| Special Section to Celebrate The Bicentennial of Allegany County, NY 1806 - 2006 -
PRESS HERE - New articles & Pictures Added Throughout the Year |
"Newspaper Columns & Articles" of County Interest for Research and/or Entertainment....
Excerpts, clippings, transcriptions & a few original items....
What novel reading will do for boys
SIZER WATER; SAINT & SINNER ALIKE PARTAKE OF NEW CURE!
"ROW AT RICHBURG" - AT DISREPUTABLE DRINKING HOLE!
THE YEAR WITHOUT SUMMER - 1816, ALLEGANY COUNTY, NY; Compiled by Margaret Wood, former Andover Town Historian
UNCOVERING THE COATS FAMILY—AND THEIR FURNITURE!
- A Couple of Wellsville Firsts-Compiled by Ron Taylor, 2007.
Melvin Sortore Death Recalls Underground Railroad Story (1951, Wellsville Daily Reporter Clip)
6 Months in Erie County Penitentiary - Running House of Ill Repute! 1885 Wellsville
WILL OIL ENGINES SUPPLANT STEAM
A Crow that Talks!!
BOOMING BOLIVAR -1/31/1881
3
Andover News Items: (1) Crook Comes to Grief in Andover - 1927; (2)
Strange Find of Cuba Lake Road; Old Burial Plot Uncovered by Road Builders; Some 100 Years in Ground (5/14/1926); (3) Andover
has over 70 Occupations
POOR MAPLE SUGAR SEASON (1902)
THE FLOOR GAVE WAY!! A near disaster in 1858.
AN ACIENT POSTAL GUIDE - ISSUED 1822;
“The post offices of the United States
with the names of the postmasters and the counties and states in which they are located and the distances from the city of Washington, and the capitals of the respective states.” Is that
not some title? This book was issued by direction of the Postmaster General and printed in 1822.
Two Young Ladies Escape a Fearful Accident 1896
A Tale of "Panning for Gold" in the Microfilm!! --Newspaper Date 7/24/1883; The Headline: “Twenty Five Years Ago Today - A Page from Wellsville’s Early History”
"Back Home to Angelica" - Reprint of 1956 historically based writing from"The Rural New Yorker" Magazine - "Away for too long a time, I finally make a return"
Strong-Minded Women Etch Mark on County’s History
DO YOU THINK THIS WILL EVER CATCH ON? Telephone coming to Wellsville? 1883
SGT. MAJOR CHARLES J. HAYES, UNITED STATES MARINE; Although Mr. Hayes passed
away over 65 years ago his story lives on.
NATURAL ICE --Harvesting was a big business;
now almost vanished .....1/7/07
"THE NEW POSTAL CAR" & "FIVE DEAD IN WRECK AT TIOGA CENTER" 1881 Erie RR Articles
"ILLEGAL BOOZE"; Enforcing the 18th Amendment in Allegany County
Skating Party Comes to Grief; What Came
Very Near Being Fatal Accident Occurred When the Ice at Pond Gave Way-Andover Ponds-1932
December 24, 1869 - Column from Hornellsville Tribune;
"LOCAL & MISCELLANEOUS", "HERE & HEREABOUTS"--Cheese, Fire, School, Temperance, Alfred University, Jail Escape, Death, Dance, Andover Business, Oil
Discovered, Almond Business & Auction, and more...all in one column! pub.10/25/06
If You Look Younger With Your Hat On, You May Remember Some of These Old Timers; 1882-1890, Pennsy Railroad
History; Many Local Names..... pub.10/24/06
"New Memories for Old" by Kathleen Rockwell Lawrence -
A former Wellsville Gal wrote: "Christmas is Family Time. Does it
Matter if the family is one borrowed, with Love, for the Day?" MUST BE READ!
John J. McGraw, Baseball Hall of Famer Returns to Wellsville on 25th Anniversary - 1917
Old Newspaper Found Again after 45 years Between Brick; Oil Pump Station Dismantling
CONCH SHELL Told Time for Pioneers.
"Hurricane Agnes Hits the Alfred Area"; including a letter written by Josephine Rawe
during the June 1972 event week....
Pioneer's Castle - A story of venture "into the west", perhaps now called Allegany.....
Bears in Town - 1913 Arrivals are hard to find Owner
Exciting Runaway (1899 Wellsville)
"Tanbark City" by Shirley Engle and Jane Pinney; Story of Wellsville's Historic Industry. (Printed by
permission of the authors from April - 2006 Newletter of Thelma Rogers Genealogical & Historical Society)
James H. Jackson Becomes Hero
1915 McGee Murder in Wellsville
First Letter (of 2) written by "Bert Baker" alias Albert St. Clair
-1/4/1921 Looking for Family
Double Murder/Suicide in 1940, Wellsville
"YE GOLDEN TIME IN ANDOVER" - Another Intensely Interesting Letter from "Bert Baker" to His Andover Acquaintances -
Andover News Feb 4, 1921
The HANN
(Hand) Homestead of Andover/Elm Valley 12/29/2005
"Spring of 1900 in Andover" - Andover,NY - Biographical Story outlining
Surnames: KRUSEN, PREST, BOYD, CLARKE, GREEN, WESCOTT, HENDERSON, BULLARD,
MCGINTY, SNYDER, PORTER, BAKER, PORTER, RICHARDSON, CHURCH, GARVIN & BASSETT
"THE EFFECT OF STRIKING OIL"-A Village of Two
Hundred Inhabitants Increasing to Five Thousand in Six Months
Dam Story - "Dam
rescued 'hill' town from obscurity"-Rushford,NY
Mystery Murders at Belfast Canal Warehouse-April 20, 1910
The "Fanning
Mill" by Richard Palmer; an interesting story for
everyone of a tool very much in use on the "olden" farm
"The
Name of Canaseraga Only Left" - "Canaseraga Swept by Fierce Flames"
(Town of Burns, 1895)
"ANOTHER
HORROR. Peter Hart, One of the Best Known Oil Well Shooters --"His
Body Blow to Atoms........" A tale of Nitroglycerine in 1891
"BITS & PIECES" - of Oil, Timber & Development of Industry in the Area;
Letters & Writings submitted by Peter Sprague of
Cuba,NY. 5 sections completed 7/27/05-- DON'T LEAVE WITHOUT READING THE SECTION -
"Music Mountain"
"Happy Jack", 360 lb. Cop - Bolivar & Richburg Police Chief during Oil
Boom Days
BUILDING COLLAPSE - 1923 - "We Remember When"
-Ellsworth Building 3/23/05
Allegany Pioneer
Life In 1805 Mr. And Mrs. Philip Church
Journeyed from Bath to Belvidere on Horseback
‘Secret’ Mine Still Eludes Allegany Man A Seneca Legend; Elmer Watson Story
WORLD WAR I
SOLDIERS CITED FOR BRAVERY--Owen F. Duffy & Chase Fulkerson 3/2/05
STORY
OF CHARLES F. DAVIS’S ESCAPE FROM ANDERSONVILLE PRISON
Home Remedies!! Read only; do not consume!
Pictures of 3 Youth Who
Rode Last Erie Train from Wellsville
REPUBLICAN PARTY-BORN IN ALLEGANY COUNTY (FRIENDSHIP)??
Allentown -
1881 - Before the Oil
The Plank Road -Interesting
form of Transportation in Allegany County & NY State
The 1st Macadamized
Road in the County-A
Transportation Chuckle
OIL, OIL, & MORE OIL
"The
Last Run" of The WAG -A
Story by one who was there - Ron StaffordBOLIVAR
-A Poem by Helen
Grace MillimanCauses
of Death -Need
a little smile? Taken from 19th Century Mortuary Tables.
The Biography of A
Stone 
