The Alma story, 1795-1850 Author: Shear, Hazel M. Description: The Alma story, 1795-1850. Wellsville, N.Y.: H.M. Shear, 1959-1960. View this book online Subject(s): Alma (N.Y.) -- History New York (State) -- Allegany County -- Alma Table of Contents: Part I : Title page Part I : Front matter Part I : Preface Part I : Contents Part I : The forbidden trail Part I : Divided waterways Part I : Trails that became roads Part I : Between treaties and settlement Part I : "He located his lot" Part I : The Dikes settlement road Part I : Map of Early Alma Part I : Aread of Allegany County towns Part I : Beginnings Part I : The Wadsworths appear Part I : Deeds from the Wadsworths Part I : The partition deed Part I : The town a wilderness Part I : Redwater Creek Part I : The Eleven-Mile Part I : Alma in the 1879 history of Allegany Co Part I : Roads from the highway book Part I : The four-mile woods Part I : Settlers and lumbermen Part I : The northern part Part I : Of Warren of Myron Hough Part I : John Longcore Part I : The Hurlbutts Part I : Hunter, Harding, William Smith Part I : The Stebbins Family Part I : The Allens Part I : The Emersons Part I : The Elsters Part I : Pikeville and the Pikes Part I : The Souhmayd Family Part I : Niles Hill Part I : Alma Hill Part I : Just over the line Part I : John A. Foland Part I : Oswayo Lumber Co Part I : Notes from Ernest P. Dutton Part I : Strickland & Co Part I : The tram roads Part I : The Plank Road Part I : The blacksmiths Part I : The schools Part I : The first store Part I : The Claire Family Part I : Some other people Part I : Underground railroad Part I : The Irish Settlement Part I : Sunnyside Cemetery, Alma Part II : Title page Part II : Front matter Part II : Contents The Alma story : Part II--1850-1900 Part II : Mills in the 1855 census Part II : Lumbering operations Part II : Notes from 1874-75 directory Part II : Hemlock Part II : Daniel Shaw in the 1855 census Part II : Other facts from 55 Part II : Gleanings from 1860 Part II : Some Canadian settlers Part II : The Irish settlement Part II : The German settlers Part II : A few Englishmen Part II : The background Part II : Town government Part II : Almaa first town meeting Part II : Duties of town officers Part II : Watering troughs Part II : Horse thief trail Part II : Counterfeiting Part II : The Civil War Part II : Recruiting station Part II : Marshall Phillips Post, G.A.R. No. 640 Part II : Oil Part II : Some drilling data Part II : Dropping the go-devil Part II : Oil well in the woods Part II : Gas Part II : Some old school records Part II : Schools in 1869 atlas Part II : Religion Part II : Double assessments and other items Part II : Some interesting statistics Part II : The apple business Part II : Maple molasses Part II : The railroad that never came Part II : Allentown Cemetery

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