General
Town-Wide Resources
1829
Map of Land Plots: from Burr's
Atlas of New York, Simon DeWitt Surveyors General, at Jefferson
County GenWeb
1855
Land Owners Map: from
the map collection of the Library of Congress,
contributed by Mark
A. Wentling.
1864
Town Land Owners Map: from Beers Atlas, at Jefferson
County GenWeb
1887
Town Landowners Map:
(1MB
file)
from E. Robinson's 1888 atlas of Jefferson County,
contributed by Mark
A. Wentling.
Child's
Business Directory, 1866-1867: composite images
of the actual directory pages, contributed
by Mark
A. Wentling.
Child's
History of Town of Hounsfield (1890): transcribed
by Shirley Farone
(off-site)
see
also the Every-Name
Index to Child's History of Hounsfield,
compiled
by Mark
A. Wentling.
Child's
Business Directory, 1890,
at Jefferson
County GenWeb
see
also the Every-Name
Index to Child's Business Directory of Hounsfield,
compiled
by Mark
A. Wentling.
Contributors
to Evert's 1878 History of Hounsfield: indicates
occupation, residence, and period of residence,
contributed by
Mark A. Wentling.
Edgar
C. Emerson's History of the Town of Hounsfield:
from
his book "Our County & Its People"
(1898), contributed by Mark
A. Wentling.
Farms
in Hounsfield, 1918:
map published by The American Agriculturalist and
hosted at Jefferson
County GenWeb
see
also the Index
to Farms: arranged by name of owner; search
the "Town" column for "Houndsfield."
Fires
in Hounsfield!: covers
primarily Sackets Harbor, contributed by
Mark A. Wentling.
Hough's
History of Town of Hounsfield (1854):
searchable
page scans of original book, by Google. (off-site)
, or read
the transcribed version by Shirley
Farone (off-site)
see
also
Master Index to Hounsfield History for a
list of names included.
National
Register of Historic Places Sites: great places
to experience Hounsfield history and culture,
contributed
by Mark
A. Wentling.
Pictures
of Pre-1865 Hounsfield Residents
from the Jefferson
County, NY, Pioneer Portraits Project.
Camps
Mills
Camp's
Ditch of 1832, A Pioneer Water Project:
articles and photos recalling Hounsfield's earliest canal,
contributed by Mark
A. Wentling.
Camps
Mills School No. 5: recent photo, 19th-century maps,
and recollections from former teachers,students, and visitors,
contributed
by Mark
A. Wentling.
COBB
Family: descendants of Joseph Cobb and Margaret
Soules, and their homes, contributed
by Mark
A. Wentling.
see
also the Cobb
Home Farm (c.1815?), contributed by Mark
A. Wentling.
see
also Cobb
Farm Cemetery:
photos, directions and description, of this cemetery on
sulpher Springs Road in Camps Mills, at nnygenealogy.com
(off-site)
Daniel
FAWDREY Home (bef. 1855),
corner
of Fawdrey Road & Old Salt Point Road, Camp's Mills.
JENKINS
Family: residents of
Camps Mills since 1942, contributed by
Mark A. Wentling.
see
also the Jenkins
Home, contributed by Mark
A. Wentling
MEMBERY-COBB
Home Farm (c.1815?): one of the finest limestone
houses in the region occupied by early English settlers,
contributed by Mark
A. Wentling.
Membery
Cemetery:
photos, directions and description of this cemetery on sulpher
Springs Road in Camps Mills, at nnygenealogy.com
(off-site)
Mill
Creek Sights & Sounds: images
and videos,
contributed by Mark
A. Wentling.
ORCHARD
Family: early residents of Camps Mills, contributed
by Robert & Mary
Martin.
see
also the Orchard
Home, contributed by Mary
Martin and Mark
A. Wentling
Chestnut
Ridge
Aaron
Holden & Orilla Root Descendants:
genealogy of these early settlers of the Chestnut Ridge
neighborhood, and their descendants, with photographs; surnames
include Arnold,
Austin, Barker, Bennett, Bibby, Brooks, Burrows, Clayton,
Coffin, Crago, DeWitt, Kinney, Lawrence, Martin, Meyer,
Orchard, Snell, Stokes, Taylor, Westcott,
Weston,
at Family
Files Genealogy.
(off-site)
East
Hounsfield
Child's
Business Directory, 1866-1867: composite images
of the actual directory pages, contributed
by Mark
A. Wentling.
East
Hounsfield Christian Church: its history, location
map, photo, and aerial view, contributed
by Mark
A. Wentling.
Elisha
Matteson Family Bible: page images and transcriptions
from the family bible of Elisha Matteson and his wife Chloe
Austin, who settled in East Hounsfield in 1807; surnames
include Chappell, Field, Green, Ryder
and Weaver. (off-site)
Old
Half Way House:
how
a tavern became a library, reprinted from the Watertown
Daily Times
Field's
Settlement
Fields
Settlement Cemetery:
photo, directions and description of this cemetery on the
Old Rome State Road, at nnygenealogy.com
(off-site)
Andrew
SMITH: biography
and portrait from Evert's 1878 History of Jefferson
County, New York.
Galloo
Islands
Galloo
Island Lighthouse: erected in 1820 and rebuilt
in 1867, recently sold at auction as surplus federal property,
contributed by Mark A. Wentling.
Includes a complete list of former keepers.
Johnson
1883 Autograph Book: an
index to names and notes from Irene
Johnson's 1883 autograph book, signed by friends
and relatives while she lived at Galloo
Island Lighthouse, contributed by Mark
A. Wentling
Lewis
Humphrey Roberts, 1831-1915:
details
on this early Galloo Island resident and his descendants,
on the website of great-great-granddaughter Michelle
Stone.
(off-site)
Jewettsville
Samuel
Guthrie Home (c.1820?): home of the inventor of
chloroform and percussion caps.
Early
Jewettsville Remembered: excerpted
from a biography of Dr. Samuel Guthrie.
History
of Jewettsville,
reprinted from the Watertown
Daily Times
Jewettsville
Schoolhouse No. 2, recent photo, map, and list of
ovber 100 reunion attendees from 1935, reprinted
from the Watertown
Daily Times
Muskalonge
Muskalonge
Cemetery:
photos, directions and description of this cemetery on Evans
Road, at nnygenealogy.com
(off-site)
Muskellunge
Schoolhouse No. 3: recent photo, history, and
anecdote from Shirley
Farone, plus 1864 map!
Purpura
Corners
Purpura
Corners Schoolhouse:
recent photos and early location maps,
contributed by Mark
A. Wentling.
Sackets
Harbor
1813
Map of "Operations at Sackett's Harbor":
depicting village defenses and movements of British invasion
forces, from Lossing's fieldbook.
1814
Map of Sackets Harbor: showing military defenses
and U.S. Navy fleet deployments, from Lossing's fieldbook.
1864
Sackets Harbor Village Land Owners Map:
from Beers Atlas, at Jefferson
County GenWeb
1887
Sackets Harbor Village Landowners Map:
(570KB
file)
from E. Robinson's 1888 atlas of Jefferson County,
contributed by Mark
A. Wentling.
Battles
of Sackett's Harbor: Soldiers, Officers & Descendants:
a place to learn more about your ancestors and to connect
with other researchers, contributed
by Mark
A. Wentling.
Business
Directory, 1862:
from a Watertown newspaper, contributed
by Mark
A. Wentling.
Business
Directory, 1866-1867: composite images of the actual
directory pages, contributed
by Mark
A. Wentling.
Business
Directory, 1867-1868, at Jefferson
County GenWeb
Business
Directory of Sackets Harbor, 1894: from Haddock's
"Growth of a Century," contributed
by Mark
A. Wentling.
Camp
Family Bible Records: from the Bible of George Hale
Camp, contributed by
Mark A. Wentling.
Camp's
Company of Artillery: defenders
of the village during the first battle of the War of 1812
there, includes history of the company, complete muster
roll, and signatures of each person, contributed
by Mark
A. Wentling.
Christ
Episcopal Church: its
history and founding members, contributed
by Mark
A. Wentling.
Dyer
Burnham House (c.1837): West Washington St., Sackets
Harbor
Eveleigh
House, history of the Civil War-era hotel on West
Main St. that burned in 1920.
Every-Name
Index to Brennan's "Images of America: Sackets Harbor"
compiled
by Mark
A. Wentling.
Fires!,
1838-1894: covers
primarily Sackets Harbor, contributed by
Mark A. Wentling.
The
First Battle of Sackets Harbor: Franklin B.
Hough's 1854 account of the first conflict of the War of
1812 in U.S. territory, contributed
by Mark
A. Wentling.
G.A.R.
Post #360 Memorial Day 1906 Programme of Observances,
contributed by
Mark A. Wentling.
The
Great Rope Carry of 1814: an exhaustive investigation
into the carrying of the anchor cable for the frigate Superior
from Sandy Creek to Sackets Harbor during the War of 1812,
and of subsequent commemorations of the event, contributed
by Blaine Bettinger.
Horse
Island Lighthouse: a complete list of former keepers,
courtesy of Great Lakes Lighthouse Research.
Lakeside
Cemetery:
photo, directions and description of this cemetery in Sackets
Harbor, at nnygenealogy.com
(off-site)
see
also Lakeside
Cemetery Photographs: pictures of plot stones
for several early families buried in the oldest cemetery
at Sackets Harbor,
contributed by Mark
A. Wentling
Madison
Barracks, 1940-1942: memories of school and work
during WWII, contributed
by Florence
Secor.
Masonic
Order History, 1805-1894 & Union Hotel,
contributed by
Mark A. Wentling.
Military
Cemetery:
photo, directions and description of this cemetery in Sackets
Harbor, at nnygenealogy.com
(off-site)
New
Orleans, (1815-1884): a War of 1812 frigate
at Navy Point, contributed
by Mark
A. Wentling.
Pickering
House & Cottage (c.1817): an early home on West
Main St. that now functions as the village museum.
Postcard
Gallery: vintage photos of places past and present
Presbyterian
Church:
its history, early trustees, and centennial celebration.
George
Sacket House (1839), Broad St., Sackets Harbor,
contributed by Mark
A. Wentling.
Sackets
Harbor Central School: official
site of the only public school serving western Hounsfield
today.
Sackets
Harbor Union School: list
of students attending the Spring 1856 session, plus photo
of Class of 1890, with biographical notes.
Telephone
Directory, Summer 1925: indicates
person's name and street of residence,
contributed
by Mark
A. Wentling.
Union
Hotel (1817) & the Masonic Order,
contributed by
Mark A. Wentling.
Woolsey
Mansion a.k.a. "Camp Haven" (1816): home
of War of 1812 hero Comm. Melancthon T. Woolsey, village
figurehead Walter B. Camp, and recently the residence of
Addison Wardwell.
World
War I Veterans from Hounsfield and Sackets Harbor:
taken from the memorial entitled "Jefferson
County in the World War," compiled by George Reeves
in 1920, contributed by Mark
A. Wentling.
Stowell's
Corners
Merrick
M. BATES:
biography
and portrait from Evert's 1878 History of Jefferson
County, New York.
Aaron
BLODGETT:
a
biography of this early settler, written in 1859 by Solon
Massey.
Contributors
to Evert's 1878 History of Hounsfield: indicates
occupation and period of residencelots of Stowell's
Corners folk!, contributed by
Mark A. Wentling.
MANLEY
Family: early 19th-century
Yankee residents of Stowell's Corners, contributed
by Mark
A. Wentling.
see
also a list of Manley
Family Land Transactions, transcribed by Alice
Corbett
Anson
POTTER & Abby FALL:
biographies
and portraits from Evert's 1878 History of Jefferson
County, New York.
Sulpher
Springs
John
A. HADDOCK:
in his own words the author of one
of Jefferson County's centennial histories describes his
family background and boyhood days in Sulpher Springs,
contributed by Mary
Martin.
Samuel
Resseguie Farm (c.1840), Parker
Road, Sulpher Springs.
Sulpher
Springs Cemetery:
photos, directions and description of this cemetery on Sulpher
Springs Road, at nnygenealogy.com
(off-site)
Sulpher
Springs School No. 12: recent photo, 19th-century
location map, and recollections from a former teacher, contributed
by Mark
A. Wentling.
Sulpher
Springs United Methodist Church:
its history and members, contributed
by Mark
A. Wentling.
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