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| WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS 3 The Autobiography of an American Family - Edith Hay Wyckoff. A chronicle dating from 1788 extracted from 150 letters and ten generations of the Northrup family. The author provides detailed accounts of their move from Rhode Island to Washington county New York, daily life in Sandy Hill (Hudson Falls), New York, travels on the Erie Canal Packets, Civil War experiences and the rescue of the kidnapped Solomon Northrup from slavery in Louisiana. 2000, hardcover & dust jacket, 61 illustrations, extensive index, 288 pgs. 4 Guide to Historic Houses of Worship - Ted Corbett. Photographs and concise histories of twenty houses of worship in Washington County, NY. 1992, illus., soft cover (9"x5"), 32pgs. $3.00 5 Hamlet Summers - Katherine Hanson, Entertaining stories about life on the east side of Lake George in the eighteen and nineteen hundreds. 1979 reprint of the 1953 book, softcover, 81pgs. $6.00 228 Hartford, New York- Its Origin and Early Settlement by Frederic K. Patton. Reliance has been placed on deeds, mortgages, wills, legal papers, and other materials not readily available from common sources. Illus. softcover, 104 pgs., pub.2007. $10.00 6 History of Washington County, NY 1878 - Crisfield Johnson. The classic detailed history of Washington County, NY from 1737 - 1878. 1984, reprint, hardcover, (not indexed but available) 504 pgs. $50.00 7 Index to History of Washington County, NY 1878 - The needed Index. Sexton & Parrott, 1984, hardcover 79pgs. $12.00 187 History of Washington County and Index - Both books special for one price but no discount for members $55.00 8 Old days, Old Ways - Fred Stiles. The popular, profusely illustrated and entertaining account of life around the South Bay area of Lake Champlain and Ft. Ann, NY in the early 1900's. 1984, hardcover, 136pgs. $14.99 9 Reminiscences of the 123rd Reg. N.Y.S.V. - Sgt. Henry C. Morhous. A history of the regiment during its three years service in the Civil War. Appendix contains listings of the regiment. Originally published in 1879. Edition limited to 750 in 1995, hardcover, 220pgs. $30.00 12 Sto-Lat - 100 Years on River Street (Hudson Falls and Glens Falls, NY) - Alice Loughlin. Story of the Polish - Lithuanian settlement along the River Street area of Sandy Hill (Hudson Falls) and Lower Warren Street In Warren county.1996, hardcover, map, 25 photos, 117pgs . $15.00 13 1853 Levey Washington County Map Includes landowners at the time of the survey. Reprint 21" x 29" printed on heavy paper. $8.00 15 Birds-Eye View Print of Fort Edward in 1759 (31" x 23") Shows the fortifications - Drawn by George LaMere, 1930. $8.00 188 2004 WCHS Annual Journal Features: "The Scientific Investigation of Jane McCrea" by David R. Starbuck; Master Lansing Prouty by Tricia Barbagallo; "The Baltimores and The Henrys" by Kenneth A. Perry; " Charles Wesley Ross" by D. Reid Ross; "A Member of Union College" by Sue Brennan & Jeanne Winston Adler; 3 Poems by Elisabeth Cluff - 96 pages, softcover. $11.00 223 2006 WCHS Annual Journal Features: "A Granville Farmstead" by Theodore Corbett, "I remember That" by Warren J. Cardwell, and "The Reid Line" by D. Reid Ross - 96 pages, softcover. $10.00 229 2007 WCHS Annual Journal Features: "Granville in Tumoil" by Theodore C. Corbett, "Christmas Memories" by R. Paul McCarty, "The Great Burning" by Paul R. Loding, "We Should Know Their History" by Michael Russert, "Remembering Jane McCrea" by Doris Lassell, and William Ward's "Famine" letter by Sue Brennan and Jeanne Winston Adler - 96 pages, softcover. $10.00 246 2008 WCHS Annual Journal Features: "Colonial America at War!" by David Starbuck; Christmas Pudding by Agnes Peterson; "What's That You Say? I Can't Hear Ya!" by Jeffrey Jones; "Salem's Forgotten African Americans" by William Cormier; "Four Reids and One Ross" by D. Reid Ross; The Civil War Diary of Sarah Fitch Poates by Eleanor Lourie - 95 pages, softcover. $10.00 257 2009 WCHS Annual Journal Features: " Susquehanna Tradition in the Town of Salem" by Harry Orlyk; "The Cosseys of Lake Champlain" by Erica Wolfe Burke; "A Bill of Lading" by Kathleen Washburn McCarty; "A Whitehall Night Watchman's Book" by Carol Senecal; "The Changing Boundaries of Washington County" by John Mead; "Memories of Early Argyle" by Sue Brennan; "A Very Old Calf's Skin" by Philip Brown - 95 pages, softcover. $10.00 263 2010 WCHS Annual Journal Features: " Women's Work" by Pat Duncan; "A Boy's Life in Hebron, 1855" by Dale Prouty; "Slaveholder's Son to Ardent Abolitionist" by Debi Craig; ""Joiners Wanted"" by William Krattinger; "The McCloy Letters" by William Cormier; " - 95 pages, softcover, Illustrated. $10.00 245 1866 Atlas of Washington County, NY. This is a CD in .pdf format consisting of 36 pages with excellent definition. It is easily magnified to read individual property names and locations. $10.00 New! |
OTHER HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS FOR SALE
244 An important book on the Civil War! Lincoln's Veteran Volunteers Win the War- by D. Reid Ross - 2008, 450 pgs., Illustrated, Indexed, $35.00. Read Review 214 Adirondack Fire Towers-- The Southern Districts - The story of the towers by those who staffed them. 2005, Illus., 257 pgs. $20.00 19 America’s Song: The Story of “Yankee Doodle” - Stuart Murray, hardcover, illustrated, 216 pgs . $21.00 212 The Annotated & Illustrated Journal of Major Robert Rogers - Timothy Todish & Gary Zaboly, Well researched and nicely illustrated, 2002, 344 pgs. $29.00 20 Argyle, My Argyle - Memories, histories and photos - Argyle History Group, 1998, softcover, 480pgs. $25.00 22 Asa Fitch and the Emergence of American Entomology A biography of the first salaried professional entomolgist in the US- Jeffrey K. Bames,1988, softcover, 120 pgs. $12.50 217 The Battle of Saratoga - Beautifully illustrated hardcover from the PowerKids Press, 24pgs, 2003.. $15.95 249 Beggies, A Brick Church, and a Vendue - by John Hastings: Life on a Queensbury, NY Farm in 1897. The Diary of Lottie VanDusen McEchron. 2008, 101pgs., Illus., softcover. $15.00 29 Chainbreaker's War - Jeanne Winston Adler, ed. - An 18th century narrative from a Native American perspective. 224 pgs., softcover, $16.95 260 The Color of His Blood by J. F. Lewis - The historical novel follows a young commoner, Adam Wat Tyler, from the gritty streets of London to the Colonies in 1774. As the War for American Independence begins to swirl around him, he becomes a partriot and follows Benedict Arnold to the frozen fortress of Quebec, to the fiery battle on Lake Champlain and to the bloody battlefields of Saratoga. Arnold is his hero until he learns from John Campe that Arnold has betrayed George Washington with an assignation plot and has betrayed the Cause. As Adam is drawn into New York City in an effort to bring Arnold back to George Washington and to justice, the love of Adam's life, Lady Anne Danamoor, is also drawn into the city and to danger. With her dear friend, Jane McCrea murdered, and her young nephew lost within the labyrinths of the city, she, too, is desperately seeking a new life in this brave new world. With the help of two Iroquois, Red Wing and Killbuck, and a freed slave, Noah Samuels, Adam and Anne learn to navigate their way in an ever increasingly dangerous world. 309 pgs. 2009. $19.95 226 The Covered Bridges of Washington County, New York by Robert G. McIntosh Spiral bound, 62 pages with maps, photographs, drawings and text, published August, 2007. $20.00 247 Diary of a 19th Century Farm Wife, Almira McCleary 1886 by William Cormier - 55 pgs, 2008, Set in Salem, NY, Illustrated and annotated by the author. $10.00 262 Excavating The Sutlers' House - by David Starbuck: A presentation of new and classic artifacts from the remains of a sutlers' house and other military sites along the Hudson River and Lake George, lavishly illustrated in full color. 2010, 118 pgs., paper, $24.95 NEW! 35 The Essential George Washington - "What they said about him is often controversial, often unexpected: ...."- Peter Hannaford, illus., hardcover, 200 . $19.50 36 Events Around Easton, New York, 1877-1947 - The Journal of Mary G. Wilbur - Jeanie St. Mary Mullen and Marilyn Booth Manzella, 1999, illus., 219 . $24.00 235Fate of Family Farming Ronald Jager, 2004, We stand at an important crossroads in American agriculture that will affect the way every citizen eats. This book may help us find our way., 244 pgs.$18.95 37 Feeder Canal - Fun, Facts and Folklore - A tour of the Glens Falls Feeder Canal.- Michael La Cross, 1990, illus., 24 .$5.00 The Fitch Gazetteer - An Annotated Index to the Manuscript History of Washington County, New York - Kenneth A. Perry 38 Volume I, - softcover, 566 pgs. $40.50 39 Volume II, - softcover, 529 pgs. $47.00 40 Volume III, - softcover, 529 pgs. $47.00 Volume IV, - softcover, 601 pgs. $49.00 42 The Fort Edward Book - Robert O. Bascom, 1903 (reprinted 1997), hardcover, 274 pp. $37.0 44 Fort Edward & Sandy Hill in the Nineteenth Century- softcover, 1997, illustrated with photos, 47 pgs. $12.50 47 Fugitive Deckhand Fred Godfrey, 1990, novel of the canalways of NYS, hardcover, 190 pgs. $18.95 49 French and Indian War Battlesites: A Controversy - Additional research and on-site detective work by a reenactor and writer.- Bob Bearor, softcover, 116 pgs. $17.16 251 Glens Falls "The Empire City" - Reprint of the 1908 pictorial history of Glens Falls, NY; softcover, $13.50. 189 Growing Up Country - by Dorothy Offensend; the life of the author from 1914 until 2004. It tells what it was like living on a farm in the early 20th century, the hardships experienced during the "Great Derpression", the ups and downs and how she handled them. 460 pgs. 151 pictures softcover, $10.00. 51 Hebron, A Century in Review 1988 - second printing 2006 with a 16 page index published by the Hebron Preservation Society , richly illustrated, written by a number of Hebron residents over a 10 year period, 292 pgs., $30.00 52 The History of the Glens Falls Feeder Canal - Michael LaCross, softcover, 1997, 32 pgs.$5.00 218 History of Pilot Knob (4 volume set) - The story of a Lake George, NY community as told by its citizens 1994 - 2000 by Pilot knob Association $35.00 56 The House-Wifes Skill in Cookery - G. Markam, reprint, softcover pamphlet, 31 pgs. $2.00 255 Hometown Memories Bk. I - Recollections of Glens Falls in the 30's, 40's and before. 2nd print 2000, pgs. 150, softcover. $18.00 256 Hometown Memories Bk. II - Recollections of Glens Falls in the 30's, 40's and before. 2002, pgs. 242, softcover. $14.00 59 I Remember Argyle - A book of memories - Argyle History Group, 1998, 2nd Edition, softcover, 236 pgs. $20.00 60 An Introduction to Historic Resources in Washington County, NY - a greatly condensed illustrated history of each town. (1976) reprint 1984, softcover, 133 pgs. $10.00 61 Issac Joques- 1646 Discoverer of Lake George -T.J. Campbell, 1992, reprint, softcover, 60pgs. $9.00 63 Johnny Appleseed- Will Moses 2001, hardcover, illus. 48 pgs. $16.99 227 Lake Cossayuna & Vicinity -History and Portraits of the Past - by Rose Bain, softcover, Illus 260 pgs., pub. 2007; Many newspaper articles, editorials and anecdotes plus over 300 photos. $25.00 68 “Liberty or Death!” The Northern Campaigns in the American Revolutionary War, - Gregory T. Edgar, 1994 softcover, 397 pp. $34.00 - 69 Linen Threads & Broom Twines: Vol. 1, An Irish & American Album and Directory of the People of the Dunbarton Mill, Greenwich, New York, 1879-1952 (2 Volumes) - William T. Ruddock $22.00 - 70 Linen Threads & Broom Twines: Vol. 2, An Irish & American Album and Directory of the People of the Dunbarton Mill, Greenwich, New York, 1879-1952 (2 Volumes) - William T. Ruddock $35.00 - 230 Marching to Save Nation, the 123rd New York Infantry - Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Tennessee Guerrilla Warefare, Atlanta Campaign, March to the Sea, Carolinas Campaign. - by Jeffrey H. Jones 2007, softcover, photos, 409 pgs., notes, bibliog., appendix. $19.95 73 The Making of American Resorts: Saratoga Springs, Ballston Spa, Lake George, - Theodore Corbett 2001, softcover, illus., 285 pgs. $28.50 75 Memoir and Official Correspondence of Gen. John Stark - Caleb Stark, (1877) reprint, new full name and subject index, softcover 528pp. $38.50 209 North Country Cooking - Dorothy & Bob Igoe, - Old favorite recipes from the I-Go-Inn and friends. 1955, 99 pgs., $12.50 82 Old Fort Edward - William H. Hill, reprint of 1929 edition, hardcover, 383 pp. $45.00 84 Old Lake George Hotels - Betty Ahearn Buckell, 1986, softcover, photos, 99 pgs. $15.00 254 JUST PUBLISHED Our History A Series of Articles Written for the Monthly Newsletter of the Dresden Baptist Church of Clemons, New York, 11/17/2000 to 1/15/2008 - Agnes Peterson, 2009, softcover, photos, 99 pgs. $12.00 77 Next Year in Salem: A Chronicle of the Home Front During Worl War II 1940-1945. Life in Salem, New York was much like a N. Rockwell painting. The stories and rare photographs found here put a face on history, hardcover,189 pgs. $28.50 86 One Hundred Years of the George Satterlee Hose Company 1874-1974 compiled by Fred G. Godfrey, 44 pgs. $5.00 87 Pages from My Pawlett (VT) Scrapbook - Dorothy B. Offensend, 1998, softcover, 246 pgs. $17.00 184 Pages from My Pawlett (VT) Scrapbook Book 2 - Dorothy B. Offensend, 2002, softcover, 246 pgs. $17.00 90 The Pember - The story of this museum of natural history in Granville, NY - Delight Gartlein and Alan Pistonus, 1996, softcover, 95 pgs. $7.00 236 Rangers and Redcoates on the Hudson - David R. Starbuck, softcover, illus. 139 pgs. 2004 Exploring the past on Rogers Island, the birthplace of the U. S. Army Rangers. $19.95 98 Rogers Island Achaeological Site - Dr. David Starbuck, softfcover, 1992, 16 pgs. $3.00 211 Saratoga Reader - Field Horne, 2004, softcover 284 pgs., Writing about an American Village 1749 - 1900, Illus. $29.95 101 Silent Night - Will Moses, hard cover, illus., 40 pgs. $16.99 102 So, Ye Want To Be A Reenactor? A Living History Handbook - Brenton and Karen Kemmer, 2001, softcover, 149 pgs. A common sense approach to getting started in reenacting. $17.00 259 JUST PUBLISHED Strength Without Compromise - Teri Gay, Womanly Influence and Political Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Rural Upstate New York. 2009, Hard Cover, 167 pgs. $30.00 103 Stuff - Betty Ahearn Buckell, 1992, softcover, 175 pgs. $15.00 233 A Taste of the North Country - Adirondack Regional Recipes - Wendy Harrington, softcover, 71pgs. Delicious recipes that focus on flavor. $8.95 109 That Sterling Soldier: The Life of David A. Russell - A.D. Slade, 1995, seven illus., 220 pgs. $30.00 112 The Thistle and the Eagle - Karen A. Kirkpatrick, 2000, softcover, illus., 96 pgs. $18.50 242 Upstate New York, Towns That We Love - Elizabeth J. Cockey & Barton M. Cockey, 2008, Richly Illustrated by the author artist about the Washington County area, hardcover, 85 pgs. New. $22.95 118 Washington’s Farewell: The Final Parting with his Officers after Victory in the Revolution Stuart Murray, hardcover, illus. 216 pgs. $21.00 258 JUST PUBLISHED Warren County (New York): Its People & Their History Over Time - This work constitutes an eight year effort to produce a social history, examining the lives of the people of the county along with the significant events that have passed. 2009, Hard Cover, Illus., 495 pgs. $40.00 119 We Are in the Fight Today The Civil War Diaries of Horace P Mathews & King S. Hammond - Kenneth A. Perry, softcover, 234 pgs. $23.50 179 The Western Vermont Slate Belt: Fair Haven - Dorothy Backus Offensend, softcover, 2003, 90pgs. $10.00 234 Women with Altitude - Carol Stone White, softcover, illus., 282 pgs. Tales of challenging the Adirondack High Peaks in Winter. $19.95 |
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COLLECTIBLE SERIES: Available in 3 different forms: large, flat stand-alone facade $16.00, ornament $8.00, magnet $8.00.
1874 Rexleigh Covered Bridge Jackson/Salem, New York
133 Large, flat stand-alone facade $16.00 135 Ornament $8.00 136 Magnet $8.00
1903 All Saints Chapel (North Granville, New York)
137 Large, flat stand-alone facade $16.00 139 Ornament $8.00 140 Magnet $8.00
141 Large, flat stand-alone facade $16.00 143 Ornament $8.00 144 Magnet $8.00
5th in Series - The William Miller Chapel (Low Hampton, New York)
147 Ornament $8.00 148 Magnet $8.00 6th in Series - The Old Fort House (Fort Edward, New York)
149 Large, flat stand-alone facade $16.00 151 Ornament $8.00 152 Magnet $8.00
7th in Series - The Church of St. Mary's - St. Paul's (Hudson Falls, New York)
153 Large, flat stand-alone facade $16.00 155 Ornament $8.00 156 Magnet $8.00
8th in Series - Salem Court House (Salem, New York)
158 Large, flat stand-alone facade $16.00 160 Ornament $8.00 161 Magnet $8.00
9th in Series - Easton Friends Meeting House (Easton, New York)
163 Large, flat stand-alone facade $16.00 165 Ornament $8.00 166 Magnet $8.00
10th in Series - Mary McClellan Hospital (Cambridge, New York)
168 Large, flat stand-alone facade $16.00 169 Ornament $8.00 170 Magnet $8.00
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