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The Old Stone Fort at Schoharie continues as one of the main points of interest in the Schoharie valley as shown by the increased registration. During the months of April and May 2,938 visitors registered, exceeding last year's total for the same period by over 700. Of this number 294 were residents of Schoharie county, 2,386 from other counties in the State, 251 from other States, and seven from foreign countries. Among the foreign visitors was Baroness de Luze, Saumur, France, who is staying with friends at Briar cliff Manor, N. Y., and while at the museum stated that her husband and family were in occupied France; also John Panagopoulos, Olimpia, Greece,a wireless operator on the Greek freighter, Embiricos, now dock ed in New York harbor, who related through his interpreter, some of the conditions then existing in his home land. Groups visiting the museum since its opening were: Middleburgh Cen tral school, English class and seventh grade, Cherry Valley Central school, eighth grade, Cherry Valley, N.Y. Castleton Union school, Sciences classes, Castleton-on-Hudson, N. Y.; East Herkimer school No. 2, seventh and eighth grades, Herkimer, N. Y.; District No. 7 Dorlop, N. Y.; Old Central Bridge, Schoharie Junction, Hyndsville and Janesville Districts; 4H Group of East Durham; Boy Scout troop 38, Ballston Lake; about 7 members of the Upper Susquehan na Valley Historical Society, and sev eral Grand Lodge officers and mem bers of the Order of the Eastern Star. Some of the recent accessions to the n museum acknowledged by the cur ator, Myron Vroman, are one of the first bathtubs used about 1870, and pictures of the mother and grand father of the late Perry E. Taylor, presented by Mrs. Perry E. Taylor of Schoharie; several household uten sils donated by Walter Schaeffer of Schoharie; picture of blacksmith and wagon shop (about 1860) of Tobay Feeck at Gallupville, gift of the late Frank Feeck of Middleburgh, a col lection of Early American dishes used ‘Continued from page one about 180 years ago by Moses Ter pening, donated by a granddaughter, Mrs. Bertha A. Mann, Middleburgh; pamphlet “Citation of Opinions by former Judge and Surrogate, Don Beekman, Middleburgh; “History of Shorts Springs and analysis of Shar! on Water,” published in I8M by Dr. F. S. Fonda; Old Indentures of the Schoolcraft family, gift of Mrs. John Wilber of Schoharie; a skipple of property of Johannes Ball, Chairman of the Committee of Safety of Scho harie county during the Revolution, gift of Mrs. Clinton Taylor, Sidney, N.Y. an old sausage stuffer with stand, gift of Mrs. Angus Warner of Gallupville.
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Cobleskill Index
Cobleskill, New York, US
Thu, Jun 12, 1941
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