Lumbering on the Delaware

Wednesday July 20th  at 7:30pm, the Deposit Historical Society will present a program entitled, "Rafting and Lumbering on the Delaware". Presenters for the evening will be Gloria McCullough, research librarian for the Wayne County Historical Society, and Ann O'Hara, a trustee and chair of the library committee.

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Acid Factories Talk

Now don't go thinking we're talking drugs here.  Acid factories in this neck of the woods means our historic industry - the tanning industry - and their use of acidic woods to tan leather. 

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Hanford Mills Museum Blacksmith

 

Video demonstrating blacksmithing at Hanford Mills during Ice Harvest. Demonstrations happen at all major events.

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Hanford Mills Museum Ice Harvest

Ice Harvest Festival the first weekend of February every year at Hanford Mills in East Meredith.

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Ulster and Delaware Railroad History

The Ulster & Delaware Railroad crossed the Catskills from Kingston Point on the Hudson, to Oneonta in the Susquehanna Valley. Chartered in 1866 as the Rondout & Oswego, and reorganized in 1872 as the New York, Kingston & Syracuse, it became the Ulster & Delaware in 1875, and was completed to Oneonta in 1900.  

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elaware County Historical Association

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