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Scope and Contents This small collection represents a handful of historic documents and ephemera kept by Ken Mabey related to the history of the hamlet of Cornwallville, Durham, NY. Of note are two cardpaper handbills of the Mitchell Hollow Telephone Company listing their rules and regulation and the names and corresponding ring sequences of residents connected to the phone system. Also included is a manuscript history of the Durham Central School.

Scope and Contents Collection comprises a selection of Deeds and miscellaneous papers of the Reed and Hull families of Durham. The majority of the early deeds within pertain to a selection of lots in the towns of Durham, Greene County, and Conesville, Schoharie County - The Durham lots being located along route 145 in the vicinity of and adjoining the old Church lot on Meeting House Hill, and the Conesville documents relating to parcels on a the road from Cooksburg to Potters Hollow. Later documents pertain to...

Scope and Contents Collection comprises a selection of materials which have historically resided in the historic home of Anson Strong in Cornwallville, a hamlet in the Town of Durham. Of particular note are some early materials relating to land ownership which convey the location of early businesses in the vicinity of Cornwallville, as well as materials related to the boarding of Nancy Merwin who was likely a ward of the overseers of the poor. Also included is an indenture between a farmer in Durham and the...

Scope and Contents Collection comprises a small selection of documents related to Stiefel Labs and their lines of products and services as offered from the mid-1960s through the 1990s. Also included are an assortment of news clippings, a trade magazine detailing Stiefel Lab's buyout of a soap manufacturer, biographies of upper management, and a description of the research facility at Oak Hill. Photographic materials from this collection which include scenes of their original Oak Hill plant, groundbreaking...