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      • Chemung, NY Cemetery Listing, June 1935 >
        • Batterson Burial Plot >
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            • Cooley Cemetery
      • Drake Cemetery >
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            • French Cemetery
      • Hicks Cemetery - (North Chemung) Town of Baldwin, NY >
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            • Lockwood Cemetery
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            • Riverside Cemetery
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          • Wells (Hilltop) Cemetery >
            • Wynkoop Cemetery
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      • School Teachers in the Town of Chemung, NY >
        • "Schools in the Town of Chemung", by Elsie Thomas (1976) >
          • Waverly Academy & Schools >
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            • Newspaper Articles on Chemung Schools from the Past
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  • History of the Lower Chemung River Valley
    • Historical Maps >
      • Six Nations Homeland Prior to Colonization
      • 1777 New York Map >
        • 1784 Montgomery County, New York
      • 1788 Town of Chemung Case Map
      • 1853 Chemung County Map with Lithographs
      • 1869 Town of Chemung Map >
        • 1869 North Chemung Map
        • Athens, Athens Twp., Sayre - Bradford County, PA 1869 Map
      • 1902 Topographical Map - Town of Chemung & Outlying Area
      • 1904 - Town of Chemung Map
      • STC - GIS Portal - Chemung County
      • 2014 Wildlife Management Unit Boundary Map
    • Mile Markers
    • Junction Canal
    • Chemung River, New York >
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    • Aerial Photos, Town of Chemung & Surrounding Areas
    • The Mastodon & Wooly Mammoth
    • Animals, Amphibians, Fish & Birds in the Lower Chemung River Valley
    • USS Chemung - Named for the Chemung River, New York State
  • The Revolutionary War (American War of Independence)
    • The Battle of Chemung, August 13, 1779
    • Revolutionary War Soldiers buried in the Town of Chemung >
      • Headstone Replacement Project
    • Newtown Battlefield State Park
    • Newtown Battlefield Monument
    • The Department of the Geographer
    • The Knoll Cemetery
    • Mass Grave Where British & Indians Fell, 1779
    • Historic Markers and Monuments >
      • Driving Tour - Battles of Chemung & Newtown
    • Fort Sullivan, Tioga Point, Athens, PA
  • Formation of Chemung County, New York
  • The Abraham Middaugh House, Chemung NY (con't from home page)
    • A Description of the Abraham Middaugh House, (con't.)
    • A Touch of Past , Abraham Middaugh House
    • Gardens at the Abraham Middaugh House, Chemung NY
    • Whimsical Holidays (decorations)
  • Life on the Chemung
  • Quilting & Hand spinning
    • Carding & Fulling
    • Rag Dolls
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Feature Stories of the Past, Town of Chemung

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Around the Town, PRESENT Day
Fall Foliage 2019
​Includes: 
*  Maple Hill State Forest, Chemung, NY
​* 2015 Exhibit-Chemung Valley History                         Museum
*  Local Businesses with  Links
*  NYS local Historic Markers & Monuments
*  Chemung River-White Wagon Park
*  2015 Chemung River Bridge Replacement                  Project
*   Fall Foliage 2014
​*   Fall Foliage 2015 

*   Fall Foliage 2016​
​​*   Fall Foliage 2017  
​*   Fall Foliage 2018
*   Fall Foliage 2019



Around the Town. PAST
 Includes: 
*  Families, Farms, Business
*  Hamlets & Locales, Town  of  Chemung
​*  Old Businesses in the Town of  Chemung
*  Chemung Scrapbook:
    Vintage Newspaper Clippings & Columns
*  Snippets of the Past​

*  "Downtown Chemung", Great Narrative
*  Antiquities,​ photos of yesteryear
*  Vintage Advertisements 
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*  The Old Thresher Granary
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Main St., Chemung, NY, 1907 (Old Rt. 17 is now County Rt. 60)


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History of the Lower Chemung River Valley, with Old photos

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Town of Chemung History

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The Abraham Middaugh House
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A Description of the Abraham Middaugh House

The landscape of New York State was formed by glaciers during the late Paleozoic Era, in what was called the Pleistocene Epoch, lasting from 1.8 million to 11,000 years ago, known as the ice ages. Carved out by these glaciers, the Chemung is an old river that winds through the Southern Tier of New York and North East Pennsylvania before feeding into the Susquehanna River below Athens, PA  It eventually empties into the estuary, Chesapeake Bay and eventually into the Atlantic Ocean. The history is rich along the old Chemung. The Lower Chemung River Valley has long been a home to Native Americans. The Iroquois Six Nations with mainly the Seneca Tribe and perhaps Cayuga being the most prominent...
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The first settlers began moving in as early as 1780.  It was not until 1786 and upward that the majority of newcomers moved in
to claim their parcels of land, by navigating the river or using footpaths.  They carried with them their belongings: tools, seeds, their tinderbox and items needed to start a new life in the wilderness, and perhaps a keepsake or family heirloom.   Soon after arriving they began to organize their town. They were hard working, dedicated individuals  of mostly European descent.  Log homes sprung up all along the river and tributaries with the pungent smell of
wood burning and smoke billowing from their crude chimneys. Wild animals posed a
problem for the early settlers. Wolf, bobcat and black bear to name a few. They faced many hardships in the early days of the town...
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Many of the earliest settlers to Chemung and surrounding areas built log cabins of which some of their remains can be found today. Some were primitive, others were two story imposing structures. Other settlers built post and beam structures with hand hewn logs reminiscent of the homes they left behind in the Connecticut Valley, while others chose the style of the New England Central Chimney. Some were primitive made from sawmill rough cut, stick built wood or pit sawn, either got the job done. Either way many of the  architectural styles in the area were determined by the builders’ nationality or popular style of the time, Federal and a bit later Greek Revival were a few of the favorites.  The Abraham Middaugh House, dates circa 1805.  It has undergone many changes through the years. It was a non imposing frame structure of one and a half stories tall.
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The small frame home built by Abraham VanAken Middaugh is considered a single room frame house with a loft, a 1 1/2 story house. It sat on a foundation of pilings with possibly a fruit cellar. The home had a fireplace in which to cook meals and to provide heat. The loft was comprised of one or two rooms with a ladder to gain access. Furnishings were most likely sparce with perhaps a few heirlooms as the young couple started their family.
In Colonial America during the early settling lots under British rule, requirements set down by the crown instructed "each of said families to build and finish a dwelling house upon his home lot, of the following dimensions: viz. 18 feet square and 7 foot stud at least". Although our home was built after British rule, many early settlers used this standard to build their homes. 
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