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Chemung History Madame X - Wild Times on Railroad Avenue in Elmira, New York 1913
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Civil War Driving Tour. Postcards, Photos and Memorabilia. MADAME X - Wild Times on Railroad Avenue. Elmira, New York 1913. The Elmira Women's League said. We werewild and decadent. Well, they didn't know the half of it. A Report on the Vice Conditions in Elmira, New York, 1913. Heyday of the Avenue. Hear Madame's Song now. Please email for permission to reprint. Please visit our Book Store. They help to sustain this website. Web design by Diane Janowski.
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Chemung County History - Links
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Civil War Driving Tour. Postcards, Photos and Memorabilia. Local ONLINE Research Links (Elmira City Historian). New York History Review. John W. Jones Museum. Elmira, Chemung County. Elmira, New York Restaurant Review. Victorian Pride - Forgotten Songs of America. 78th Division- 309th Infantry 1918-1919. Falkenberg, Germany / Niemodlin, Poland. Association of Public Historians of New York State. American Association for State and Local History. The George Bailey Orchestra. Please visit our Book Store.
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Chemung County History - The Baby Boomer Years
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Civil War Driving Tour. Postcards, Photos and Memorabilia. Wikipedia says Baby Boomers were born between 1946 and 1964. This is what was happening in Chemung County when we were little. 495 inches of rain brought the May 28th Flood. Cappy's Cards and Gifts opened. WELM radio's first broadcast. Hamlin's music store opened on Water Street. Who remembers taking lessons? Elmira Drive-In opened on Route 352. Tom Sawyer Motel opened on Lake Road. Mount Saviour Monastery opened. Chemung Speedrome opened. Red Ja...
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Chemung County History - Elmira music
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Civil War Driving Tour. Postcards, Photos and Memorabilia. This album is available on. Hardcopy CD for $17.95. Favorite Songs of New York State. Played by the George Bailey Orchestra. Includes these Elmira tunes. By AJ Abbey in 1856. By WO Wilkenson in 1885. Belles of Buffalo Polka, 1855. Binghamton March, 1855. Buffalo City Cadet March, 1877. Cayuga Mazurka, 1874. Chenango Polka, 1879. Duchess of Albany, 1883. Elmira Schottish, 1856. Life on the Susquehanna, 1882. Little Barefoot Waltzes (Elmira).
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Chemung County History - Historic Sites - Driving Tour - Elmira
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Civil War Driving Tour. Postcards, Photos and Memorabilia. Historic Sites in Elmira and Chemung County. If you have a Smartphone, you can take it with you! Click here to see the full text for Historic Places in Elmira and Chemung County, NY. Check out our Historic Civil War sites. In Elmira, too. Either go to ChemungHistory.com. Or scan this QR. Please email for permission to reprint. Please visit our Book Store. They help to sustain this website. Web design by Diane Janowski.
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Chemung County History - Eldridge Park
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Civil War Driving Tour. Postcards, Photos and Memorabilia. Dr Edwin Eldridge moved to Elmira, New York in 1857. He purchased a parcel of land with a lake and created a beautful sculpture garden. Eldridge died in 1876 and the land lay dormant until the City of Elmira purchased the property in 1889.). Photograph by W. T. Purviance, circa 1875 for The Scenery of the Erie Railway. Courtesy of the Barnes Library, Elmira. The streetcars run to the park. The grounds comprise some two hundred acres.
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Chemung County History - The Peek-a-boo Gang
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Civil War Driving Tour. Postcards, Photos and Memorabilia. Versus the Elmira Heights Trio. Compiled by Diane Janowski. May 24, 1909. Fight was out in the street. John Vosnick received two ugly scalp wounds that went to the skull - done with a knife. The wound that will probably end his life was a horrible gouge on the right side of his back 6 inches long and an inch-and-a-half in his lung. May 25, 1909. Thrown at Bossic, the light was. May 26, 1909. Please email for permission to reprint.
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Chemung County History - Why Chemung?
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Civil War Driving Tour. Postcards, Photos and Memorabilia. And what's a mastodon? Ausburn Towner, 1879. The History of Chemung County. Pp 27 - 28. Other local mammoth or mastodon finds. Athens, Pennsylvania tusk found by Caleb Baker, disappeared from a blacksmith's shop. Tusk found - sent to England for scientific testing - never returned. Tusk found - while on loan to Lafayette College (Easton, PA) destroyed in fire. Unknown date - mammoth molar found in Elmira. Today's whereabouts unknown. Big Flats, N...
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Chemung County - Elmira 175 Years Ago
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Civil War Driving Tour. Postcards, Photos and Memorabilia. It’s On the Books. By Diane L. Janowski. Laws are very important to the citizens of a town. Actual laws and resolutions taken from the Village of Elmira’s Board of Trustees’ meetings from 1831 to 1849. July 25, 1831. No person shall have any slaughterhouse within the limits of the Village of Elmira unless he has gotten a license in writing signed by the Trustees. October 23, 1832. May 9, 1835. May 7, 1836. July 19, 1836. June 3, 183. May 25, 1840.
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Chemung County History - Our Book Store
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Civil War Driving Tour. Postcards, Photos and Memorabilia. Books and Music about Elmira and Chemung County, New York. Local POSTERS $12.95 each. Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier. 1895 Paperback book 146 pages. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. 2595 Paperback book 228 pages. To War and Back: The Lightning Division 1918-1919 - Carl Albert Janowski's army diary. 1695 Paperback book 72 pages. Zim's Foolish History of Elmira. Paperback book 120 pages. The Elmira Prison Camp reprint (soft cover). Victorian ...
