Reynoldston Research

Author: Wlanglois

  • Letter – Transfer of Website to SUNY Plattsburgh, Feinberg Library, Special Collections

    April 13, 2014 Re:  The http://www.reynoldstonnewyork.org website Dear Friends, First off I want to thank all of you for your generosity in sharing material related to your family and loved ones with us and the website.   Your support and encouragement has meant a great deal to us. As many of you know, the website created…

  • Moquin Genealogy

    Moquin Genealogy Henry Moquin  1862- Wife:   Mary  1863 –   Children: 1.   Peter 1891- 2. Edward 1895 3. Angeline  1997 4.  Oscar  1901 5.  Armass 1906 6.  Elmer  1906- 1977       Philip J. Moquin  1873-1963) wife  Mrs. Delia (Hooper)  Moquin  1884 –1987 See  the  interview about Reynoldston with Delia Moquin by clicking on…

  • Joseph Campbell, Reynoldston, New York b. 1833 d. 1906 Family Genealogy

    Genealogy  Joseph Campbell   b. 1833 d. 1906 A g e, 25 years. Enlisted, August 30, 1862, at Bangor, to serve three years; mustered in as private, Co. F , September 29, 1802; mustered out with company, June 7, 1865, at Raleigh, N . C. m. Philomene (Mary) Rondeau b. 1844-1930 Note from Joey John on…

  • An Adirondack Mill Town

                        History                     Community Life                 Family Life                 Religious Beliefs      Reynolds’ Mill           Logging             Logging Camps     Blacksmith Shop      Company Store     Telephone-Telegraph Sale of Reynold’s Lands     Brooklyn Cooperage  Farming & Sugaring Housing Styles The Families Tapes & Transcripts 

  • History of Reynoldston

    Introduction Reynoldston, New York, is still a place on a map, but little remains from the period during which this community thrived on local forest resources – a short fifty years, 1880-1930 (see Timeline).   While the story of the community is not unique to so many single resources town, what is unique is that…

  • Oral and Digital History of Franklin County, New York

           Bangor     Bombay       Brandon-Skerry    Burke         Duane       Constable    Malone Town   Malone Village    Westville             Whippleville    Growing Hops   Langlois Family   

  • Episodes in History

                                         Logging in     Franklin County    Reynoldston 1880 through plate  glass negatives       Robert Schroeder      of Debar Pond, NY                                                         NewYear’s Eve    in Reynoldston      

  • Logging in The Township of Brandon, Franklin County, New York

      LOGGING IN FRANLKIN COUNTY AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY (AROUND  1900) By Marion Delisle My objective was to learn about logging in its traditional form as practised in the early years of 1900. Having lived on a farm near such wooded areas, logging has been not only a pastime but a means of…

  • Community Life

    Community Life              Although, Reynoldston never existed as an incorporated village, its three hundred and fifty residents formed a small close knit community of lumberjacks and mill hands, many drawn from large extended families such as the Bordeauxs, the Campbells, the Bombards, the Trushaws, the Moquins and the Trims. These families and about thirty others were…

  • Backgound

        Reynoldston Research and Studies: Historical Background and Current Projects By W. J. Langlois & Robert H McGowan   Introduction Oral History of Reynoldston, New York – 1968-70 Collecting Social History Collecting the History of the Reynolds Bros. Mill Creation of Reynoldston Research and Studies Franklin County New York Oral History, Documenting the Social…