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Isabel Fraser Harmon "Quits 'Y.W.' to Run Farm"
Caption to photograph summarizes the content of this news clipping: "General secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association, of Baltimore, who has resigned her position to manage a big wheat farm in Western New York. She takes the place of her…
Rustic Scene at Temple Hill Cemetery, Geneseo NY
Postcard shows northwest corner of cemetery, featuring stonework and a limestone basin originally supplied by the Hartman or "Fountain" farm on Groveland Road. It was built sometime shortly after 1886.
Mouth of Red Creek, Genesee Valley Park, Rochester NY
Postcard photograph depicts bucolic scene at the former South Park along Genesee River, with swans, bridge, and decorative lighthouse. In earlier times Red Creek had been the end of a portage around the Genesee River falls and upstream rapids.
Dr. George M. Peabody
Son of his uncle Alvah Peabody, Sheffield's cousin George McLellan (1858-1928) grew up in Springwater and then began training as a doctor, which he completed in 1885. He practiced in Wayland, NY where he held several public positions.
Bridge at Oil City, PA
At the mouth of Oil Creeks, spectators watch rafts that have made it downstream after a so-called "pond fresh." The creek was too shallow for navigation much of the year, so dams held water then released it all at once--a chaotic process that often…
Village of Springwater, NY ca. 1912
Panoramic view of Springwater Valley looking southwest, showing the Advent church at right and the town hall at left center
Crowds walking to the Hemlock Fair, ca. 1900
Since the 1860s a fair has been held at the northern end of Hemlock Lake, then called "Slab City." This crowd may have just disembarked from the Lehigh Valley Railroad station, behind the mill.
Gideon Archer Homestead, Hilton NY
Gideon and Mary Archer harbored escaped slaves in their home before transporting them to a location where they were rowed across Lake Ontario to freedom in Canada.