Matthew Ballard
Volume 3, Issue 33 Studying the earliest history of Orleans County shows us that education was a foundational element on which our pioneer settlers invested a great deal of funds…
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Matthew Ballard
Volume 3, Issue 14 This photograph, taken circa 1917, shows the Ladies’ Triangular Debating League Society of Medina High School. Seated center is Myra Coon, behind her is Ethel Willis,…
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Matthew Ballard
Volume 2, Issue 20 This image of Lt. Col. Henry Ludwig Achilles shows him garbed in his Union officer’s uniform taken sometime around 1862 at the studio of George Hopkins…
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Matthew Ballard
Volume 2, Issue 16 As the American Library Association closes 2016’s National Library Week, we take a look back at this interior image of the Swan Library taken in 1900.…
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Matthew Ballard
Volume 2, Issue 10 In the earliest years of settlement in Orleans County, the establishment of religious and educational institutions was of the upmost importance. Pioneers cleared their land of…
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Matthew Ballard
Volume 2, Issue 5 George W. Ough, pronounced “Uff”, was born on February 12, 1827 at Cherry Valley, New York. As a child, he worked on the family farm in…
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