WSPL Local History: Local History at the Delaware Free Branch

The Delaware Free Local History Project is a program committed to preserving local history by organizing and archiving the library’s present holdings of local history for public access, and by expanding and curating it for posterity.

Highlights of the Local History Project holdings to date:

~ The Curtis Papers

Numerous primary sources, i.e. documents, articles, and personal papers by and about the Curtis family, community leaders and original historians, many exclusive to the Delaware Free Branch of WSPL, donated by Mary Curtis and curated here with her continuing guidance.

~ Multi folder files on the village of Callicoon Depot from circa 1840 to the present village of Callicoon.

~ Files for various individual townships and villages comprising the Upper Delaware community in New York and Pennsylvania.

~ Files for regional infrastructure, industries, and institutions, i.e.  “Route 97;” “Rafting,” “St. Joseph’s Seraphic Seminary.”

~ The Erie Railroad: Various anniversary histories and ephemera.

~ Selected artifacts and memorabilia.

~Coming Attraction!  Index to the 1855 NYS Census decoded.

Compiled by Dorothy Hartz, Local History Project Volunteer