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Genesee Valley Canal Chapter from History of the Canal System of the State of New York Many New Photos - ALLEN Family of Allentown, NY Bridges on Lackawanna & South-Western Railroad (PS&N) "New Memories for Old" by Kathleen Rockwell Lawrence - A Wellsville Gal write: "Christmas is Family Time.  Does it Matter if the family is one borrowed, with Love, for the Day?" MUST BE READ! ROCKVILLE CEMETERY aka/IRISH CEMETERY- Town of Belfast - Allegany County, NY PURPLE CEMETERY - Town of Belfast - Allegany County, NY John J. McGraw, Baseball Hall of Famer Returns to Wellsville on 25th Anniversary - 1917 A few Photos - TOWN OF CANEADEA Photo Gallery 1 Pitts/Strong Families - Photos & Information - of Friendship, NY, etc. 2 Class Photos - Friendship c.1935-39 October 2006 - Newsletter of Thelma Rogers Genealogical & Historical Society New Photo Gallery - Belfast Scenes - 9/28/06 1891 NY Railroad Commissioners Report-Bridge Strains & Engineering Specifications-Bradford Eldred & Cuba RR and Tonawanda Valley Discovering the History of Allegany County; Guess the Town with Hotel Updated Mount Pleasant Cemetery List - Houghton, Town of Caneadea, NY Map of OIL POOLS IN ALLEGANY COUNTY; from Reverse of bookcover, "Empire Oil" by John Herrick 9/27/06 Burials Added; Book 4-Embser Funeral Home, Wellsville; 1926-1929 Published 9/27/06 UNKNOWN Allegany County Location, #2 Cemetery & Farm Scene; Allegany County Location, Unknown; Can You Help? Friendship District School #4 & Nellie Strong, Teacher How is this Website Supported? Please Read by Pressing Here. A Few WELLSVILLE RACEWAY Stock Car Fan Photos Old Newspaper Found Again after 45 years Between Brick; Oil Pump Station Dismantling The Story of Charlie Wells - Oramel/Caneadea McCarty/Macken Landmark Gone; 1st In Old Timers Lore; Moving a Big Job Wellsville, 1955 Over 3000 names added to Canaseraga Cemetery, Town of Burns A few more School Items added - COUNTY SCHOOLS PAGE "WELLSVILLE'S WATER PROBLEM" Report of the Citizen's Committee of Investigation; Submitted to the Trustees, February 24th, 1913 Southern Tier Narrow Gage (by Bill Reddy-President of Shawmut Historical Society, 1983) pub 9/3/06 1939 Allentown Union School Yearbook - The Derrick Bolivar Central School - Student Directory 1937/38; Includes GRADUATES 1889 to 1937 9/3/06pub Whitney Family Cemetery - Town of Ossian (formerly Allegany County, now Livingston) 9/2/06 September 2006 Thelma Rogers Genealogical & Historical Society Newsletter 8/28/06 A couple of Racing Stories.....from 3rd Annual Cuba Lake Raceway Driver Luncheon Allen Cemetery (aka/Fisk Cemetery) Town of Allen Completed 8/14/06 St. Mary's Cemetery-Canaseraga, Town of Burns Completed 8/14/06 Obituary Page Updated 8/14/06 Caneadea Town Historian Newsletter - July/August/September 2006 New Photos added to "Town of Cuba Picture Gallery" 8/13/06 A few more names added to "Unknown Pictures"-World War I Veterans 8/13/06 “Bob” Garwood Plunges to His Death When Aeroplane Falls; 1918 Updates: OBITUARY PAGE Ex-Bolivar Man Brings Rig to South Cuba Knife Factory Employee Picture; Unknown Picture 7/23/06 "Discovering the history of Allegany County" by Ron Taylor A weekly column from "The Patriot", an Allegany County Newspaper (archives from past editions) Special Section to Celebrate The Bicentennial of Allegany County, NY 1806 - 2006 - PRESS HERE - New articles & Pictures Added Throughout the Year A New UNKNOWN PICTURE; Town in era 1900 unknown; help needed to identify. 7/22/06 Harry Wallace BRECKENRIDGE; Oilman, Pipeline Builder, Entrepreneur & Wellsville Resident; Biographical Notes 7/15/05 CONCH SHELL Told Time for Pioneers. The NORTON OIL WELL REVOLVING PUMPING POWER; W. H. Norton, Patentee, Wellsville, NY (adv.) "A Walk Around Rushford Town" by Ron Taylor - 7/12/06 Inavale Grange; from a speech given in 1986 by Howard Wightman The STILLMAN Family in The United States of America; 1896, Henry L. Jones of Wellsville, NY; 22 Pages of Indexed Surnames to over 300 pages of family lists.  Many families are listed connecting to Allegany County. Schools of the Town of Wirt Andover's Prest Opera House Block A Short Visit to the Richburg/Wirt Historical Society Museum Scoville Brown & Co.  (Wellsville Businesses, Past) 6/25/06 BALDWIN THEATRE DESTROYED BY FIERCE FIRE 6/25/06 Unknown Pictures - Help Requested New Pictures added to Andover Photo Gallery 6/18/06 Jermain Family of Short Tract Photo Gallery 1906-1922 pub. 6/17/06 New "Unknown Race Car Driver" c.1959-60's; Help Identify. CUBA LAKE RACEWAY, 3rd Annual Luncheon - "Thanks for the Memories" - JULY 26TH - notice "Hurricane Agnes Hits the Alfred Area"; including a letter written by Josephine Rawe during the June 1972 event week.... (They)Ate in 1852 Style to mark Willing Centennial -Allegany County Democrat article, 1952 June 2006 Newsletter - Thelma Rogers Genealogical Society; Wellsville, NY New Andover Supermarket to be Built, 1965 800+ NEW Obituaries; Barney Clipping Collection; INDEX PAGE "What To Eat and How To Prepare It" - published by Ladies Aid Society  Missionary Union First Methodist-Episcopal Church; Wellsville, NY (post 1935) Includes Membership List, Officers, Recipes, Etiquette, etc.  pub 5/22/06 1884 Business Directory - Whitesville, NY New Birds-Eye View of Whitesville (Independence Town Gallery) Bowler Memorial Cemetery - Town of Genesee (Shared Link With Painted Hills Website (Cemetery Page) TROWBRIDGE Family Cemetery - 1 stone; Town of Birdsall pub 5/21/06 World War I Veteran Photo; Unknowns, Help Needed; "My grandfather, Frank Ellsworth, is the one holding the flag.  Can any others be identified?" pub 5/21/06 4 NEW GENEALOGY SUMMARIES; Jared Page ELLIOTT Family, Lawrence SHIELDS Family, Luman Burrows ELLIOTT Family, & Moses KEMP Family; Thanks to Sue Takagi for submitting research; Over 100 Surnames are included. Allentown School finally will close & 1980 Souvenir Edition of "The Derrick" presented to Alumni June 7, 1980 Old Friendship Jail Needs Your Help "Town of Burns - A History" Celebrating the Sesquicentennial of Town of Burns 1826-1976 Name INDEX to accompany above, "Town of Burns, A History" Town of Caneadea Historian Newsletter; Apr-May-Jun 2006 published 4/25/06 Pioneer's Castle - A story of venture "into the west", perhaps now called Allegany.....pub. 4/23/06 French Cemetery - Town of West Almond (2 stones found) Beach/Union Cemetery - Town of Willing - List & Stone Pictures Update, Birdsall Cemetery Downing Cemetery - Town of Amity 4/17/06 Updated Straight Cemetery - Town of Willing MINUTES OF ALLEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION (1923-1960) Deaths - Town of Alma (1914-1920) - From Burial Permits - w/Cemetery of Burial Allentown, NY I.O.O.F. Picture, Information Requested UNKNOWN PICTURES - Help Needed, New Pictures added 4/16/06 Sarah Green Phillips; Teacher & Mother, Town of Alma Early Settler 4/10/2006 August 4, 1897 -Wellsville Telephone Exchange-List Bears in Town - 1913 Arrivals are hard to find Owner Exciting Runaway (1899 Wellsville) Schools of Town of Alma Cuba Cemetery - Town of Cuba Middaugh Cemetery - Town of Scio Andover Main Street Changes Forever; The Rebuilding Story w/Pictures 4/9/06 German Settlement Church - Picture; History Wanted The Simon Dornow Family Photo - The first settlers on the Dornow Road in 1857 The Start of the Celebration -1806-2006;  Bicentennial Birthday Party for Allegany County; Pictures, Program & Brief History of Allegany County. 4/7/2006 Black/Tucker Cemetery - Town of Ward 4/8/06 Phillips Creek-West Cemetery -Town of West Almond 4/8/06 2 New Pictures shared - W.A.G. Railroad - "The Coming & The Going" 4/8/06 Town of Ward Cemeteries -  Phillips Creek Cemetery      Pierce-Burdick Cemetery Schools of Town of Genesee - A pictorial History School 15, District 6 School-Vandermark Road - Town of Ward 4/5/06 Auto Racing History - Unknown "Car 55" Who Are You? 3 New "UNKNOWN" Pictures - Help Needed 4/5/06 Rawson Elmentary School (& Baptist Church)-Town of New Hudson 4/2/06 Wadsworth Hill Cemetery - Town of Ward A Little History of Voorhees Hill & School - Town of Wellsville Whitesville Banker is Wife, Mother "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) Holy Cross Cemetery - Town of Belfast Sacred Heart R.C. Cemetery - Town of Friendship Brainard Cemetery - Town of Belfast The Country Schools of Andover Andover School System - Historical Background Town of Alma, CIVIL WAR "Surviving Soldiers, Sailors & Marines and Widows, etc." Special Schedule of the 11th Census of U.S., 1890 "OUR WEST ALMOND, NY STORY" by Virginia Hargraves McKnight Burdick New Allen Family Photo c.1885 - Town of Alma Photo Gallery UPDATED Woodlawn Cemetery - Wellsville 3/22/06 Doty's Corner Cemetery - Town of Burns 3/22/06 Lot Owner List-BELLAMY CEMETERY-Town of Alma More New Pictures added to ANDOVER PICTURE GALLERY Land Ownership List - Belvidere Villa - From Library of Congress Records 3/17/06 Erie Railroad Track Layout in Andover,NY-1869 (Andover Picture Gallery page) Several New OBITUARIES posted to the page BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE COUNTY NEWSPAPERS- Roger Stillman; From: "Allegany County and Its People: A Centennial Memorial HISTORY OF ALLEGANY COUNTY,NY",  1896) Famed Old Estate Villa Belvidere May Be Broken Up (Prior to 1947) The Story of VILLA BELVIDERE by Lewis H. Thornton, 1917 Agriculture Statistics of Allegany County, 1870 Census Report Andover Business Directory - 1875 Tales of Ghostly Step, Secret Caves, Embellish Aged Manor of the Genesee Historic Belvidere - Restoration of a Mansion by Arch Merrill, c.1950 SALE OF ANTIQUES BRINGS HUNDREDS TO HISTORIC HOME Stories of the CHURCH Family of Belvidere - Exploration, The Mansion, Duels & The Pistols THE BURR/HAMILTON/CHURCH PISTOLS -A Part of Allegany County History - The pistols used in the Aaron Burr/Alexander Hamilton duel fought July 11, 1804 - Debate over pistols continues, but, things you should know. A New Invention - Two Andover Young Men Invent An Improved Curd Mill (1900) New Pictures - Town of Willing Pages Help requested; Unknown Picture Page - PETERSON Surname MILLS,  PIKE,  & HUSSONG FAMILIES - Northern Allegany County (genealogy info) Baptist Church Cemetery - Town of Friendship Hills (Family Cemetery) - Town of West Almond Updates, Andover Civil War Lists Thelma Rogers Genealogical & Historical Society March Newsletter & Echoes From the Archives Rude/Snyder (Shaffer Road) Cemetery - Town of Cuba The Hammond Cemetery aka/ Maple Dell Cemetery; Town of Cuba Picture Gallery of Belvidere Farms and Villa Belvidere; Fish Family Album c.1930-1932 Lane Cemetery  &  Dean Family Cemeteries - Town of Centerville Don't Forget the OBITUARIES PAGE; Updated 2/20/06 Picture of Hotel Wellsville added to Picture Gallery - Town of Wellsville Page Carrier Cemetery - Town of Wirt 1915 McGee Murder in Wellsville Andover Grist Mill - History of the end of an era. Honorable Asahel N. Cole, A founder of the Republican Party, Newspaper Man & Politician "Colorful Personalities of the Past" by Miriam Thornton Fisher - Wellsville and Area History Remarks Andover Sanitarium - Yesterday and Today First Letter (of 2) written by "Bert Baker" alias Albert St. Clair -1/4/1921 Looking for Family In Remembrance of Phoebe Snow (1900-1966) Railroad Era gone.........2/13/06 World War I Medal - Presented to "the Boys" coming home from Allegany County Belvidere Rural School Picture c.1926 - Town of Amity Photo Gallery Page 2/13/06 Double Murder/Suicide in 1940, Wellsville 1934 Allentown 7th & 8th Grade Class Picture with Names 2/10/06 More BAKER Family History - Andover News "Letter to the Editor" 5/5/1916 "C.D. Baker, Son of Dwight B. Baker Chosen for High Railroad Office" "YE GOLDEN TIME IN ANDOVER" - Another Intensely Interesting Letter from "Bert Baker" to His Andover Acquaintances - Andover News Feb 4, 1921 VOSSLER - Family of Christian & Agatha - History & Genealogy List (genealogy section) Town of Alma (Including Allentown, Alma & Pikeville) Picture Galleries updated 2/4/06 Wheeler Cemetery - Town of Wirt 2/4/06 The Ossian Giant - Town of Grove Story 2/3/06 New picture added-UNKNOWN PICTURE PAGE-Allentown School Picture Maps of Formation -Allegany County & Towns of the County St. Mary's Cemetery - Canaseraga, Town of Burns published 1/31/06 Town of Caneadea Historian Newsletter; Jan-Feb-Mar 2006 published 1/31/06 Update - Alfred,NY--In the Revolutionary War; War records of some.........published 1/31/06 Alfred,NY--In the Spanish-American War published 1/31/06 Swain Hill/Boyd Hill Cemetery List; Town of Grove Republished/Updated 1/30/06 William Marian Woodruff, Woodruff Cheese Company Waver Family Cemetery - Town of West Almond Grunder Family Cemetery - Town of Grove Newspaper Archives: Andover Free Library Website now has Andover Advertiser & Andover News Newspapers ONLINE to view; Must have Acrobat Viewer for pdf files. Woodruff/Nusbickel Cheese Factory; Town of Granger Update - Hardy's Corners Cemetery with Pictures - Town of Rushford published 1/27/06 Rogers Historical Society & Dyke Street Museum: February Newsletter;  2006 Meeting Schedule Many from Andover owe Hattie "Mother" Eggleston for their lives County Line Cemetery List - Town of Centerville Jersey Hill Fire Tower & Information Request - Town of Birdsall Sayers/Cloverleaf Cemetery - Town of New Hudson "First Burying Ground" Cemetery - Town of Rushford Sortore Cemetery - Town of Friendship Barney Cemetery aka/Brewers Corners Cemetery - Town of Grove Basswood Hill Cemetery aka/St. Paul's Church Cemetery - Town of Allen St. Mary's Mission of Birdsall, NY;  Demolished "by Accident" Jersey Hill Cemetery - Town of Birdsall Birdsall Cemetery - Town of Birdsall Sunnyview Cemetery, aka/German Settlement Cemetery - Town of Grove Memorial Tribute Page - Melba Mickle, "KED-620" Andover Fire Department Picture Pages Updated 1/15/06 New Veterans List: Andover Viet Nam Era List Andover Veterans Updates & Additions: "Buried In Andover Veterans List" White Cemetery - Town of Allen The Almond Pea Vinery; Seventh in series of Articles from Almond Historical Society Newsletter Archives Ira Stillman, Inventor; Sixth in series of Articles from Almond Historical Society Newsletter Archives The 1940's Almond Dam Story; Fifth in series of Articles from Almond Historical Society Newsletter Archives Trio Builds Airplane, c.1931; Fourth in series of Articles from Almond Historical Society Newsletter Archives The Almond Telephone Company / MABEL MCINTOSH Third in series of Articles from Almond Historical Society Newsletter Archives Almond's Legacy: Helene Phelan; Second in series of Articles from Almond Historical Society Newsletter Archives "The Carrie Haskins Woodruff Autograph Book"; First in series of Articles from Almond Historical Society Newsletter Archives Large Addition to HUME Town Picture Gallery; submitted by Jim Gelser The First Settlement of Andover, NY; Journal written in 1880 by Seth Baker, contradicts many things written in past history books in the county. Includes personal contact with first settler of County, Nathaniel Dike and many early pioneers of Friendship, Alfred, Almond as well as Andover.  MUST READ JOURNAL!  Be prepared, it is presented in the pioneer's own writing style and original words used have not been edited. Allen (Fisk) Cemetery - Town of Allen,NY; 1/7/2006 Great Town of Hume Picture Gallery - Wiscoy, Rossburg, Fillmore, Hume Pictures Submitted by Jim Gelser 1/7/06 Headstone Picture Gallery - Mt. Hope Cemetery, Town of West Almond The HANN (Hand) Homestead of Andover/Elm Valley 12/29/2005 Updated Material added: Tonawanda Valley & Cuba Railroad 12/24/05 LIST of 800 Obituaries we have on File available for the asking..........Northern Allegany County, From files of Margaret Hodnett. Horse Racing in Andover Pine Grove Cemetery - Fillmore, NY; Town of Hume ANOTHER TRIBUTE TO WHITEY; The FOAR (fans of auto racing) SCORE club in Buffalo has just announced the list of 2006 inductees New Obituaries added........McMurtry Family; and,   Purdy, Elbert A. (1857-1959) Last Living Boat Pilot, Genesee Valley Canal The Old Wellsville Fairgrounds 1888-1904; Brief History & PICTURES of the Old Grounds and a few of the New Grounds; From Collection of Donald Baldwin. Echoes from the Archives, December 2005 - Reprint from Thelma Roger Genealogical and Historical Society Newsletter Obituary - Phillips, Jesse S. (d. 11-6-1954) formerly Andover, Independence; Exceptional Achiever Weaver Settlement Cemetery - Town of Granger; List of Burials & Tombstone Pictures 12/9/05 Andover Deaths; Unknown burial locations..... Bellamy Cemetery - Town of Angelica, NY The LEVER Family of Andover, NY The Allegany County Fair - A Summary History Mount Hope Cemetery - Town of West Almond, NY Holy Cross Cemetery - Fillmore, Town of Hume, NY EAST CANEADEA CEMETERY- Town of Caneadea, NY Updated-Names Added- Chamberlain Cemetery - Town of Belfast,NY PODONQUE CEMETERY -Town of Rushford, NY McCALL CEMETERY -Town of Rushford,NY Updated & Names Added: Canaseraga Cemetery 11/26/05 Riverside Cemetery - Town/Village of Belfast, NY 11/25/05 Pictures Added to Galleries 11/23/05:  TOWN OF GENESEE GALLERY  - PS&N RAILROAD GALLERY "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 Rogers Cemetery - Town of Centerville, NY Cadwell's Corners Cemetery - Town of Centerville, NY Centerville Cemetery - Town of Centerville, NY Ice Harvesting and History & Local Ice History in Allegany County BATES Cemetery - New List & History of Cemetery & Pictures Several Additions to OBITUARY PAGE Biography & Obituary-Dean, Charles & Florence ALGER Cemetery List - Town of Hume, NY The Legacy of Oliver E. VARS of Andover, NY - His Businesses & Family DEAN LAYFIELD - Stock Car Driver 1939 - 1960 Biography of Vial Thomas - Town of Angelica, NY Biography of Hamilton Ward 1829-1898 ; Attorney, State Supreme Court Judge, State Attorney General & a Representative to U.S. Congress from Town of Amity Wiscoy Cemetery - Town of Hume,NY 11/11/05 Riley Allen Biography, Part II - Allentown Pioneer 11/9/05 Erie's Narrow Gauge - The Laying of the Third Track - 1879 Newspaper Article-Erie Railroad History Wells Elmer Cemetery-Town of Hume, NY Lattice Bridge Cemetery (aka/Fox Cemetery & Leets Family Cemetery-Town of Hume, NY Hume Cemetery List - Town of Hume,NY 11/7/05 Answers and More Questions on UNKNOWN PICTURE - Civil War - Is this Andrew Pierce? Old Burns aka/Bull Road Cemetery - Town of Burns 11/3/05 "THE EFFECT OF STRIKING OIL"-A Village of Two Hundred Inhabitants Increasing to Five Thousand in Six Months New Material added - Tonawanda Valley & Cuba Railroad Company History Page 11/2/05 Dean Family Info & Tombstone Pictures; Farnum Cemetery, West Almond,NY Town of Caneadea Historian's Newsletter November Newsletter of THELMA ROGERS GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Wellsville,NY) Town of Independence Gallery, startup; Cow Palace History Town of Willing Photo Gallery, (including Gabby Hayes) Scio Sesquicentennial of 1973 - "Scio Notes Birthday" World War I Veteran Records & Pictures - Andover,NY Civil War Veterans from Andover, NY - Compiled by William A. Greene Cemeteries Updated 10/20/05:   Maplewood (Alfred);   Hillside (Andover) Stephen T. Bartle Post #183, G.A.R. Membership List Town of Genesee Photo Gallery, Little Genesee & Ceres Town of Bolivar Photo Gallery, Village & Town Town of Wirt Photo Gallery, Including Richburg Interesting HISTORY of Tonawanda Valley & Cuba Railroad - Newspaper Tidbits (1880s) Town of Scio Picture Gallery, (Started 10/16/05 & on-going....open for submittals) Dam Story - "Dam rescued 'hill' town from obscurity"-Rushford,NY 1974 - CUBA LAKE PAVILION CLOSING Town of Cuba Photo Gallery, Enhanced Newspaper excerpts on TONAWANDA VALLEY & CUBA RAILROAD (1880's) Brief History - Baker Brothers Hardware of Andover, NY Town of Amity (Belmont/Belvidere Areas) Picture Gallery-Enhanced 10/15/05 Andover Picture Gallery (Started 10/15/05 & on-going....open for submittals) Mystery Murders at Belfast Canal Warehouse-April 20, 1910 A Story of Angelica,NY & Alpha Morse, Pioneer Businessman......... 1st Car in Allegany County - Steam Powered Allen Steinheim Museum at Alfred University - "Oldest Natural History Museum" The Bells of Alfred, NY--Stories of Alfred University's Carillon--"Only documented counterfeit bells in the world" A couple more ERIE Railroad Pictures added 10/12/05 The "Fanning Mill" by Richard Palmer; an interesting story for everyone of a tool very much in use on the "olden" farm 1920 Cyclone Pictures - Town of Andover 10/12/05 Oil Creek & Oil Creek Reservoir; Cuba,NY - Waterways & Water Transportation Anyone for Stagecoaches in Allegany County? Laying the First Brick in Paving Wellsville's Main Street - 1900 10/1/05 Twins Attending Allentown School (1940) The New Wellsville Fair Grounds and the Driving Park (1905) October Newsletter - Thelma Rogers Historical & Genealogical Society (Wellsville)9/30/05 Will & Obituary of (Amasa) Lewis Jones of Wellsville, NY Family Information: John Adam FOLAND of Alma,NY Related Surnames: SIDNEY, JONES, BIXBY - Genealogy Page "The Name of Canaseraga Only Left" - "Canaseraga Swept by Fierce Flames" (Town of Burns, 1895) (Genealogy Page) JOHNSON/CUDDING FAMILIES IN BOLIVAR,NY THE RICHBURG DISCOVERY WELL - The Story of the well that opened the Richburg Field; Names from Wirt, Alma, Allentown, Bolivar & Wellsville The Duke & Norton Flowing Wells The Mystery Well WILLIS family Obituaries added at "Obituary" page Bolivar's Buttrick Chapter 109, O.E.S. First Organized in Allegany Masonic District; Melvina Prince Allen 1st Worthy Matron Complete List of Woodlawn Cemetery - Wellsville,NY First Editor Tells Story of Founding of (Bolivar) Breeze in 1891 Remembering the Genesee Valley Canal by Richard Palmer Historic CHAMBERLAIN Cemetery List & few pictures-Early 1800's-Town of Belfast The Stories of "The Last 2 Living Civil War Heroes from Allegany County,NY" (d. 1939 & 1941) Obituary-John Osborne Taylor, father of O.P. Taylor d.1885 2 Added Pictures, SHAWMUT (PS & N RR) Restored Cars at Angelica Fairgrounds Edward Seaman Post #481, G.A.R. - Andover, NY 9/5/05 CAPT. WHEELER HAKES POST #261, G.A.R. Jeremiah Hatch POST #241, G.A.R. -Honoree History G.A.R. Posts of Allegany County; Includes Post Name Honorees brief military records TOWN OF ALMA BIOGRAPHIES - SURNAMES: ALLEN, ANDERSON, BARNES, COYLE, ELLIOTT, MCCUTCHEON, PHILLIPS, RUSSELL, STEVENS, TUTTLE, VANCE, VINCENT, WILSON, YORK Marshall Phillips Post, G.A.R. - Town of Alma, NY; 1889-1893 Wellsville,NY "DEXTER POST, G.A.R." HISTORY, MEMBER LIST & Pictures 9/2/05 Wellsville,NY's BALDWIN BLOCK & Short History of Wellsville Banks 9/1/05 "ANOTHER HORROR.  Peter Hart, One of the Best Known Oil Well Shooters --"His Body Blow to Atoms........" A tale of Nitroglycerine in 1891 Obituaries  8/22/05 The BLACKMAN Family of Allegany County; Thelma Roger Genealogical & Historical Society Sept/2005 Newsletter Vincent Biographies; History of Vincent in America-Joshua & Benjamin Vincent in Almond, Alma/Scio; and related families. Vol 1, Issue 10 The Story of Miss Daisy - August Digest Biography of C.H. "Charlie" Simmons - "His Energetic Life Erected His Monument" 8/15/05 "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--MORE TO FOLLOW, CHECK BACK IF YOU ENJOY) A few more tombstone pictures of ALLENTOWN CEMETERY 7/23/05 Help requested on Teacher - UNKNOWN PIX The Story of "Miss Daisy"; Friendship's 1881 Silsby Steamer saga continues...a community uniting event..."History is TRULY alive in Friendship!" 7/17/05 Unknown Picture; Identified as Belfast Training Class 7/12/05 April/May/June 2005 Historian's Newsletter - Town of Caneadea 7/6/06 - Includes Biography of Abel Nicholson Oldest Business Block in Bolivar,NY in 1941 First Catholic Service Held in Richburg Opera House 1st Subscriber to Bolivar Breeze- George A. Beers Union Cemetery-Bishopville - Town of Almond,NY Bishopville Cemetery #2 - Town of Almond,NY 7/4/05 Cottrell/McHenry/Palmer Cemetery - Town of Almond,NY Joseph Rathbun Cemetery - Town of Almond,NY Moses Stevens - Biography Sketch Rathbun Cemetery & Stephen Major Cemetery - Town of Almond,NY Old Abandoned, Forgotten Cemeteries Provide Hobby for Two Almond Men Karr Valley-FERRY/MCHENRY Cemetery-Town of Almond Farnum Cemetery - Town of West Almond Typical Glycerin Wagon of the Early Days Oil Boom Highlights - Richburg History "Happy Jack" --360 lb. Cop!! Early Communion Class Pictured in Front of St. Mary's Hall - Bolivar,NY c.1904 with Names... Wright Cemetery - Town of West Almond 1830's Burials through 1800's 6/29/05 1820 Pioneers Held First Methodist Services Here; 1941 Bolivar Breeze Story Allen Family Pictures added - Town of Alma,NY Ancient History of the Stearns Family Auto Racing History Pages Enhanced 6/25/05 CUBA VALLEY POINT AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL SOCIETY'S FAIR AND RACES held on SMITH'S DRIVING PARK, CUBA, ALLEGANY CO., NY Click Here for 2005 Racer's of 50's-60's REUNION Unknown Picture Page - New Pictures added... Bailey Hill Cemetery - Town of Almond, NY 6/23/05 McHenry Valley Cemetery (Behind Stephens)-Town of Almond, NY History of Almond Union of Churches Request for Information - HOOKER CEMETERY Last Civil War Vet in Wellsville - Obituary & Biography of Everitt VanNostrand Alfred Civil War List 6/13/05   (You are presently on Page 1B of "What's New") INDEX OF "WHAT'S NEW" ARCHIVES To: page 1 What's New (current) To: page 1C, What's New Archives 10/5/06 - 12/31/07) To: page 1B, What's New Archives (6/13/05-10/4/06) To: page 1A, What's New Archives (1/30/05-6/13/05) TO: page 2, What's New Archives  (older) TO: page 3, What's New Archives (older) TO: page 4, What's New Archives  (older)

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