Items of Interest

• HONEOYE OIL!! 2 Articles from rare microfilm of Allegany County Republican newspaper; "OIL CERTAIN !" & "OIL DRIPPINGS - HERE, THERE & ELSEWHERE"; 11/22/1877

• ALMA COMETS Baseball Team - Photos

• Early Allentown; Recollection of Ca.1840 when only one log house stood

• 1893 Photo & Names of Students - Alma School #1

• Trolley Line to Allentown

• ALLENTOWN SCHOOL - 1933 NEW ADDITION BROCHURE

• ALLENTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL BUILDING, 2009

• ALLENTOWN EXPLORER SCOUT CANOE TRIP, circa 1949

• ALMA Has It's New Snow Plow....1/18/1926

• Schoff, Henry (d. 5/12/1876) Run over by his own team!

• Memoirs/Fire Scrap Book of a former Allentown Chief, Lewis Swarthout

• Many photos and names added - Allentown Rebekahs and Odd Fellows Organizations ca. 1951-7

• Two New Photos of Allentown Boy Scouts & Cub Scout Pack #41, ca. 1949

• Cookbook by Allentown/Scio area Native; Photo brings Re-connection with Allegany County.

• News Notes from Alma - 1885; from Allegany County Democrat

• Who Was Robert Riley Russell? Town of Alma Farm; Photos of Farm House, Ice Harvest from Pond & Horses

• Recollections of People - Town of Alma, NY; A ca.1970s Interview of Earl Cady (1889-1985) by Emma Lou Cleveland King

"THE HONEOYE WELL"; Sometimes oil was elusive; This is a story of one such well....The early years before the "big strike" didn't come until the next year...from Allegany Democrat, 1878

Dec 17-Dec 23, 2008 - Allentown Union Free School 1933-34 1st, 2nd, 3rd Grades

Passing Through Alma - 1990 Newspaper article...

"TAYLORS AND QUICKS GIVE ALMA HILL NOVEL ROLE OF HAVING DOUBLE FIFTH GENERATION FAMILY TIES" (1948)
 

ALMA IS DRY!!!  The Fight Was A Bitter One;  And License Will Be No More!

The Alma Ice Cave & White Pebbles

Photo of Allentown School Class taken ca. 1900 in front of Wood Schoolhouse

Allentown Produces Many Race Drivers--Gene "Gino" Swarthout, 1960s-early 1970s Race Driver

Civil War Pension Papers from the Pension File of JAMES L. MESLER OF ALMA, NY; names mentioned: Wyckoff, George, Dickerson, Wilcox, Quick, Rocktaschel and many more....

HISTORY OF THE ALMA CHURCH  by Bernice Dickerson Hoagland; Near an end as a church?

Allentown - RED HOT;  Allentown, the metropolis of the Allegany Oil Field, is making fast its reputation as an oil town.

Employee Loyalty at Alma Gas Pump Station - Empire Gas & Fuel Newsletter, 1956 on 75th Anniversary

BIOGRAPHY OF MAY ALLEN BOYD - from "Who's Who of Allegany County, NY" 1937-1938

EASTMAN KODAK USED LOCAL OILMAN FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING; PHOTO COLOR IN ca.1940

FIRE TOWER ON ALMA HILL; Peak Populated Height in State
 

AMONG THE OIL WELLS (1883) Letter to the Editor about Allentown

30 Cars of Bark from Alma - 1906

The Scio & Allentown Telephone Co...........1881

Bradford, Eldred & Cuba Railroad Timetable; Effective 12/29/1890.

Roaring Tornado Hits 106 Settlement; Baby Carried 300' through the Air; Denning, Blue Families--May 4, 1942.

DEATH IN THE FLAMES - OLD MAN BURNED IN HIS BED - (Nelson Budd - 1882)

"Passing Through Allentown" - Wellsville Daily Reporter article, 1980's

1938-39 Allentown 3rd & 4th Grade Photo

1939 Allentown Union Free School Yearbook - The Derrick

1980  -- "FINAL EDITION" --The DERRICK; issued at last Alumni Banquet held in School Building

SCHOOLS of the Town of Alma

MINUTES OF ALLEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION (1923-1960)

Allentown School finally will close & 1980 Souvenir Edition of "The Derrick" presented to Alumni June 7, 1980

Play Advertisement, 1918 Benefit to Red Cross - I.O.O.F. Hall (Tap for Larger Image)

Death Records w/Burial Locations; Town of Alma 1914-1920

Twins Attending Allentown School (1940)

Historical Writings of Emma Lou King  --Allentown History-- Father of the Allegany Oil Fields-- STATE’S RICHEST FIVE ACRES OF OIL LAND-- The Alma Wildcat Well--
Oil Pioneers Who Went West

"BITS & PIECES" - of Oil, Timber & Development of Industry in the Area; Letters & Writings submitted by Peter Sprague of Cuba,NY.  7/27/05

The Mystery Well

The Duke & Norton Flowing Wells

THE RICHBURG DISCOVERY WELL - The Story of the well that opened the Richburg Field; Names from  Scio, Wirt, Alma, Allentown, Bolivar & Wellsville

New Principal at Allentown Union Free School, 1941

Marshall Phillips Post, G.A.R. - Town of Alma, NY; 1889-1893

Melvina Prince Allen 1st Worthy Matron & Buttrick Chapter 109, O.E.S. (Bolivar) First Chapter Organized in Allegany Masonic District

AN OIL BOOM TOWN AT THE CROSSROADS 

By May Allen Boyd, Descendent of the Original Allen Family - Early Allentown Recollections

1934 Allentown 7th & 8th Grade Class Picture with Names 2/10/06

The Alma & Willing Plank Road Company Story

TALES OF A WESTERN NEW YORK BOOM TOWN "It seems so long ago that we lived in Allentown and yet, not long ago at all... ..."

‘Secret’ Mine Still Eludes Allegany Man A Seneca Legend; Elmer Watson Story  

"ALLENTOWN" August 12, 1881 -A Look "Before Oil Boom" - Historical Observation.

Early History - Alma Community

Allentown's Proud Heritage A Teacher's summary of History of School, People & Community.

Family Information: John Adam FOLAND of Alma,NY Related Surnames: SIDNEY, JONES, BIXBY - Genealogy Page

 c.1883 OIL Section Map - Allegany Field Petrolia, Alma, Allentown, Pikeville, Richburg, Bolivar, South Bolivar, Little Genesee, Carver, Ceres, and More!

Sarah Green Phillips; Teacher & Mother, Town of Alma Early Settler

Town of Alma, CIVIL WAR "Surviving Soldiers, Sailors & Marines and Widows, etc." Special Schedule of the 11th Census of U.S., 1890

ALLENTOWN I.O.O.F. PAGES ; Picture, History

 

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. 5/5/06

Various Photos of Allentown, Alma

PICTURE GALLERY - TOWN OF ALMA

New Pictures added to these galleries as time permits; Contributions of pictures are welcome; contact by email: Ron Taylor

 

Use the page numbers below to navigate between pages of pictures
PAGE 1 Alma & Allentown Views & Miscl.	PAGE 2 Stewart Photography Panorama of Allentown	PAGE 3 Post Office-Allentown; Miscl Views	PAGE 4 Allentown Methodist Church History & Pictures	PAGE 5 Tons of Old Pictures, Ass't.	Page 6 Allen Family
Page 7 Miscl Views & Tidbits of Interest

SPECIAL PICTURE GALLERIES - TOWN OF ALMA

•  Memories of Allentown - A Picture Gallery from the Don Adams Collection (4 Sections)

   

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• PHOTO ALBUM of Ray Payne - Curator,Pioneer Oil Museum in Bolivar (4 pages of over 100 photos - A few of Allentown)

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• A PHOTO Collection of Alma Memorabilia -In Memory of EMMA LOU CLEVELAND KING