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,...
by Old Mentz | Apr 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
We were given the chance to borrow and scan a few of the older yearbooks, however the binding made it difficult to get a good scan without beating up the book too much, so we opted for a few scans of the students. We start with the yearbook staff, a mix of fourteen...
by Old Mentz | Mar 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
Do you remember the InPort? In May of 1992, Louis Ryan, who was the founder and editor of the paper, introduced the first issue by writing; “This monthly news magazine is undertaken with the intent to bridge the gap in communications between segments of our...
by Old Mentz | Feb 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
[Note- The goal of the PBFT project is to show the connections between the families, so I had to break my own rules when I added this branch. In fact, this is it’s own tree as it follows the African-American families that use to live in the area. I wanted to write...
by Old Mentz | Feb 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
I have been spending the last couple weekends with the Clow family of Centerport. My idea of spending time is chasing the various family members through time as they moved and married and moved again. The family came from Schaghticoke in Rensselaer County, NY and...
