Transcribed by Bruce R. Tucker of the Alfred Historical Committee Lawyer Samuel Came did local work for the R.G.Dunn collection agency...

By Bruce R. Tucker, Alfred Historical Society The summer of 1812 found Samuel Wormwood, joiner, of Alfred with little to do. Samuel was...

by Bruce R. Tucker of the Alfred Historical Committee Seldom, when we grab a bag of flour or loaf of bread off the supermarket shelf, do...

by Bruce R. Tucker, Alfred Historical Society Sweating and foaming, the horse clattered into Morgan Lewis’s Alfred dooryard. The mud...

by Bruce R. Tucker of the Alfred Historical Committee [Taken from Bennett Quarry paper] PARSONS LIBRARY It was during Charles Bennett’s...

by Bruce R. Tucker of the Alfred Historical Committee Isaiah Whitten leaned heavily on his hoe and gazed across the fields, sweat running...

by Bruce R. Tucker of the Alfred Historical Committee Local legend says that Eliphalet Griffin, local blacksmith, was hastening to...

by Bruce R. Tucker, Alfred Historical George Came Diary: Sunday Nov. 3, 1861: "Great Fire in the village last night. Mr. Stimson’s house...

by Bruce Tucker, Alfred Historical Society The concept of having an exotic manufacturing facility like an embroidery mill in Alfred is...

by Bruce Tucker, Alfred Historical Society When we think of York County’s great landed proprietaries, the first name that springs to mind...

By Bruce Tucker, Alfred Historical Society The fall of Quebec in 1759 signaled the end of France’s domination in Canada and a cessation...

By Bruce R. Tucker, Alfred Historical Society Alfred village did not always look as it does today. In 1800, the village area was largely...

by Bruce R. Tucker, Alfred Historical Society Historically the black population of Alfred and Waterboro has never been large, in fact, it...

By Bruce R. Tucker, Alfred Historical Society The arrival of the railroad in Alfred was an eagerly awaited event. There were few things a...

By Bruce R. Tucker, Alfred Historical Society At the close of the 18th century, Alfred began to feel growing pains. It had evolved from a...

By Bruce R. Tucker, Alfred Historical Society The spring of 1862 arrived as all springs do in Alfred, eagerly anticipated and full of...

by Bruce R. Tucker, Oct. 2020 The Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the battlefields of WWI. Only 3% of...