Sketch of Chester with historical labels

Map

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Chester Historical Society

Donald M. Barrell's Sketch of Chester with historical labels: The image is a hand-drawn, vintage-style map by Donald M. Barrell featuring various intriguing labels and landmarks, such as "Old mine," "Quaker Church," "Claudius Smith's Marauders," and "Erie Railroad 1842," interspersed with rivers, roads, and named locations like "Oxford," "Seely Brook," and "Ramapo Pass Trail." It includes topographical features like hills and valleys, marked with scribbled annotations and symbols indicating points of interest or historical significance, etc.
Donald M. Barrell's Sketch of Chester with historical labels

The image is a hand-drawn, vintage-style map by Donald M. Barrell featuring various intriguing labels and landmarks, such as "Old mine," "Quaker Church," "Claudius Smith's Marauders," and "Erie Railroad 1842," interspersed with rivers, roads, and named locations like "Oxford," "Seely Brook," and "Ramapo Pass Trail." It includes topographical features like hills and valleys, marked with scribbled annotations and symbols indicating points of interest or historical significance, etc.

Name/Title

Sketch of Chester with historical labels

Entry/Object ID

chs-009634

Description

The image is a hand-drawn, vintage-style map by Donald M. Barrell featuring various intriguing labels and landmarks, such as "Old mine," "Quaker Church," "Claudius Smith's Marauders," and "Erie Railroad 1842," interspersed with rivers, roads, and named locations like "Oxford," "Seely Brook," and "Ramapo Pass Trail." It includes topographical features like hills and valleys, marked with scribbled annotations and symbols indicating points of interest or historical significance, etc.

Collection

Donald M. Barrell

Category

Maps

Acquisition

Accession

Chester Public Library

Notes

8/2/2006 Gift from Chester Public Library

Map Details

Maker or Creator

Donald M. Barrell

Area or Region

* Untyped Area or Region

Chester (Town) - Orange County - New York

Transcription

Preparations for maps of Chester Township location of land to 1975 not yet completed 7/4/1977 DMB Sketch of Chester with historical labels: B. Y. Tuthill School Smiths' Sinking Pond - Why did it’s water raise and lower? Was it bewitched? Youngs Seely Brook Lazy Hill Quaker Hill Galloway Oxford Old mine Woodhulls Marvins Claudius Smith’s Marauder~ School Erie Railroad 1842 Ramapo Pass Trail The Cromline Daniel Cromline “Graycourt" Hub Shop Frank Woodhull Craigville Hector Craig Glass Factory School Hornby’s "Cooked Cereal” Paper Mill Saw Mill Plaster Mill Store Parker’s Blacksmith Shop Distillery Hector St.John Michel St.Jean DeCrevecoeur "Letters from an American Farmer” First Lima Beans in North America Hambletonian Monument March 27 1875 Moffats Springstead “Coming of the Green” 1842 Wawayanda Pathe until Revolution “Kings Highway” Soldiers Monument Erie Railroad Conklins Big Fire Kings School 1851 Howland House/Railroad Hotel Chester 1845 Drake’s Tavern Peter Townsend John Yelverton Yelverton’s Home-1755 Inn-1765 Wawayanda-Cheesekook Land Patent Case 1785 (Burr, Hamilton, Hommideau, Boudinot, Austin Smith, Adam Wisner, Hugh Dobbin) Woods Demerest Black Smith Shop Orange County Fair 1855 Clay Pits Durlands Jacksons West Chester Chester Academy The Otterkill Lawrence Boards Vails School Cheese Factory Grist Mill Plaster Mill Davis King Mate Animal cemetery a lion buried here. Nathaniel Knapp 1726 Nathaniel Roe 1732 Mile posts Sugar Loaf Mountian Indian burial ground Storm 1892 endangering mountain climbing party Shugar Loafe Coast and Geodetic Survey Azimuth Marker Hugh Dobbins horse pasture land Dean Prairies” Brimstone Mine Hill Old Mine holes Electrical ground Charges School Black Smith Shop Hugh Dobbin Tavern Distillery McWhorters Cooperage 1739 First Church Drakes 1810 Soap Factory Jenning Murder 1818 Dean Jonas Seely Kent Mare Bill Rysdyk Hambletonian Birth Place May 5, 1845 Guy Miller Harmon Showers Raynor Slate Quarry Green Jesse Woodhull Stevens School Swamp McGinnes Legend of the Hoop Snake of Snake Hill Smith’s swamp Fitzgeralds Charcoal pits “Cat Rocks” Claudius Smith’s Treasure Den Howells Wisners School Dinosaur Bones

Dimensions

Height

18 cm

Width

40.7 cm

Create Date

October 22, 2024

Update Date

December 28, 2024