Shaker Credit Report
Transcribed by Bruce R. Tucker of the Alfred Historical Committee Lawyer Samuel Came did local work for the R.G.Dunn collection agency...
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Samuel Wormwood’s Travail
By Bruce R. Tucker, Alfred Historical Society The summer of 1812 found Samuel Wormwood, joiner, of Alfred with little to do. Samuel was...
That Noble Threshing Machine
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...
Morgan Lewis - Revolutionary Soldier
by Bruce R. Tucker, Alfred Historical Society Sweating and foaming, the horse clattered into Morgan Lewis’s Alfred dooryard. The mud...
Parsons Memorial Library Construction
by Bruce R. Tucker of the Alfred Historical Committee [Taken from Bennett Quarry paper] PARSONS LIBRARY It was during Charles Bennett’s...
Griffin's Family
by Bruce R. Tucker of the Alfred Historical Committee Local legend says that Eliphalet Griffin, local blacksmith, was hastening to...
The Village Fire of Nov. 1861: Replacing the Town Hall and the Village School buildings
by Bruce R. Tucker, Alfred Historical George Came Diary: Sunday Nov. 3, 1861: "Great Fire in the village last night. Mr. Stimson’s house...
Alfred Embroidery Mill
by Bruce Tucker, Alfred Historical Society The concept of having an exotic manufacturing facility like an embroidery mill in Alfred is...
The Coxhall Proprietors
by Bruce Tucker, Alfred Historical Society When we think of York County’s great landed proprietaries, the first name that springs to mind...
Alfred's First Family: The Coffins
By Bruce Tucker, Alfred Historical Society The fall of Quebec in 1759 signaled the end of France’s domination in Canada and a cessation...
Berry Tavern: "that eligible situation in Alfred Village
By Bruce R. Tucker, Alfred Historical Society Alfred village did not always look as it does today. In 1800, the village area was largely...
Free Persons of Color: The Averys of Waterboro, ME
by Bruce R. Tucker, Alfred Historical Society Historically the black population of Alfred and Waterboro has never been large, in fact, it...
I Hear the Trains a-Coming
By Bruce R. Tucker, Alfred Historical Society The arrival of the railroad in Alfred was an eagerly awaited event. There were few things a...
Alfred’s Bank
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...
Drafting Soldiers is all the Talk
By Bruce R. Tucker, Alfred Historical Society The spring of 1862 arrived as all springs do in Alfred, eagerly anticipated and full of...
THE FLU IN ALFRED 1918 & 1919
by Bruce R. Tucker, Oct. 2020 The Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the battlefields of WWI. Only 3% of...
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