by Old Mentz | Jun 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
In the year 1900 the Erie Canal was eighty-years-old, and it was showing it’s age. The state of New York was investigating whether to construct a new Barge Canal, fix up the old and worn canal, or get out of the canal business altogether. In November 1903, the voters...
by Old Mentz | May 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
The warmer weather certainly slows down research, but we have added a couple new groups to the Port Byron Family Tree project. As we were preparing the spring issue of the Lock 52 Chronicle newsletter, we had a question about the Tatgenhorst Block and where it was...
by Old Mentz | May 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Front row, seated left to right: Charles Howell Sam Roney Jack Graham John Corfield Eugene Lyons Dan Elliot John Caveny/Ware/Hearn (?) (children) Charlie Blass Mr. ________ Dan Baldwin Mr. Newkirk J T Dixon Dolly Vosburg Lew Jones Earl Elliot Glen Clarke Bob Beach Gus...
by Old Mentz | May 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
by Anita Messina On a walk through a small woodland off Trumbull Road, Cato Town Historian Eva Sholes and her daughter Amy came upon a large granite boulder, four feet in diameter, lying on the west bank of a slender creek off Trumbull Road and Route 31. Imbedded in...
by Old Mentz | Apr 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
The construction and opening of the New York State Barge Canal in 1918 ended the canal era in Port Byron. The original Erie Canal had been built through the young village in 1819 and had opened for business in 1820. Ninety-eight years later the old Erie was abandoned,...
