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"A grand ball"
Folks from all walks of life and in all parts of the country enjoyed parties, dancing, and balls in 19th-century America. The caption on this wood engraving, which appeared in Harper's Weekly in 1869, reads "Grand Ball Given in Honor of President…
The Sleigh Race
Winter sport on a cutter, from the popular artists Currier and Ives
East Springwater
Detail from an 1872 map shows the location of Sheffield Peabody's house, next to School #4
Glen Avon Mill, as it appears today
Since the 1960s, the former Light Bros. then Glen Avon Mills has been a family residence
Court Excerpts from "Livingston Republican"
An excerpt from The Livingston Republican from December 1857 that shows how decisions of local court cases were broadcast to the public.
Livingston County Courthouse
An image of the old Livingston County Courthouse, which stood 1823-1897
Sheffield Peabody gravestone
Family plot located at Evergreen Cemetery, Springwater NY. On the back side of Peabody's monument is verse adapted from Thomas Jefferson's deathbed letter to his daughter, Martha Jefferson Randolph: "Farewell my dear family adieu / The last pangs of…
Glen Avon Mills
Ca. 1912 photograph of the flour mill on Conesus Creek in Littleville, NY built by Emme Light in 1878 and subsequently operated by his sons John and William. Glen Avon Mills sold several trademarked varieties of flour, including “Peerless,” “Sweet…
Shaffer Farm on Oil Creek, PA, 1865
Detail from F.W. Beers map Oil Creek 5
Wadsworth Flour Mill, circa 1907
Two views of a Wadsworth grist mill located on Conesus Creek in the southern part of the town of Avon, N.Y. It was one of several mills in the area owned by the Wadsworth family of Geneseo, N.Y., beginning in the late eighteenth century.