) 222 Bibliography 231 Index 233 MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS Frontispiece ii Chester Railroad Station xv Map of Town of Chester xvi Old Yelverton Inn, 1775 7 Site of Michael Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur's Home 14 Alexander Hornby's cooked cereal mill, home of "H 0" Cereal Front view shows warehouse, packing department and store Back view shows the Crommeline and water wheel 19 Minisink Battle Monument for July 22, 1779 25 Map showing location of houses of old Chester .46 Chester Academy, built in 1842 55 Chester Academy burned April 9, 1906 55 Howland House, built in 1842, burned Dec 6, 1915 62 Chester's first railroad station, built in 1842 69 John P. Bull's store and weather flag, also snow scene in 1914 85 Jackmann House and Greycourt flood Oct 8, 1903 :............ 87 Visible water on meadows after each hard storm 89 Fence that caused the "Twenty Year War" 93 New Chester Station built in 1915 109 Cut which cost $1,000,00 to clear in blizzard of Mar. 12, 1888 119 Original map of Wawayanda Cheeskook Land Patent Case 131 Spot where Teed and Dunning were hung, Apr. 16, 1819 169 The Sugar Loaf Hotel 169 Picture of Hambletonian 189 Chester Baseball Team, county champions 1911 219 --------- DONALD M. BARRELL ABOUT THE AUTHOR Donald Melville Barrell is a legend in his own time. This gifted storyteller was born in 1883 and is now 92 years old. Don's ability to tell a story seems to have been inherited from his grandmother, Mrs. E. B. Hornby, who in 1898 wrote, "Under Old Rooftrees", the only history of the small community of Warwick, New York. Mrs. Hornby's work has become a priceless collector's item over the years. Don's interest in the Township of Chester, N. Y., has spanned nearly a century and it was Don who founded and became the first president of the Chester Historical Society. Always interested in the community and in the establishment of truly protective fire districts, Don was honored in 1969 by having the Fireman's Park in Chester Village named after him. Mr. Barrell's middle name is derived from the families friendship with the noted American Novelist, Herman Melville. Jacket by Ed McLaughlin Printed by The Service PressCollection
Shirley Uyhelyi WoodCategory
Chester History