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  • Hamlets
    • Alton
      • Alton’s Sergeant York – Page
      • Alton (Espenscheid) Cemetery
      • The History of Alton (1812 – 1979) – Page
      • Alasa Farm (1823 – Present) – Page
      • Hobos in Alton
      • Private Charles McDowell – Page
      • Seth Cole (1829 – 1903) – Page
      • Collier Cobblestone House (1840) – Page
      • Alton United Methodist Church circa 1855 – page
      • Alton House (1866 – 1986) – Page
      • Dry Houses (1870 – 1950s) – Page
      • Alton Train Depot (1872) – Page
      • Alton Canning Company – Page
      • Women’s Suffrage Comes to Alton (1910) – page
      • Eastover Manor (1927) – Page
      • Band of Brothers (1945) – Page
    • Joy
      • Joy Cemetery
      • History of Joy
      • The Joy Store
      • Joy Schoolhouse (1833 – 1950) – Page
      • General Gordon Granger
      • Prince Nelson – Page
    • Sodus Center
      • Taylor Brower – The “Helen Keller” of Sodus Center
      • Gone Fishing
      • Sodus Center Cemetery
      • Sodus Center Mills (1860s) – Page
      • The Runaway Bride of Sodus Center (1897)
      • Sodus Center Opera Hall (circa 1899) – Page
      • Sodus Center Train Station – Page
      • Civil War Letters – Page
      • Edward Chandler Delano – Page
      • Delano Park
      • Red Brick Church Meeting House – Page
      • Sodus Center Hotel (1914) – Page
    • South Sodus
      • South Sodus Cemetery
      • Thornton Lime Kiln (mid 1800s) – Page
      • J. W. Watson Store (circa 1890s) -Page
      • M.E. Chittenden Store (circa 1890s) – page
      • South Sodus School (circa 1890s) – Page
      • South Sodus with Church and Stores (Circa 1900) – Page
      • South Sodus School (1907) – Page
    • Wallington
      • 1800s
        • Early Settlement (1794 – 1811) – Page
        • First Town Meeting (1811) – Page
        • The story of how Christian Holler Rd. got its name (1823) – Page
        • Wallington Cobblestone Schoolhouse (1826 – Present) – Page
        • Walling Tavern (1834) – Page
        • Katherine Olmsted / Normandy Inn (1886 – 1964) – Page
        • Cock Fighting in Wallington (1895) – Page
      • 1900s
        • Pickle Factory (1900 – 1926) – Page
        • Trains and Trolleys (1909) – Page
        • Hobos in Wallington (1930 – 1950) – Page
        • End of WW II (1945) – Page
        • Skyway Drive-in (1947 -1975) – Page
        • Wallington Airport (1946 -1950) – Page
  • Villages
    • Sodus
      • Businesses
        • Catlin’s Market
        • Honk’s – No Girls Allowed
        • Simonelli’s Shoe Repair
      • Churches
        • Church of the Epiphany Catholic Church
        • First Reformed Church
        • St. John’s Episcopal Church
      • Masonic Lodge #392
      • Old Sodus Photos
        • 1800 – Page
          • A. B. Williams Store (1890s)
        • 1900 – Page
          • Ray Tinkepaugh Rural Carrier (1900 – 1933)
          • West of Sodus Feb 15, 1902 – Page
          • Maple St. Looking South early 1900s – page
          • 1906 Murderers in Sodus – Page
          • 1906 Sodus Firemen – Page
          • Sodus Train Crash – 1906 – Page
          • 1908 Mill Street Looking South – Page
          • 1908 U.S. Army – Page
          • 1910 Booster Day – Page
          • 1910 Gypsy Camp – Page
          • 1910 Sodus Train Station – Page
          • 1917 Paving Sodus – Page
          • Old Sodus Academy after 1918 – Page
          • Myers Hospital circa 1920 – Page
          • 1934 Sodus Senior Class – Page
          • 1938 Hotel Sodus
          • 1950s – LaGasse & Son Gas Station
      • Early History of Sodus (1809 – 1900s) – Page
      • 1800s
        • The Great Pigeon Roost (1820) – Page
        • Snider Hotel (early 1800s) – Page
        • Sodus Train Depot (1872 – Present) – Page
        • Diphtheria Epidemic (1876-1877) – page
        • Sodus Dry House (1880s) – Page
      • 1900s
        • Trolley (1900 – 1929) – Page
        • Trolley (1900 -1929) Part 2- Page
        • The Day the Trolley Died
        • Was the 1906 Fire in Sodus a Result of Arson?
        • Teddy Roosevelt Comes to Sodus (1914) – Page
        • Village of Sodus Incorporation – 1918
        • Longest Running Tavern in Sodus (1934 – Present)
        • WW II Air Raid Observation Posts (1941)
        • Hobos in Sodus – Page
        • Telephone Operators (1950s) – Page
      • Opera Houses
        • Sodus Opera House
          • Sodus Opera House History (1878 – 1924) – Page
          • Opera House Play Review (1897) – Page
        • New Opera House (1906 – 1940) – Page
      • Twelfth Night
      • Underground Railroad
        • Maxwell Creek Inn Bed & Breakfast – Page
        • Underground Railroad in Local History – Page
    • Sodus Point
      • The Restoration of the Schooner Lotus
      • Flooding
      • Electrification of Sodus Point
      • History of Sodus Point – Page
  • Murals
    • Alton
      • Alton Mural Map
    • Sodus
      • Sodus Hotel and Bandstand Mural – Page
      • Town of Sodus Mural – Page
    • Sodus Point
      • Blessing of the Murals – Page
      • Battle of Sodus Point Mural – Page
      • Charter Boats Mural – Page
      • Coal Trestle Mural – Page
      • Historic Sodus Point Mural – Page
      • Lighthouse Mural – Page
      • Native American Fishing Mural – Page
      • Steamship Era Mural – Page
      • Underground Railroad in Sodus Point Mural – Page
  • Plaques
    • Sodus
      • Constable Edward Pullman – Page
      • Marcus E. Buckman Plaque – Page
      • Sodus Community Library Plaque – Page
      • Sodus Fountain – Page
      • Veterans Memorial – Page
    • Sodus Center
      • Red Brick Church Meeting House Plaque – Page
    • Sodus Point
      • Plaques
        • 1812 Peace Garden Plaque – Page
        • Asher Warner Plaque – Page
        • Black Community Plaque/Marker – Page
        • Captain Wickham Plaque – Page
        • Coal Trestle Plaque – Page
        • Lighthouse Keeper’s House Plaque – Page
        • Old Sodus Lighthouse Plaque – Page
        • Robert Trent Jones, Sr. Plaques – Page
        • Trolley – Page
        • Underground RR – Page
        • WW II POW Camp Plaque – Page
      • Interpretive Panels
        • 1812 Peace Garden Interpretive Panel – Page
        • Cobblestone Interpretive Panel – Page
        • French and Indian War Interpretive Panel – Page
        • SEAWAY Trails War of 1812 British Raids – Page
    • Wallington
      • Cobblestone Schoolhouse Plaque – Page
      • Former Railbed – Page
  • Our Veterans
    • Sodus Involvement in the Civil War
    • Veterans
  • Links
  • Sodus Web Cam
  • Upcoming Events
  • Quirky Stories
    • Chicken Larceny
    • The Elephant That Wouldn’t Cross the Sodus Bay Bridge
    • The Farmer, the Shotgun and Bobby Kennedy – Page
    • The Haunted Clock
    • Housecleaning Sodus Point Style
    • The Monument on High Street
    • The Travelling Cat – Page
    • The Toad That Drank Wine – Page
    • Mrs. Hotel
  • Contact Info
  • Buildings
    • Charles Point
      • Octagon Tower of Charles Point
    • Sodus
      • 1950 Map of Sodus Businesses – Page
      • Heluva Good Cheese Plant – Page
      • Sodus Cold Storage
    • Sodus Point
    • Cobblestone Structures in Town of Sodus – Page
  • Maps
    • Alton Map (1901) – Page
    • Joy Map (1901) – Page
    • Sodus Center Map (1901) – Page
    • South Sodus (1901) – Page
    • Village of Sodus Map (1901) – Page
    • Village of Sodus Point Maps (1901) – Page
    • Wallington Map (1901) – Page
    • Rest of Town of Sodus (1901) – Page
    • Sodus Businesses Maps
      • 1920s
        • Sodus North Main Street East
        • Sodus North Main Street West
        • Sodus South Main Street East
        • Sodus South Main Street West
        • Additional Business Information
      • 1950
        • Sodus East Main Street
        • Sodus West Main Street
  • Farms
    • Town of Sodus Farms (1904) – Page
    • Sodus Fruit Farm (1911) – Page
    • Silver Buses Migrant Farm (1970s) – Page
  • Mills and Factories
    • Sodus
      • Basket Factory (1910) – Page
      • Champion Roller Mills (1890)
  • Memories
    • Camp Beech-Wood
    • Epidemic Comes To the Town of Sodus
    • Edward Delano (1921) – Page
    • Growing Up in Sodus” – 1920’s- “The Morgan Boys”
    • How the Roads Got Their Names
    • German POW Letter -1947 and POW Contract
    • John Ashbery (1927 -2017)
    • Ice Skating in Sodus
    • Sodus Fruit Farm Farmerettes of World War 1 and 2
    • William O Bryan (1938) – Page
  • Prohibition
    • Rum Running Along the Lake (1920s) – Page
  • Guided Walks
    • Sodus Centennial Tour Script
    • Walk Around Sodus in the Early 1900s
  • Interviews
    • Part 1
      • George Arney
        • George Arney Interview (1990s)
        • George Arney (1992)
      • Stuart Balch
      • Gene Bassage (2019)
      • Neva Bayless (2019)
      • Bill Bishop (2019) – Sodus Point
      • Bill Bishop (2019-2020) – Sodus
      • Charlotte Bloomer (1991)
      • Evelyn DeBadts
        • Evelyn DeBadts – #1
        • Evelyn DeBadts – #2
        • Evelyn DeBadts – #3
      • Jim Gallagher
      • Frank Grosz
      • Fred Harrington
      • Bill Helfer (1994)
      • Herb Kallusch and Michael Stell (2019)
    • Part 2
      • Phyllis Lent (2019)
      • Lucille Messinger (1992)
      • Ella Neverless (2019)
      • Elsie Parsons (1992)
      • Dan & Shirley Patchett
        • Dan & Shirley Patchett #1
        • Dan & Shirley Patchett #2
      • John and Susan Peachey (2019)
      • Gary Poole (2019)
      • Pearl Rook
        • Pearl Rook – #1
        • Pearl Rook – #2 and Bill Huff Jr.
        • Pearl Rook – #3 (1992)
      • Sodus Bay Ice Boat Club (2020)
      • Hazel Wahl
      • Edwin Robert Ward (2007)
      • Henry Zerbe (2008)
  • Tours
    • Guided Episcopal Church Cemetery Tour by Sandy Hopkins
    • Guided Mill Street Cemetery Tour By Sandy Hopkins
    • Narrated Underground Railroad and Abolition
    • Narrated Sodus Walking Tour
    • Town of Sodus Cemeteries
    • Town of Sodus Churches/Chapels
    • Town of Sodus Cobblestones
    • Town of Sodus Historic Markers
    • Town of Sodus 1 and 2 Room Schoolhouses
  • History of Education
    • History of Education (Overview)
    • Town of Sodus Old Schools Presentation
  • Presentations
    • Buffalo Soldiers
  • Postcards & Misc.
  • The Beauty of Our Area

Recent Posts

  • Taylor Brower of Sodus Center April 16, 2020
  • Simonelli’s Shoe Repair Shop April 5, 2020
  • POW Contract and POW Letter April 1, 2020
  • the Farmerettes of the Sodus Fruit Farm March 25, 2020
  • Sodus Cold Storage March 19, 2020
  • Alton’s Sergeant York August 2, 2018
  • The Travelling Cat May 12, 2018
  • Sodus Opera House September 30, 2017

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