The Old Town of Eaton will be cerebrating its 229th year on Memorial Day Monday. The weekend follows a traditional cerebration held in the town each year, a town whose history is steeped in the time after the Revolutionary War. Settled by many veterans of the war and part of the original; settlement of Madison …
Author: Mary Messere
Melville Landon – Famous Writer
Melville Landon - Known to the World as Eli PerkinsEaton and its many stories and pieces of history blend well with the area writers,,,some of whom. not only lived here but returned frequently to visit in the summer or even in the winter. One Morse family relative sent a letter to her family that spoke …
The Great Chenango Canal
On October 26, 1825, at the “Wedding of the Waters”, America’s first civil engineers became legend. The NYS Historical Marker on the site of the house of James Geddes in the Town of Camillus, on busy Genesee Street near the Fairmount Shopping Center, cannot possibly tell the whole story of New York’s Canal …
NEW YEAR ... NEW BEGINNINGS This year has slipped away and was still in the grips of Covid-19 and all of its variants. This leaving small groups like ours up in the air for events and fundraising. The museum continued opening every other Sunday or by appointment for the most part, not closing this year …
Missionaries of Eaton
While working on a new book named “The History You Never Knew” the past few days, I came across much information that has actually never come to light in regular history books. Many of the young folk in Eaton actually tried to become missionaries to exotic lands many were successful. It seems the lure of Burma and …
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