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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
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Malone, N Y
Brief History of Malone, NY Malone, Main Street, 1907 In 1807, New England settlers founded the First Congregational Church in what was to become the Village of Malone; this congregation was the first organized religious body in Franklin County. The area around Malone had actually been first surveyed several years earlier, in 1801, by Joseph…
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Westville, NY
Westville Westville was established in 1829, and was known as West Constable unitl it became its own town. The town is partially on the Canadian border. Westville was and is primarily a farming community, with flat tillable fields and rich soil. Westville is in the St. Lawrence Valley. The Salmon River runs through Westville fields, where…
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Skerry, N.Y.
SKERRY, NY Skerry, named for James Skerry, was an older settlement than Reynoldston, and bordered Reynoldston on the east. Being older than Reynoldston, it appears to have had a higher proportion of New England settlers. While Reynoldston had one large milling and logging operation, that run by the Reynolds family, Skerry had…
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Mr. Lawrence M. Holden 1911-2000
Mr. & Mrs Lawrence M Holden of Fort Covington, NY by Ms. Lisa Cousineau – 1998 The interview began at a dinner my mother had planned for her cousin Mr. Lawrence Holden, before he was to return home. He is eighty-seven years old and lives with his son, Carl, in Rochester during the…
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Henry Langlois Family Gallery
Henry Langlois Family Gallery Family photo of the Henry and Delia Premo Family [flagallery gid=17 name=”Gallery”]
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Orville Langlois Family Gallery
Orville Langlois Family Gallery This is a new gallery and some of the images will require further work to make them clearer and better. Many were small and very old snapshots and do not blow up well and so will need to be reformatted. Over time we will work on this and adding more…
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Archives & Genealogy – Langlois Family
The Orville Langlois Family Genealogy (There are a large number of other family members that are not in this genealogy. We have their names and birthdates, but not their parentage. Please feel free to let us know any information you have on this.) [Perhaps Amos, who was a mortar and worked at the Hines and…
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Maurice Brown 1902 – 1982
Maurice Brown 1902 -1982 Maurice and Lillian Brown Maurice Brown describes growing up in Malone New York at the turn of the twentieth Century. He lived next to the Franklin County Fairgrounds on William Street in Malone. He talks extensively about the Fair when he was a boy. Father was William Brown and mother…
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Glen Dickinson
Glen Dickinson 1896-1974 Life in Bangor, NY and growing up on a farm in the early 20th Century Table of Contents Track 1 Page 7 Growing up in Bangor, Franklin County, NY on a farm at the beginning of the 20th Century; Parents Fortis Dickinson and Helen Davis (Dickinson). Discussion of Charlie Davis, his mother’s father…