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Year Round
Monday - Thursday 9AM - 5PM*
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* While we do everything we can to maintain the above hours, weather, limited staffing and other events/holidays may affect our hours. Please keep an eye out on our website and Facebook for anything that may temporarily change our hours. You can also call or email us to confirm if there are any changes.
We will be closing early due to worsening road conditions, 12/10/2025.
2004 Volume 15 #1
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover Photo: Top of page, The First Baptist Church, Hallstead, PA, built in 1831. Below is the Second Church, built in 1895
First Baptist Church, Hallstead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg 03
Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg 08
Getting Farmer out of Mud Part 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg 09
Remembering the Railroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg 15
Herrick Township Census, 1840 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg 19
Lucy Griffis' Journey, 1837 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg 23
Warners of Ararat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg 33
Orphan's Court Records cont'd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg 34
Orlando Bagley, Rev. War Veteran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg 39
Marriages & Deaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg 43
Books for Sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg 51