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Oral History, as told by prior principal of Avon School District, Irene Coleman. Coleman talks about the school fire of 1961, the development of Avon schools, and the different traditions and sense of community that evolved from the school. Her own…

Publicity photo shows a child pointing at the skeleton of a brontosaurus. Visible in the background is a painted diorama to enhance the scene.

In 1942, amid World War II labor shortages, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) constructed a labor camp located near the town of Elba, NY. It was one of many across the country whose purpose was to facilitate the harvest of valuable crops. These…

Labor shortages on Western New York farms during World War II led to various programs for making up the shortfall: the "Farm Cadets" youth program; calls for community volunteers; guest workers from Jamaica and the Bahamas; and prisoner of war labor.…

Picturesque massif on the Hudson River has earned its name due to frequently being mantled with dramatic clouds. This feature made it a favorite subject of 19th-century painters. Colman's composition is quite complex, however, since it renders both…

George N. Comer was founder, in 1840, of a Boston "Commercial College" bearing his name. The subjects it taught were eclectic: penmanship, bookkeeping, commercial correspondence and computations, navigation, engineering, and surveying. The…

Elizabeth Adams is an elderly woman who offered stories of her early life and family photos to SUNY Geneseo’s organization “Heard @ Geneseo.” The oral interview was taken and transcribed by Jaclyn Connoly and Erica Sutton, and it was later revised by…

Beginning in the late 18th century, Conesus Creek and other waterways near Avon provided mechanical power for a variety of milling functions. This map shows the approximate locations of nine known mills in that area.

Based upon data from the 2012 USDA "Agriculture Census" for New York state, this map shows how the counties of Orleans, Genesee, Livingston, Ontario, and Wayne all retain valuable farmland that is in danger of being lost through unmindful…

This GIS map was created to support the Dansville Ever-Green map, itself an experiment to recover historical knowledge for the purposes of envisioning a bioregional economy & culture. Its premise is to draw a 50-mile radius around the town of…