Souvenirs of Yesteryear
Exploring Chenango County, New York
Donald A. Windsor
Volumes 1-4 Combined
CONTENTS INDEX
Readers have urged me to provide a comprehensive index to all four volumes of Souvenirs of Yesteryear. I am working on one, but in the meantime, here is an index based on the tables of contents in front of each volume.
The first number following --- is the volume. The number after the : is the page in that volume.
1491 --- 3: 64
A date still living in infamy --- 4: 86
A salt and battery --- 4: 41
Apple trees --- 2: 14
Apples, rescuing historic --- 3: 8
Arch, natural, local --- 2: 79
Archaeology, farmstead --- 4: 96
Archaeology, half century of local --- 4: 40
Bamboozled by an invasive alien --- 3: 46
Barn, an 1817 --- 2: 44
Barn, tallest in Chenango County? --- 1: 75
Birds, early spring --- 2: 18
Black Bridge --- 4: 34
Black Bridge, the 'other' --- 4: 46
Book, the best about Norwich --- 3: 57
Bottoms up --- 3: 95
Bowman Lake State Park --- 3: 98
Brick crosswalks, those impressive new --- 3: 31
Bridge at Ditch Road, Holmesville --- 1: 32
Brookfield Railroad --- 3: 22
Brookfield trails --- 3: 89
Bullthistle botanist blossomed in Brooklyn --- 4: 55
Bullthistle County --- 3: 37
Burned-over District --- 4: 58
Canada thistle --- 4: 18
Canal Lock 76 --- 4: 56
Canal Lock 88 --- 2: 83
Canal Lock 100 --- 4: 77
Canal water --- 4: 74
Catskill-IthacaTurnpike --- 3: 70
Caves, Indian ---1: 37
Cemetery, an ideal --- 2: 53
Central Valley Railroad ---1: 34
Cheese Factory, Prudy Robbins --- 3: 54
Chenango Forks --- 4: 25
Chenango Hotel --- 3: 80
Chenango Road, The Old --- 4: 13
Chenango to Albany --- 3: 48
Cherry tree, gnarled survivor --- 1: 13
Cheshireville Hotel--- 1: 31
Christmas bird count --- 2: 8
Chronological diversity --- 4: 51
Civilian Conservation Corps camp --- 1: 15
Clark, Hiram C. --- 2: 64
Consolidating Chenango County into three towns --- 4: 85
Corner, most significant in Chenango County --- 1: 29
Cornfield, our oldest --- 3: 28
Cortland Street Pool --- 1: 27
County, the new --- 3: 4
Creamery, Fountain Head --- 3: 66
Cycle pathic bikers --- 3: 72
Daffodils, feral --- 2: 30
Dalton Road --- 2: 76
Dams, stone --- 1: 5
Dandelions --- 4: 6
Daphne,catching --- 3: 19
Dates provide bridges to the past --- 4: 65
Dendrochronology --- 3: 25
Deserts of Oxford --- 2: 5
Diaries --- 4: 11
Diaries of Henry Van Der Lyn --- 2: 81
Dug wells, stone-lined --- 3: 10
East German --- 4: 20
Eel weir in the Unadilla River --- 4: 81
Esker quester --- 2: 40
Experimental Forest Station in Smyrna --- 2: 87
Farmstead archaeology --- 4: 96
Fellow traveler --- 4: 83
Finger Lakes Trail --- 1: 95
Fireplace, an old, unique --- 2: 54
Floods, plain fill-osophy of --- 4: 60
Forest Station, Experimental, Smyrna --- 2: 87
Foundation for a lifetime --- 3: 59
Foundations, old stone --- 1: 7
Fountain Head Creamery --- 3: 66
Frenchmans Road --- 1: 21
Frenchmans Road, Noble site on --- 4: 10
Frink Tavern, chronology of --- 2: 60
Gateway to Perrytown --- 3: 3
Genealogy for non-natives --- 1: 19
General Sullivan, ever in Chenango County? --- 4: 8
Gore, The --- 3: 96
Gorges and waterfalls --- 1: 50
Great Brook Watershed --- 3: 68
Grocery stores --- 3: 83
Grog Hollow Monster --- 3: 39
Grog Hollow Monster, scary encounter with --- 4: 100
Groundhog's Day --- 3: 6
Halfway measures --- 4: 36
Hamlets --- 4: 22
Hatch, Joel, entry into Chenango County --- 3: 11
Highest point in Chenango County --- 1: 56
Hiram C. Clark --- 2: 64
Historical preservation --- 4: 29
Hobo jungles --- 4: 49
Holmesville, Message from namesake --- 2: 89
Hope springs eternal --- 1: 23
Hosea Dimmick house --- 4: 43
House, plant your own --- 1: 85
IBM Glen --- 4: 24
Indian burial grounds? --- 4: 45
Indian mounds --- 3: 17
Inhabitants, earliest of Chenango County --- 2: 47
Iroquoia --- 4: 76
Ithaca-Catskill Turnpike --- 3: 70
Joe Road, Lincklaen --- 1: 44
Joel Hatch's entry into Chenango County --- 3: 11
John Lincklaen's journey from Oxford to Cazenovia --- 2: 28
John Lincklaen's trek north --- 2: 38
Jordan Spreader --- 4: 93
Junk, old rusty --- 3: 82
Kettlehole bogs --- 3: 35
Kings Settlement road, the old --- 2: 10
Kopac Pond --- 1: 76
Lakes, largest in Chenango County --- 2: 1
Lazyville, living in had its Merritts --- 4: 1
Line of Property --- 3: 55
Low-Down Wagon Works --- 4: 79
Main, gas, Remembering the --- 1: 47
Manhole covers, personalized --- 4: 32
Maps, database for old --- 1: 83
McDonough Sulfur Springs --- 2: 33
McMoran Knife Factory --- 2: 59
Message from the namesake of Holmesville --- 2: 89
Mill at Plymouth Reservoir --- 1: 17
Montgomery's wards --- 2: 31
Monumental disappointment --- 3: 61
Noble site on Frenchmans Road --- 4: 10
Norwich-Guilford Road, the old --- 2: 6
Not through a car window --- 4: 63
Notch up on West Hill --- 3: 1
Nuts to New York --- 3: 76
Octagonal silos --- 4: 15
Old & Weary --- 2: 26
Old road between Woods Corners and South New Berlin --- 4: 98
Oneida River --- 3: 78
Otselic Creek became the Otselic River --- 3: 41
Outhouses --- 2: 20
Parallel lines in the river bottom --- 3: 52
Passenger pigeons --- 3: 43
Peak, highest in each town --- 4: 28
Penguin Peak --- 1: 78
Perrytown --- 1: 25
Perrytown, Gateway to --- 3: 3
Perrytown, in Columbus --- 2: 23
Pettis Slope - Pre-World War II --- 2: 3
Pettis Slope monument --- 1: 88
Pharsalia Schoolhouse Number 8 --- 3: 62
Pink Hill, Pitcher --- 1: 39
Plain fill-osophy of floods --- 4: 60
Plank Roads --- 1: 52
Plasterville --- 4: 88
Pool, swimming, Cortland Street --- 1: 27
Population histories of the towns --- 2: 69
Population history of Chenango County --- 2: 67
Post office , oldest in Chenango County --- 4: 31
Pre-World War II boyhood --- 4: 53
Preston Hollow --- 3: 23
Preston's bicentennial --- 3: 87
Prudy Robbins Cheese Factory --- 3: 54
Puckerville Corners --- 1: 42
Puckerville Pullers, ringleader of --- 2: 56
Quarry, abandoned --- 1: 9
Quarry, Grandfather's --- 1: 41
Racetrack bridge --- 2: 36
Railroad triumphs over canal --- 4: 70
Raking suckers --- 3: 85
Roundhouse hub? --- 1: 11
Ruins, old, the beauty of --- 1: 73
Sailor's monument --- 2: 71
Sanford Tool Factory --- 1: 61
Sangerfield River --- 3: 91
Sawmill, steam, remains of --- 3: 15
Scary encounter with the Grog Hollow Monster --- 4: 100
Schoolhouse Number 8, Pharsalia --- 3: 62
Schoolhouse reunion, one-room --- 1: 65
Schoolhouses, Old --- 1: 54
Settlement spacings --- 4: 38
Shingle Street --- 2: 51
Sidney walking trail --- 4: 68
Silos, octagonal --- 4: 15
Skinner Hill --- 4: 16
Sneaking smokes behind the warehouse --- 2: 46
Solstice, winter --- 2: 85
Spoonful of Velvet ice cream --- 2: 62
Stealth tourism --- 4: 94
Steam sawmill, remains of --- 3: 15
Stone piles of Chenango County --- 1: 1
Stone piles, the mysterious --- 2: 12
Stone walls, reading --- 1: 80
Street signs --- 4: 47
Suckers, raking --- 3: 85
Sugarbush, an old --- 2: 24
Sulfur Springs revisited --- 2: 41
Sulfur Springs, McDonough --- 2: 33
Sulphur Springs revisited again --- 2: 49
Swamps --- 2: 66
Take it with you. You really can --- 2: 34
The 'Z' word --- 4: 66
The significance of an early trail --- 2: 43
Three score and ten --- 2: 21
Tied to the Great Depression --- 1: 48
Tinker Ridge Road --- 3: 14
Tomato time --- 3: 45
Tornadoes in Chenango --- 1: 68
Tourism, stealth --- 4: 94
Town boundary markers --- 1: 58
Town centers --- 2: 77
Toxic waste dumps --- 2: 74
Tulip trees --- 3: 29
Turnpike, Ithaca-Catskill --- 3: 70
Turntable, railroad junction, East Guilford --- 3: 20
Twenty Towns, original --- 3: 93
Unadilla River --- 1: 3
Unadilla River, eel weir in --- 4: 81
Uncle Dan's church --- 3: 33
Upperville Falls --- 4: 61
Van Der Lyn, Henry, diaries of --- 2: 81
Velvet ice cream, spoonful of --- 2: 62
Vermont Sufferers --- 4: 4
Wall of Water --- 4: 2
Waterfalls and Gorges --- 1: 50
Wells, dug, stone-lined --- 3: 10
What do we know? --- 2: 16
Whaupaunaucau State Forest --- 1: 91
Where are we? --- 1: 70
Where do you live? --- 3: 74
White Rock --- 4: 71
White snakeroot --- 3: 50
White Store Falls --- 4: 73
Who lived here and when? --- 4: 91
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