by Old Mentz | Sep 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
This month I will finish out our tour of little settlements around the town by visiting Haydenville. This very small settlement was two miles upstream of Port Byron on what is today Route 38. It is marked by the intersection with Hayden Road and a small group of...
by Old Mentz | Sep 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
I was working on an article about Haydenville, which was a small milling settlement two miles south of the village. The area is marked by the intersection of Route 38, South Street, and Hayden Road. Anyhow, it would be impossible to write an article about Haydenville...
by Old Mentz | Aug 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
As we go about the process of sorting out the archives, the committee has been selecting some items they feel might be of interest for the blog. Here is an 1995 article from our own Anita Messina who was a contributor to the Citizen. The bridge in question was on...
by Old Mentz | Aug 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
A friend of the Society sent in a scan of an envelope which was addressed to Mary J White, Pres[sident] Corps #207, Port Byron, NY. The sender was Mrs. Ada Mohr of Brooklyn, who was the President of the Woman’s Relief Corps. The question was if I had ever heard of...
by Old Mentz | Jul 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
I am so pleased to announce that the Lock 52 Historical Society has completed the first phase of the digitization of the Port Byron newspapers. Last December I wrote in my monthly column that I thought that the available digital copies of the Port Byron papers began...
by Old Mentz | Jul 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
Hello to all you family researchers. I wanted to begin a column which will give you updates as to current genealogical happenings and discoveries at the Society. About a year ago in 2019 the Society received a couple large photo albums from the Robert’s family,...
