Friday, September 11, 2015

Farm Memories

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By John E. Calhoun  The following are several paragraphs about various aspects of farm life during my childhood and young adult years.  ...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Intern Update: Town Support of the Poor in the Early 1800s

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By intern Ryan Bachman. On April 8, 1799, the Cornwall Board of Selectmen voted to pay John Peck $11.49 for boarding Ann Olcott, “a poor c...
Saturday, August 22, 2015

Intern Update: American Society for Meliorating the Condition of the Jews

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By intern Ryan Bachman. Receipt for donation of $58.50 given by the Auxiliary Society of Cornwall to the American Society in New York, 1...
Friday, August 14, 2015

The Scoville Farm and James Henry Moser's Cornwall Sketches

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James Henry Moser, Cream Hill, March 1882 Martha's Album , Collection of Cornwall Historical Society The Scoville Farm dates back...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Intern Update: The Ousatonic Canal

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By Ryan Bachman.  By the early 1820s, as the Erie Canal stretched across western New York, communities all around the United States beca...
Friday, August 7, 2015

Intern Update: Law and Order League

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By CHS intern Ryan Bachman. The vault is full of records from various Cornwall social clubs and organizations from over the past two centuri...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Intern Update: Early Trips to NYC

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By intern Ryan Bachman. Theodore Sedgwick Gold manuscript. (Collection of Cornwall Historical Society) Among Theodore Sedgwick Gold’s...