Matthew Ballard
Vol. 5, No. 36 In January of 2019, I received a request for information on the old stone store once belonging to T. O. Castle of Millville. Daniel Hurley purchased…
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Vol. 5, No. 26 Of the five Medal of Honor recipients from Orleans County, John E. Butts of Medina was the only county native who received the award posthumously for…
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Matthew Ballard
[caption id="attachment_1857" align="alignnone" width="640"] Gravesite of Thomas W. Kates, Flushing Cemetery – Courtesy of Harvey Abbott (FindAGrave)[/caption] Vol. 5, No. 25 According to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, nearly…
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A Hough 100 Loader removing snow on East Shelby Road, February 3, 1977. Vol. 5, No. 5 A couple feet of snow, sub-zero temperatures, and forty mile-per-hour wind gusts make for…
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Vol. 4, No. 36 During tours of Mount Albion Cemetery, it is nearly impossible to visit a section of the cemetery that is void of at least one zinc marker.…
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Vol. 4, No. 35 Ziba Roberts was born July 31, 1840, near East Shelby to Ziba and Susanna Wolcott Roberts. This image, which appears within A Brief History of the…
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