The Edwards History Center

The calendar for 2006 has pictures of early settlers, a business picture, scenes and buildings of local interest.  The cost is $5.00 plus $.60 per calendar (one per envelope) and it is available at the History Center.

 

Anyone wanting to buy this should contact LaVerne Freeman, Town Historian, 61 Maple Ave., Edwards, NY 13635, or by phone or e-mail.  

Order must be pre-paid.  Checks should be made out to LaVerne Freeman.

The Land of the White Plume - Trout Lake through the 1930's with many pictures and history of the Lake.  This book is $18.00, to mail is $1.42 media mail or $3.13 first class.  It is available at the History Center.

 

Anyone wanting to buy this should contact LaVerne Freeman, Town Historian, 61 Maple Ave., Edwards, NY 13635, or by phone or e-mail.  

Order must be pre-paid.  Checks should be made out to LaVerne Freeman.

The Edwards Bicentennial book is $10.00.  To mail is $1.42 for media mail and $1.75 for first class.  This is a reprint of the book from 1976 and is available at the History Center.

Shown is the cover of Volume II, picturing Main Street, Edwards before the fire of July 4, 1894, of the Diaries of William H. Brown and Nancy A. Brown.  William was the son of Robert Brown, 1819 Scottish immigrant.  The Edwards Historical Association was given a limited number of copies, to sell, by the editors of these books.  This local couple kept diaries for a number of years.  They were interested in the activities of the community as well as their family so many items of local historical and genealogical interest are included in this 183 page soft cover book.  The editors wrote the book in the exact wording of the entries of the couple so one will find phonetic spelling and colloquialisms, making more interesting reading.  The price is $10.00 plus cost of postage and envelope making $12.50 total if mailed.

Volume I, well over 200 pages, will have to be ordered from the publisher ... Heritage Books, Inc., Publishing Division, 1540 Pointer Ridge Place, Bowie, Maryland 20716.  The Browns were ancestors of Dick Brown, Edwards resident and former Town Supervisor.