A WHALE IN WELLSVILLE?
WHERE WERE BASEBALL BATS PRODUCED FOR LOU GEHRIG, BABE RUTH & OTHER TOP HITTERS? BELMONT IN ALLEGANY COUNTY!!
part II - "Memories by Matty" Published Feb. 20, 1930, in Allegany County Democrat; Former resident, writes from California--Memories of "Nat" Johnson & Old
Union School
Long Trip Horseback, 1820 - Cuba to Canandaigua
Cuba in
Canal Days
114 Year-Old Cutter
"Memories by Matty" Published Feb 13, 1930 in the Allegany County Democrat--Former resident, writes from California
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First Tile House in Allegany County
Octopus Tree -- Outstanding Freak of Nature in WNY
"Make No Bones About It...."; Clippings about Skeletal Surfacings Around Allegany County
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"Sad Accident near Genesee Station" (Wellsville)"; Erie Train kills Esther Dunham Chandler, Hornellsville Tribune, 1852......more
45 YEARS AT THE CAPITOL; Capt. John A. Travis of Andover-Keeper of the Door - House of Representatives
"ANCIENT COLUMNS"; Clippings from newsworthy stories printed in Angelica Advocate, Cuba Patriot, Canaseraga Times and other county papers.
The Old-time General Store was a Symbol of American Enterprise
December 22, 1896: Oldest Resident of Allegany County and New York State - Peter Cannon - Dies at Age 118 !!
Two Final Resting Places Found - County Civil War Soldiers - "Looking for a soldier who served his country and has been buried in some forgotten spot outside of town is the mystic of it. It is satisfying to find them and
nice to be able to honor them for their sacrifice."...Tom Warner of Angelica
"A Million Acres Claimed; The Heirs of Robert Morris About to Begin a Big Suit; They Say They are Entitled to Lands in WNY Worth Fifty Millions of Dollars"
The Alma Ice Cave & White Pebbles
Reminiscence of Wellsville in 1845
Part 7 - Reminiscences of Wellsville,
TAYLOR BUILDING COLLAPSE - NEAR DISASTER
Part 6 - Reminiscences of Wellsville,
OUR FIRST FIRE DEPARTMENT
Part 5 - Reminiscences of Wellsville,
GREAT FOREST FIRE
THE FIRST MOWING MACHINE - BELFAST
116 Years Old, Peter Cannon - in 1894
Reminiscences of Wellsville - Interviews by Dr. H. M. Sherrar; Part 1 - "Uncle Billy Weed, The Sexton";
Part 2 - Job Straights Log Cabin Was the First House in Corporate Wellsville
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Part 3 - LOST IN THE WOODS; Another Tale of Early Life I the Town of Wellsville; The Father of Job Straight Spends Eight Days Lost in the Wilds – While Two Hundred Men Hunt for Him…Dr. Sheerar’s
Reminiscences Continued.
Part 4 -
THE TWO SMALL POX SCARES IN 1861 AND 1862 - ONLY TWO PERSONS DIED; by Dr. H. M. Sheerar Jan 1895
Obituary for Mildred; Wellsville's Main Street Canine Cop and Night Watchman
THE COLD JUNE OF 1816
"BLOWN TO ATOMS" -
Tragic Death of Charley Key, Shooter for the DuPont Powder Co. – Man and Team Go Up with 800 Quarts of Nitro-Glycerin.
Among the Strawberries; An Afternoon at A.N. Cole’s “Home on the Hillside” - 1885
AS TOLD TO ME – A Lady Tells a ‘Fish’ Story
A Tale of a Traveling Turtle (1887)
A Class In the Allegany Field Who Find It Very Hard to Make a Raise.
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 Passenger 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 Stafford
BOLIVAR
-A Poem by Helen
Grace Milliman
Causes
of Death -Need
a little smile? Taken from 19th Century Mortuary Tables.
The Biography of A
Stone 
