HISTORY MYSTERY: Clay Town Hall Story
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Article Date:
2, December 2020
HISTORY MYSTERY: Clay Winters
This photo is a winter shot...
Article Date:
2, December 2020
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HISTORY MYSTERY: Surviving on a Farm 100 Years Ago
The first photo shows corn being hay mown by hand with a sickle and in the second photo, corn is being shocked by hand. Carl Sotherden* will tell us some of his personal experience growing up as a young farmer.
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1, December 2020
HISTORY MYSTERY: Earl Butterfield
Earl Butterfield, our 49th Town Supervisor, is shown in this picture with his granddaughter Jody, son Gary who is mayor of North Syracuse ,and his wife Maureen. Earl accepted from the town on October 2, 2017 a Proclamation of his service...
Article Date:
1, December 2020
HISTORY MYSTERY: George Blanchard Farm and Family
The photo is of the George Blanchard Farmstead. The large white house is on the left is the original farm house; in the center back is the horse/cow barn; and to the right the tobacco barn with the tobacco shed in the front...
Article Date:
25, September 2020
HISTORY MYSTERY: SOLOMON KITTLE of CLAY, Confederate Prisoner
Solomon was born in 1828 to James and Cornelia Kittle in Morgan Settlement, a small hamlet on the corner of Wetzel and Morgan Roads in the Town of Clay, just 5 years after it was incorporated. In the late 1830’...
Article Date:
23, September 2020
HISTORY MYSTERY: Clay’s Best Kept Secret
Over 10 years ago, at an interview with Lockmaster Peter Case at Lock 23, he told me stories of the locks that very few, if any, people know. First a simple explanation of how a lock functions. Tunnels at both sides of the lock...
Article Date:
17, September 2020
HISTORY MYSTERY: Charles Dence and His Lamps
Several years ago, I accessioned a beautiful hand-made wooden lamp. Attached to it was a piece of masking tape which read, “Charles Dence, 1920’s.” There must be a story in this, I thought. I approached Harry Dence, a member...
Article Date:
11, September 2020
HISTORY MYSTERY: Morgan School/Brown Children
The photo is of Morgan Schoolhouse in Clay, c.1910. Of particular note is that this rural schoolhouse was not segregated (even though “Jim Crow” segregation laws were in full force in the South and parts of the North at this time)—African-American children attended alongside their White peers. The African-American children...
Article Date:
10, September 2020
HISTORY MYSTERY: Dutch Settlement Church
Immanuel Lutheran Church had another name when the congregation began in the early 1800’s. It was called Dutch Settlement Church after the early founders of German descent from Duetschland which means Germany. A large family of...
