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My Town by a River

Vignettes of Chatham, New Jersey

By: Liz Holler,Chatham Historical Society

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My Town by a River

Vignettes of Chatham, New Jersey

By: Liz Holler,Chatham Historical Society

Chatham, New Jersey is a small town situated on the banks of the Passaic River. The first visitors were the Lenni Lenape Indians who stopped in Chatham on their annual migration from Sussex County to the Atlantic Ocean. They called the river the "Fishawack". In late August of 1781, while his troops were camped in Morristown, George Washington wrote seventeen letters from a Chatham homestead. After the Revolutionary War, Chatham's convenient location, just a day's journey from New York City, made it a popular overnight stop for east-west travelers. The mid nineteenth century brought vacationers from Newark and New York City to enjoy Chatham's "salubrious air." Drawn to the bucolic setting, many vacationers returned to make Chatham their home. Today Chatham is a bustling commuter suburb. Its tenuous ties to a simpler time exist mainly in the memories of its citizens. A native Chathamite, Liz Holler chronicles those times. From Swimming with the Roses to The Tea Room Era, Liz's stories depict life in a small town by the river. These vignettes, first published in the Chatham Historical Society newsletters, depict a moment in time that adds to Chatham's rich past.

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My Town by a River

Vignettes of Chatham, New Jersey

By: Liz Holler,Chatham Historical Society

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Early Railways

A Guide for the Modeller

By: Peter Chatham,Stephen Weston

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Early Railways

A Guide for the Modeller

By: Peter Chatham,Stephen Weston

History, references, and resources for modeling the earliest decades of British rail travel. This is a guide to the earliest period of railway history, from the very beginnings of steam traction at the start of the nineteenth century, up to about 1880. Over these few decades the railways evolved from something that at the start was markedly different, into a scene that any present-day railwayman would recognize. It is a time with much to commend it from a modeler’s point of view. The trains were much shorter and therefore easier to fit into the limited space most of us have available as, correspondingly, were the station layouts, especially at the beginning of the period. Covering infrastructure, locomotives, carriages, and wagons, this is an invaluable resource for those who want to explore the modeling possibilities of nineteenth-century railways.

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220

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Pen and Sword

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1526700182

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From County Cavan to Canada: The Simons-Simonds-Symonds Family

By: Peggy Elizabeth Chatham

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From County Cavan to Canada: The Simons-Simonds-Symonds Family

By: Peggy Elizabeth Chatham

In From County Cavan to Canada: The Simons - Simonds - Symonds Family, author Peggy Elizabeth Chatham compiles the stories of the first three generations of an Irish farmer family that established their new lives starting in the 1860's. Four Simons brothers and their Burke and Armstrong sisters settled in Megantic County in Quebec and Stormont County in Ontario. Their children married into families including Amadon, Bennett, Jamieson, Lunnie, Mathers, McVety, Ouderkirk, Perrigard, Savage, Stewart, Walker, and Wright. Their families have spread throughout the Canada provinces, New England States, and the U.S.A. Author P.E. Chatham was born in Toronto, raised in New Jersey, and attended college in Pennsylvania. Her description of the counties and the families will interest anyone with roots in historic Megantic and Stormont Counties.

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1304817709

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My Town by a River

My Town by a River

My Town by a River

My Town by a River

Early Railways

Early Railways

From County Cavan to Canada: The Simons-Simonds-Symonds Family

From County Cavan to Canada: The Simons-Simonds-Symonds Family

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