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See: chs-015874 Letter from Janet Allen:
"Janet Allen
59 Yorkshire Terrace
Washingtonville, NY 10992
August 1, 2016
Chester Historical Society
47 Main Street
Chester, NY 10918
Dear Norma,
Thank you so much for the photo of the cash box I had donated, I was thinking that I should have taken I picture. You read my mind. Thank you!
I remember the day I acquired the cash box. It was at an Estate Auction in the Summer of 2007 for McLaughlin family at 59 East Main Street. What I remember the most was the atmosphere. I had gotten the impression that he was much loved and was very involved with the community and was interested in the train system. I had to have a piece of history. When the box was being auctioned they had said, that there were only two boxes. (the first article is the newspaper writing on the auction).
In looking up who was E.J. McLaughlin. His great grandfather was John Jacques who had settled in Washingtonville in 1809. And the Erie railroad Washingtonville was built in 1850. E.J. McLaughlin has YouTube videos of the train and railroad- NY Ontario Western Railroad. (second article)
The third article is the history of the railroad in Washingtonville.
I am so happy the Erie Railroad cash box is on display and can be enjoyed again.
Sincerely,
Janet Allen
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Slice of history on the block
Times Herald-Record/KEN BIZZIGOTTI These ceramic beer bottles, which date back to 1800, will be among the items auctioned off Saturday at the McLaughlin estate in Washingtonville.
By STORY By Raja Abdulrahim Posted Jul 11, 2007 at 2:00 AM &byline;PHOTOS By KEN BIZZIGOTTI
Washingtonville -The house was lived in until a year ago, but it still has the soft, musty smell of a museum or antique shop.
It very well could be either.
More than 1,000 items spanning more than 200 years of Washingtonville history will be sold at 10 a.m. Saturday at the estate auction of Edward Jaques "E.J." III and Joan McLaughlin at 59 E. Main St.
Included in the auction will be the four-bedroom, 1840 house itself, plus a treasure trove of historical contents such as an old Erie Railroad "Washingtonville" sign and dirtcaked bottles, signs and labels from the 1800s winery that is now the Brotherhood Winery, Bidding for the house alone is expected to open at $350,000.
"Estates like this are long gone," said auctioneer Bob Connelly, who is organizing the sale.
More common are the personal collections that focus on one item, such as china or Civil War rifles. Rarely do auctioneers see this kind of estate where the artifacts have not been divided up among heirs. Connelly believes the collection
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could interest historians in at least 40 fields, from military to railroads to wineries, much of it ranging from the 1790s to the 1850s.
"Believe me, when we brought our children here, we held on to them, dogs too," said Dorothy Szefc, niece of the McLaughlins and administrator of the estate. "No one was allowed to run loose here."
E.J. McLaughlin's great-grandfather was John Jaques, a Washingtonville boot maker turned winemaker. In 1886, the Jaques Bros. winery was sold and eventually became the Brotherhood Winery.
The McLaughlins had no children and the family survivors are six cousins from Joan's side and a cousin from E.J. 's. Selling the house and all its contents and dividing the money is more practical than attempting to divvy up the artifacts in the house, Szefc said.
Some items, like former village historian E.J. McLaughlin's writing and drawings of Washingtonville scenes, were donated to the village, town and library.
But some involved in the sale are sorrowful that so many local artifacts will possibly be finding faraway homes.
''To me, it is with immense sadness that I see this auction," said Blooming Grove historian Jeanne Versweyveld, who helped with the estate inventory. "A large amount of Washingtonville history just being handed off to the highest bidder."
LATEST LOCAL VIDEOS: DAVID LEVINSON, JUST RETIRED AS WOODBURY TOWN JUSTICE AFTER SERVING FOR 37Y:z YEARS, HAS SEEN AND HEARD IT ALL.
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Washingtonville was first settled in 1731. In 1809 John Jacques, a boot and shoemaker, set up his shop in this tiny settlement of nine houses, then known as Little York. Jacques would later establish America's Oldest winery in 1839, now known as Brotherhood Winery.
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Samuel Moffat built a trading post on the village square in 1811 at the junction of the New Windsor and Blooming Grove Turnpike with Goshen Road. The hamlet began to prosper with a tannery, grist and plaster mills. A hotel was needed, and Samuel Moffat built his Washington Tavern in 1818. That same year Samuel and John Jacques bestowed the village with a new name, Washingtonville, in honor of the late General and First President of the United States who, we are told, came through and watered his horse at the trough which had been located under the big tree in the center of the village.
Washingtonville grew after the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railway built its branch through the village in 1850. Even though the railway tracks have been removed, the remains of the railroad building are located behind the former Agway Store, now Fulton Square.
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Country Cousins -A Series -
by Robert McCue
Up until my high school years I had virtually in my back yard a railfan's paradise, a branch line with track , station, (with signboard still up!) it was almost everything a railfan could need. I say almost everything because the brush growing between the rails told of the one basic element that had been missing for some time. Anyone who knows the area knows Weir's Ice cream parlor. The railroad bridge is right behind it And I am sure many remember the railroad crossing in Salisbury Mills (Or more appropriately, your cars shocks do!) I have many happy memories of summers in that in that area. From the age of five I can recall a real long freight coming down the line, crossing at Vails Gate. Little did I know then that the days of such a grand site at that crossing were numbered.
Right around my senior year I sent a letter to The O&W society with my idea to make that railroad a tourist line. Somewhere in my ''files" I have the answer "from the operating department". Imagine my surprise that following winter when I saw someone else in the Newspaper with the same thought in mind! I remember the figure exactly, revamping the railroad line costing $15,000 a mile! That was back when gas was what, a dollar fifty a gallon? What would that figure be now? Well never know because that was just when Conrail was pulling up the rails. The freight house In Washingtonville was already gone.
Ten years of hiking the now empty right of way, Fotomat Disk camera in hand, would pass before venturing out the other end of the line to Greycourt The seeds for Country Cousins were now planted ...
When in my sunrise years, barely a teen I had a friend in the Erie railroad when her rails had their proud sheen
I heard her at sunrise, I heard her at night
I heard her amid storms and knew all as all right
I could run alongside the erie in the days before war would leave my youth on some distant shore
My sunrise years have all passed, my health is now frail what I knew as the Erie my grandchildren know as a trail There is a place where the rails can still be seen there in the bushes but without their proud sheen
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Come my last sunrise I will take the lord's hand and I and the Erie will be young once again
Dedicated to "EJ" Mclaughlin 111 Historian, Artist and friend to all.
Erie crossing over Jackson Ave, Summer of 1985.
The Erie name was still on the abutment.
It was spring of 1989 when I started out to record the entire Erie branch. Sadly, there is not much to record below Vails Gate. Past the former crossing for Route 94 and stone mile marker 13 the r.o.w. starts to become one of those high curved embankments than in steam days mast have made for some awesome pictures. Passing over the O&W right of way you stand on what was once a two track bridge. A reminder of this branch's glory days. Standing up there looking at the o&W straightaway one can just picture a train passing under. Digging into the grade with clouds of steam and smoke as to make a railroad fan smile. In a minute it's gone, just a whistle in the distance.
Back on the Erie here, a lot of curves and rock cuts give way to the farmland that reminds one that this was once a very rural railroad line. Over Jackson Avenue and under the Grahm Line's fabled Moodna Viaduct The People still ride their horses out in this stretch.
When out by the viaduct, take a very close look in the fall at the trestle pier to the right side of Orr's Mills Road. On the left concrete footing you can still make out some of the inscription the contractor for the viaduct left. It would not come out in a picture very well but it's there but fading fast Ahead is Clove Road and Orr's Mills crossings and the site of the station. Over the road and over the first Moodna crossing. A second bridge, a girder one, is right behind Weir's Ice cream. For anyone hiking the ROW I strongly recommend a visit Marker G9 sits right there at the bridge.
The bridge just below Washingtonville has the old pin construction. Now, Mr. Mclaughlin told me on what
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