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Historians & History Resources

Local Sites on the State Register of Historic Places

Farm History Articles & Stories

Barn Raisings Are a Unique Piece of America's Past

Farm Boys Were a Tough Breed

New Life For an Old Building

The Story of the Old Green Barn

The Threshing Barn: A Window into the Past

Timber Frame Barns Stretched Into 20th Century

Early Artists of Newark Valley

Alida Virginia Noble by Gavin Callaghan

Alida Virginia Noble by Martha J. Schneider

Belle Donley Smith

Conclusion by Martha J. Schneider

George Byron Sutton

LeeRoy J. Tappan

Mary E. Jenks

Schneider Bibliography

Schneider Footnotes

Susan Catherine Moore Waters

Looms and Wheels

What is a Barn Loom?

A Small Linen Loom at Newark Valley

The Spinning Wheel Sleuth & Farnham Research

Farnham Family Textile Tools

How to Identify Farnham Flax Wheels

Identifying Farnham Great Wheels

A Rare Farnham Accelerating Wheel

Old-Time Recipes

A Note from Tamara

English Plum Pudding

French Rolls

Mince Pie

Parsnips and Carrots

Plum Pudding

Pumpkin Pie

Raspberry Shrub

Roast Beef

Turkey

Yorkshire Pudding

Stories from the Natural World

Select stories, statistical data, and excerpts are included under the heading for each year range.

1800-1899

Forest and Trees

Indigenous Products of the County

James Hanna's Encounter With the Last Wolf of the Plains

Selections from Gay's Gazetteer (1785-1888)

Town of Berkshire

Town of Candor

Town of Newark Valley

Town of Nichols

Town of Owego

Town of Tioga

1900-1909

A Deer Running Wild

An Unusual Sight

Driving the Wolves

Hunting for Bear

1910-1919

A Black Bear Roams the Hills of Tioga

A Disease Which is Fatal to Chestnut Trees is Discovered

An Enormous Trout Caught in the Owego Creek

Eel Weirs in the River

Forest Fires Sweep Over Newark Valley Farms

Owego School Children to Plant 1,000 Trees

The Great American Bird, a Bald-Headed Eagle

Two Bald Headed Eagles Caught in Southern Tier

The Last Survivor of the Wild Pigeons

1920-1929

An Unknown Hunter Shoots a Deer in Owego

A Century Old Tree is Felled at Newark Valley

A Spencer Hunter Kills a Wolf Near West Danby

A Wild Deer Causes a Team of Horses, Owned by a Spencer Man, to Run Away

Farmers Seeing Three Wolves Near Halsey Valley Recalls Wolf Drive a Century Ago

Federal Game Warden Receives Reports About Deer

Unseasonable Wild Strawberries

Thirteen Plantations of Trees Are Started in Tioga County

Seventeen Million Trees Are Planted This Year

Shooting a Wild Deer Costs Three Endicott Brothers $108.50 Each

Sportsmen Are Opposed to Open Season for Killing of Deer in Tioga County

The Chestnut Tree is Doomed to Extinction

Thousands Come to See Willow Bridge Beavers

Three Black Bears Make Their Appearance in the Beaver Country in This County

Two Beavers, Rare for this Part of the Country, Return to Haunts of Ancestors

1930-1934

A Buck Deer Swims the River at Owego

A Coyote, a Small Species of Wolf, Is Shot by a Germany Hill Hunter

Another Deer is Shot in Candor Township

Candor is to Have First State Reforestation

Despicable Hunters Kill Two Deer in This County

Dutch Elm Disease is not so Alarming as Reported

Eagles Are Seen in the Vicinity of Apalachin

Explains Plan of State Acquiring Useless Lands

Forestry Expert Declares That the Chestnut Tree Will Not Come Back

Motor-Car is Damaged When Deer Strikes It

State Takes Over Owego and Newark Valley Lands

1935-1939

1,651,000 Trees for Tioga County in 1937

A Pair of Panthers Are Believed to Be Living in Newark Valley Hills

A Story of the Higbe Home from As We Remember the Village of Newark Valley from 1880 to 1937

A Wild Animal, Believed to Be a Black Panther, Roams the Town of Nichols

Believe a Wolf is Seen at Gibson Corners

CCC Camp at Strait's Corners Is Occupied by Colored World War Veterans

County Men Educators Oppose Open Deer Season

Cows at Willseyville Adopt a Stray Fawn

English Starlings Are Increasing in Numbers at a Tremendous Rate

Evidences of Wild Bear Are Found Near Apalachin and Waits

Farmers of Tioga Co. Divided in Opinion on State Purchase of Submarginal Lands

Forest Field Day Contest on O.F.A. Tract

Germany Hill Hunters Pursuing Wolf at Waits

Hunter Gets his Deer With Butt of Shotgun

Ice Harvest in Owego Is to Begin Very Soon

Kansas and Colorado Dust Settles on Owego

More Wild Black Bears Are Seen In Different Parts of Town of Owego

More Wildlife Springs Up -- A Beaver and a Black Bear Are Seen

Soil Conservation Work Has Already Been Performed by the CCC Workers

State is Winning fight to Save Old Elm Trees

Tioga County Dairymen Oppose Open Deer Hunting Season by a Vote of 10 to 1

Tioga County Farmers Ask Open Deer Season

Strait's Corners CCC Camp to Close Oct. 10
First Tioga County Forestry Field Day Proves Successful

Wild Animal, Said to Be a Panther, Attacks Dogs of Hunters at Richford

Young Black Bear Seen By Trout Fishermen

1940-1949

Beavers Reappear In an Old -Time Haunt

Bucky, Jr., of the Fields and Forests, Writes A Letter Anent the Recent Deer Season

'Bucky,' the Educated Deer, Writes What May Prove to Be His Valedictory

'Bucky,' the Veteran of the Woods, Is No More--Except in Spirit, Writes 'Bud'

'Bucky' Writes His Annual Message About the Last Invasion of the Animal Kingdom

Deer Destroy $1,000 Worth of Rare Shrubs

Deer Season Opens on Sunday, Nov. 24

Evidence that Chestnut Trees Are Returning

Only a Few Does Shot in Tioga County

Oscar Settle, Aged 90 Years, Operates East Newark Farm Bought By Grandfather

Owego Angler Lands a Shad, Which Is the First Caught Here in 100 Years

P. S. Farnham, of Owego, Writes That Gun Clubs Are Not to Blame for Open Deer Season

Submits a Stretch of the Imagination Story of a Meeting of a Deer and a Human

Town of Tioga Woman Condemns Deer Killing Season and Scathingly Writes of Lawlessness

Wild Deer Remain to Be Attraction

'Wildlife Bucky, Jr.,' Comes Across With a Letter to 'Bud' His Protector

Stories from Tioga County's Past

1907 Owego Gazette Advertisements

An Invitation to the Trout Ponds

A Remembrance of Margaret Williams

A Second Look at Edward R. Eastman

A Word from Bucky the Deer

Blacks Served With Distinction in Two World Wars

Church Helped Maintain and Strengthen Black Community

"Did You Buy From Your Local Merchant Today?"

Forests in New York's Southern Tier

Germany Hill

How Can We Save the Town?

Immigrant Churches in Tioga County

Laban Jenks, The Pioneer

Memories of Christmas

Notes on the Black Burial Ground

"One Woman, One Vote" The Campaign in Tioga County

Reflections On World War II

Rollie Noble

Rollie Noble & His Remarkable Flag

Save the Town! Save the Countryside!

Tales from the Merchant Marine

The Black CCC Camp

The 'Departed Glory' of an Owego Singer

The Forgotten Burial Ground

The Kobylarz Family in World War II

The Mystery of the Pumpkin Pine

The Rollie Noble Flag

The Story of a Polish-American Farm Wife

The Underground Railroad in Tioga County

Timeline of Afro-American History in Tioga County

Miscellaneous Interest & Trivia

A Black Cemetery

A Champion Tree

A Newark Valley Farmer's Trip Into the Twilight Zone

Gypsies in Tioga

History in a Tree Stump!

How Glenmary Got Its Name

Owego's Black Baseball Team

Roads With an Eastern European Origin

Stockings 101

The Black Church

The Gypsies Are Coming!

The Orthodox Cross

The Polish Church

The Return of the Whitetail Deer

The Rollie Noble Flag Trivia

Tioga County Immigrants

Tioga's First Draftees During World War II

Tioga's First World War I Casualty

When America Had a Different View of Weight

When Colorado Dust Settled on Tioga

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Alphabetical

1907 Owego Gazette Advertisements

1,651,000 Trees for Tioga County in 1937

A Black Bear Roams the Hills of Tioga

A Black Cemetery

A Buck Deer Swims the River at Owego

A Champion Tree

A Century Old Tree is Felled at Newark Valley

A Coyote, a Small Species of Wolf, Is Shot by a Germany Hill Hunter

A Deer Running Wild

A Disease Which is Fatal to Chestnut Trees is Discovered

Alida Virginia Noble by Gavin Callaghan

Alida Virginia Noble by Martha J. Schneider

An Enormous Trout Caught in the Owego Creek

A Newark Valley Farmer's Trip Into the Twilight Zone

An Invitation to the Trout Ponds

A Note from Tamara

Another Deer is Shot in Candor Township

An Unknown Hunter Shoots a Deer in Owego

An Unusual Sight

A Pair of Panthers Are Believed to Be Living in Newark Valley Hills

A Rare Farnham Accelerating Wheel

A Remembrance of Margaret Williams

A Second Look at Edward R. Eastman

A Small Linen Loom at Newark Valley

A Spencer Hunter Kills a Wolf Near West Danby

A Story of the Higbe Home from As We Remember the Village of Newark Valley from 1880 to 1937

A Wild Animal, Believed to Be a Black Panther, Roams the Town of Nichols

A Wild Deer Causes a Team of Horses, Owned by a Spencer Man, to Run Away

A Word from Bucky the Deer

Barn Raisings Are a Unique Piece of America's Past

Beavers Reappear In an Old -Time Haunt

Believe a Wolf is Seen at Gibson Corners

Belle Donley Smith

Blacks Served With Distinction in Two World Wars

'Bucky' Writes His Annual Message About the Last Invasion of the Animal Kingdom

Bucky, Jr., of the Fields and Forests, Writes A Letter Anent the Recent Deer Season

'Bucky,' the Educated Deer, Writes What May Prove to Be His Valedictory

'Bucky,' the Veteran of the Woods, Is No More--Except in Spirit, Writes 'Bud'

Candor is to Have First State Reforestation

CCC Camp at Strait's Corners Is Occupied by Colored World War Veterans

Church Helped Maintain and Strengthen Black Community

Conclusion by Martha J. Schneider

County Men Educators Oppose Open Deer Season

Cows at Willseyville Adopt a Stray Fawn

Deer Destroy $1,000 Worth of Rare Shrubs

Deer Season Opens on Sunday, Nov. 24

Despicable Hunters Kill Two Deer in This County

"Did You Buy From Your Local Merchant Today?"

Driving the Wolves

Dutch Elm Disease is not so Alarming as Reported

Eagles Are Seen in the Vicinity of Apalachin

Eel Weirs in the River

English Plum Pudding

English Starlings Are Increasing in Numbers at a Tremendous Rate

Evidence that Chestnut Trees Are Returning

Evidences of Wild Bear Are Found Near Apalachin and Waits

Explains Plan of State Acquiring Useless Lands

Farm Boys Were a Tough Breed

Farmers of Tioga Co. Divided in Opinion on State Purchase of Submarginal Lands

Farmers Seeing Three Wolves Near Halsey Valley Recalls Wolf Drive a Century Ago

Farnham Family Textile Tools

Federal Game Warden Receives Reports About Deer

First Tioga County Forestry Field Day Proves Successful

Forest and Trees

Forest Field Day Contest on O.F.A. Tract

Forest Fires Sweep Over Newark Valley Farms

Forestry Expert Declares That the Chestnut Tree Will Not Come Back

Forests in New York's Southern Tier

French Rolls

George Byron Sutton

Germany Hill

Germany Hill Hunters Pursuing Wolf at Waits

Gypsies in Tioga

History in a Tree Stump!

How Glenmary Got Its Name

How Can We Save the Town?

How to Identify Farnham Flax Wheels

Hunter Gets his Deer With Butt of Shotgun

Hunting for Bear

Ice Harvest in Owego Is to Begin Very Soon

Identifying Farnham Great Wheels

Immigrant Churches in Tioga County

Indigenous Products of the County

James Hanna's Encounter With the Last Wolf of the Plains

Kansas and Colorado Dust Settles on Owego

Laban Jenks, The Pioneer

LeeRoy J. Tappan

Local Sites on the State Register of Historic Places

Mary E. Jenks

Memories of Christmas

Mince Pie

More Wild Black Bears Are Seen In Different Parts of Town of Owego

More Wildlife Springs Up -- A Beaver and a Black Bear Are Seen

Motor-Car is Damaged When Deer Strikes It

New Life For an Old Building

Notes on the Black Burial Ground

"One Woman, One Vote" The Campaign in Tioga County

Only a Few Does Shot in Tioga County

Oscar Settle, Aged 90 Years, Operates East Newark Farm Bought By Grandfather

Owego Angler Lands a Shad, Which Is the First Caught Here in 100 Years

Owego School Children to Plant 1,000 Trees

Owego's Black Baseball Team

P. S. Farnham, of Owego, Writes That Gun Clubs Are Not to Blame for Open Deer Season

Parsnips and Carrots

Plum Pudding

Pumpkin Pie

Raspberry Shrub

Reflections On World War II

Roads With an Eastern European Origin

Roast Beef

Rollie Noble

Rollie Noble & His Remarkable Flag

Save the Town! Save the Countryside!

Schneider Bibliography

Schneider Footnotes

Selections from Gay's Gazetteer (1785-1888)

Seventeen Million Trees Are Planted This Year

Shooting a Wild Deer Costs Three Endicott Brothers $108.50 Each

Soil Conservation Work Has Already Been Performed by the CCC Workers

Sportsmen Are Opposed to Open Season for Killing of Deer in Tioga County

State is Winning fight to Save Old Elm Trees

State Takes Over Owego and Newark Valley Lands

Strait's Corners CCC Camp to Close Oct. 10

Stockings 101

Submits a Stretch of the Imagination Story of a Meeting of a Deer and a Human

Susan Catherine Moore Waters

Tales from the Merchant Marine

The Black CCC Camp

The Black Church

The Chestnut Tree is Doomed to Extinction

The 'Departed Glory' of an Owego Singer

The Forgotten Burial Ground

The Great American Bird, a Bald-Headed Eagle

The Gypsies Are Coming!

The Kobylarz Family in World War II

The Last Survivor of the Wild Pigeons

The Mystery of the Pumpkin Pine

The Orthodox Cross

The Polish Church

The Return of the Whitetail Deer

The Rollie Noble Flag

The Rollie Noble Flag Trivia

The Spinning Wheel Sleuth & Farnham Research

The Story of a Polish-American Farm Wife

The Story of the Old Green Barn

The Threshing Barn: A Window into the Past

The Underground Railroad in Tioga County

Thirteen Plantations of Trees Are Started in Tioga County

Thousands Come to See Willow Bridge Beavers

Three Black Bears Make Their Appearance in the Beaver Country in This County

Timber Frame Barns Stretched Into 20th Century

Timeline of Afro-American History in Tioga County

Tioga County Dairymen Oppose Open Deer Hunting Season by a Vote of 10 to 1

Tioga County Farmers Ask Open Deer Season

Tioga County Immigrants

Tioga's First Draftees During World War II

Tioga's First World War I Casualty

Town of Berkshire

Town of Candor

Town of Newark Valley

Town of Nichols

Town of Owego

Town of Tioga

Town of Tioga Woman Condemns Deer Killing Season and Scathingly Writes of Lawlessness

Turkey

Two Bald Headed Eagles Caught in Southern Tier

Two Beavers, Rare for this Part of the Country, Return to Haunts of Ancestors

Unseasonable Wild Strawberries

What is a Barn Loom?

When America Had a Different View of Weight

Wild Animal, Said to Be a Panther, Attacks Dogs of Hunters at Richford

Wild Deer Remain to Be Attraction

'Wildlife Bucky, Jr.,' Comes Across With a Letter to 'Bud' His Protector

Yorkshire Pudding

Young Black Bear Seen By Trout Fishermen

Back to Top


Categorical
Some articles or stories may appear in multiple categories.

African-American

A Black Cemetery

A Remembrance of Margaret Williams

Blacks Served With Distinction in Two World Wars

CCC Camp at Strait's Corners Is Occupied by Colored World War Veterans

Church Helped Maintain and Strengthen Black Community

Notes on the Black Burial Ground

Owego's Black Baseball Team

Soil Conservation Work Has Already Been Performed by the CCC Workers

Strait's Corners CCC Camp to Close Oct. 10

The Black CCC Camp

The Black Church

The 'Departed Glory' of an Owego Singer

The Forgotten Burial Ground

The Underground Railroad in Tioga County

Timeline of Afro-American History in Tioga County

When America Had a Different View of Weight

Agriculture

See Farms/Farming

Animals

See Wildlife

Artists (Authors, Painters, Musicians)

Alida Virginia Noble by Gavin Callaghan

Alida Virginia Noble by Martha J. Schneider

A Second Look at Edward R. Eastman

Belle Donley Smith

Conclusion by Martha J. Schneider

George Byron Sutton

LeeRoy J. Tappan

Mary E. Jenks

Schneider Bibliography

Schneider Footnotes

Susan Catherine Moore Waters

The 'Departed Glory' of an Owego Singer

Barns

Barn Raisings Are a Unique Piece of America's Past

Local Sites on the State Register of Historic Places

New Life For an Old Building

The Story of the Old Green Barn

The Threshing Barn: A Window into the Past

Timber Frame Barns Stretched Into 20th Century

Buildings

A Story of the Higbe Home from As We Remember the Village of Newark Valley from 1880 to 1937

Barn Raisings Are a Unique Piece of America's Past

Local Sites on the State Register of Historic Places

New Life For an Old Building

The Mystery of the Pumpkin Pine

The Orthodox Cross

The Story of the Old Green Barn

The Threshing Barn: A Window into the Past

Timber Frame Barns Stretched Into 20th Century

Business

An Enormous Trout Caught in the Owego Creek

"Did You Buy From Your Local Merchant Today?"

Farnham Family Textile Tools

Ice Harvest in Owego Is to Begin Very Soon

Indigenous Products of the County

New Life For an Old Building

Oscar Settle, Aged 90 Years, Operates East Newark Farm Bought By Grandfather

Save the Town! Save the Countryside!

Tales from the Merchant Marine

The Chestnut Tree is Doomed to Extinction

The Gypsies Are Coming!

The Story of the Old Green Barn

The Threshing Barn: A Window into the Past

Timber Frame Barns Stretched Into 20th Century

Town of Candor

Town of Nichols

Town of Owego

Churches

Church Helped Maintain and Strengthen Black Community

Immigrant Churches in Tioga County

The Black Church

The Orthodox Cross

The Polish Church

The Underground Railroad in Tioga County

Cooking

A Note from Tamara

English Plum Pudding

French Rolls

Mince Pie

Memories of Christmas

Parsnips and Carrots

Plum Pudding

Pumpkin Pie

Raspberry Shrub

Roast Beef

Turkey

Yorkshire Pudding

When America Had a Different View of Weight

Farms/Farming

A Black Bear Roams the Hills of Tioga

A Black Cemetery

A Newark Valley Farmer's Trip Into the Twilight Zone

Beavers Reappear In an Old -Time Haunt

Deer Season Opens on Sunday, Nov. 24

Explains Plan of State Acquiring Useless Lands

Farmers of Tioga Co. Divided in Opinion on State Purchase of Submarginal Lands

Farmers Seeing Three Wolves Near Halsey Valley Recalls Wolf Drive a Century Ago

First Tioga County Forestry Field Day Proves Successful

Forest Fires Sweep Over Newark Valley Farms

Ice Harvest in Owego Is to Begin Very Soon

Indigenous Products of the County

Kansas and Colorado Dust Settles on Owego

Laban Jenks, The Pioneer

More Wild Black Bears Are Seen In Different Parts of Town of Owego

New Life For an Old Building

Oscar Settle, Aged 90 Years, Operates East Newark Farm Bought By Grandfather

Roads With an Eastern European Origin

Save the Town! Save the Countryside!

Selections from Gay's Gazetteer (1785-1888)

Soil Conservation Work Has Already Been Performed by the CCC Workers

State Takes Over Owego and Newark Valley Lands

Strait's Corners CCC Camp to Close Oct. 10

The Black CCC Camp

The Great American Bird, a Bald-Headed Eagle

The Story of a Polish-American Farm Wife

The Story of the Old Green Barn

The Threshing Barn: A Window into the Past

Timber Frame Barns Stretched Into 20th Century

Tioga County Dairymen Oppose Open Deer Hunting Season by a Vote of 10 to 1

Tioga County Farmers Ask Open Deer Season

 

Town of Owego

Geography

A Champion Tree

A Century Old Tree is Felled at Newark Valley

A Disease Which is Fatal to Chestnut Trees is Discovered

First Tioga County Forestry Field Day Proves Successful

Forest and Trees

History in a Tree Stump!

How Glenmary Got Its Name

Ice Harvest in Owego Is to Begin Very Soon

Indigenous Products of the County

Kansas and Colorado Dust Settles on Owego

Notes on the Black Burial Ground

Selections from Gay's Gazetteer (1785-1888)

Soil Conservation Work Has Already Been Performed by the CCC Workers

State Takes Over Owego and Newark Valley Lands

Strait's Corners CCC Camp to Close Oct. 10

The Black CCC Camp

Town of Berkshire

Town of Candor

Town of Newark Valley

Town of Nichols

Town of Owego

Town of Tioga

Unseasonable Wild Strawberries

Hunting

A Coyote, a Small Species of Wolf, Is Shot by a Germany Hill Hunter

A Deer Running Wild

An Unknown Hunter Shoots a Deer in Owego

An Unusual Sight

A Spencer Hunter Kills a Wolf Near West Danby

County Men Educators Oppose Open Deer Season

Deer Season Opens on Sunday, Nov. 24

Despicable Hunters Kill Two Deer in This County

Driving the Wolves

Federal Game Warden Receives Reports About Deer

Germany Hill Hunters Pursuing Wolf at Waits

Hunting for Bear

Hunter Gets his Deer With Butt of Shotgun

James Hanna's Encounter With the Last Wolf of the Plains

Only a Few Does Shot in Tioga County

P. S. Farnham, of Owego, Writes That Gun Clubs Are Not to Blame for Open Deer Season

Shooting a Wild Deer Costs Three Endicott Brothers $108.50 Each

Sportsmen Are Opposed to Open Season for Killing of Deer in Tioga County

The Great American Bird, a Bald-Headed Eagle

Tioga County Dairymen Oppose Open Deer Hunting Season by a Vote of 10 to 1

Tioga County Farmers Ask Open Deer Season

Town of Newark Valley

Town of Tioga Woman Condemns Deer Killing Season and Scathingly Writes of Lawlessness

Wild Animal, Said to Be a Panther, Attacks Dogs of Hunters at Richford

'Wildlife Bucky, Jr.,' Comes Across With a Letter to 'Bud' His Protector

Native American (Indian)

A Century Old Tree is Felled at Newark Valley

Forests in New York's Southern Tier

Selections from Gay's Gazetteer (1785-1888)

Town of Owego

People

A Black Bear Roams the Hills of Tioga

A Black Cemetery

A Century Old Tree is Felled at Newark Valley

A Disease Which is Fatal to Chestnut Trees is Discovered

Alida Virginia Noble by Gavin Callaghan

Alida Virginia Noble by Martha J. Schneider

An Enormous Trout Caught in the Owego Creek

A Newark Valley Farmer's Trip Into the Twilight Zone

An Invitation to the Trout Ponds

Another Deer is Shot in Candor Township

An Unusual Sight

A Pair of Panthers Are Believed to Be Living in Newark Valley Hills

A Second Look at Edward R. Eastman

A Small Linen Loom at Newark Valley

A Spencer Hunter Kills a Wolf Near West Danby

A Wild Animal, Believed to Be a Black Panther, Roams the Town of Nichols

A Wild Deer Causes a Team of Horses, Owned by a Spencer Man, to Run Away

Barn Raisings Are a Unique Piece of America's Past

Beavers Reappear In an Old -Time Haunt

Believe a Wolf is Seen at Gibson Corners

Belle Donley Smith

Blacks Served With Distinction in Two World Wars

Candor is to Have First State Reforestation

CCC Camp at Strait's Corners Is Occupied by Colored World War Veterans

Church Helped Maintain and Strengthen Black Community

Conclusion by Martha J. Schneider

County Men Educators Oppose Open Deer Season

Cows at Willseyville Adopt a Stray Fawn

Deer Destroy $1,000 Worth of Rare Shrubs

Deer Season Opens on Sunday, Nov. 24

Despicable Hunters Kill Two Deer in This County

"Did You Buy From Your Local Merchant Today?"

Driving the Wolves

Dutch Elm Disease is not so Alarming as Reported

Eagles Are Seen in the Vicinity of Apalachin

Eel Weirs in the River

English Starlings Are Increasing in Numbers at a Tremendous Rate

Evidence that Chestnut Trees Are Returning

Evidences of Wild Bear Are Found Near Apalachin and Waits

Explains Plan of State Acquiring Useless Lands

Farm Boys Were a Tough Breed

Farmers of Tioga Co. Divided in Opinion on State Purchase of Submarginal Lands

Farmers Seeing Three Wolves Near Halsey Valley Recalls Wolf Drive a Century Ago

Farnham Family Textile Tools

Federal Game Warden Receives Reports About Deer

First Tioga County Forestry Field Day Proves Successful

Forest Field Day Contest on O.F.A. Tract

Forest Fires Sweep Over Newark Valley Farms

Forestry Expert Declares That the Chestnut Tree Will Not Come Back

George Byron Sutton

Germany Hill

Germany Hill Hunters Pursuing Wolf at Waits

Gypsies in Tioga

History in a Tree Stump!

How Glenmary Got Its Name

Hunting for Bear

Hunter Gets his Deer With Butt of Shotgun

Immigrant Churches in Tioga County

James Hanna's Encounter With the Last Wolf of the Plains

Laban Jenks, The Pioneer

LeeRoy J. Tappan

Mary E. Jenks

Memories of Christmas

More Wild Black Bears Are Seen In Different Parts of Town of Owego

More Wildlife Springs Up -- A Beaver and a Black Bear Are Seen

Motor-Car is Damaged When Deer Strikes It

Notes on the Black Burial Ground

"One Woman, One Vote" The Campaign in Tioga County

Only a Few Does Shot in Tioga County

Oscar Settle, Aged 90 Years, Operates East Newark Farm Bought By Grandfather

Owego Angler Lands a Shad, Which Is the First Caught Here in 100 Years

Owego School Children to Plant 1,000 Trees

P. S. Farnham, of Owego, Writes That Gun Clubs Are Not to Blame for Open Deer Season

Reflections On World War II

Roads With an Eastern European Origin

Rollie Noble

Rollie Noble & His Remarkable Flag

Selections from Gay's Gazetteer (1785-1888)

Shooting a Wild Deer Costs Three Endicott Brothers $108.50 Each

Sportsmen Are Opposed to Open Season for Killing of Deer in Tioga County

State is Winning fight to Save Old Elm Trees

State Takes Over Owego and Newark Valley Lands

Strait's Corners CCC Camp to Close Oct. 10

Susan Catherine Moore Waters

Tales from the Merchant Marine

The Black CCC Camp

The Great American Bird, a Bald-Headed Eagle

The Gypsies Are Coming!

The Kobylarz Family in World War II

The Last Survivor of the Wild Pigeons

The Mystery of the Pumpkin Pine

The Polish Church

The Rollie Noble Flag

The Rollie Noble Flag Trivia

The Spinning Wheel Sleuth & Farnham Research

The Story of a Polish-American Farm Wife

The Underground Railroad in Tioga County

Thousands Come to See Willow Bridge Beavers

Three Black Bears Make Their Appearance in the Beaver Country in This County

Timber Frame Barns Stretched Into 20th Century

Timeline of Afro-American History in Tioga County

Tioga County Dairymen Oppose Open Deer Hunting Season by a Vote of 10 to 1

Tioga County Farmers Ask Open Deer Season

Tioga's First Draftees During World War II

Tioga's First World War I Casualty

Town of Newark Valley

Town of Nichols

Town of Owego

Town of Tioga Woman Condemns Deer Killing Season and Scathingly Writes of Lawlessness

Two Bald Headed Eagles Caught in Southern Tier

Unseasonable Wild Strawberries

What is a Barn Loom?

When America Had a Different View of Weight

Wild Animal, Said to Be a Panther, Attacks Dogs of Hunters at Richford

Wild Deer Remain to Be Attraction

'Wildlife Bucky, Jr.,' Comes Across With a Letter to 'Bud' His Protector

Young Black Bear Seen By Trout Fishermen

Restoration

Timber Frame Barns Stretched Into 20th Century

Spinning/Weaving

A Rare Farnham Accelerating Wheel

A Small Linen Loom at Newark Valley

Farnham Family Textile Tools

How to Identify Farnham Flax Wheels

Identifying Farnham Great Wheels

The Spinning Wheel Sleuth & Farnham Research

What is a Barn Loom?

Town Life

1907 Owego Gazette Advertisements

An Invitation to the Trout Ponds

A Word from Bucky the Deer

'Bucky' Writes His Annual Message About the Last Invasion of the Animal Kingdom

Bucky, Jr., of the Fields and Forests, Writes A Letter Anent the Recent Deer Season

'Bucky,' the Educated Deer, Writes What May Prove to Be His Valedictory

'Bucky,' the Veteran of the Woods, Is No More--Except in Spirit, Writes 'Bud'

Candor is to Have First State Reforestation

Explains Plan of State Acquiring Useless Lands

Farmers of Tioga Co. Divided in Opinion on State Purchase of Submarginal Lands

Forest Field Day Contest on O.F.A. Tract

Forest Fires Sweep Over Newark Valley Farms

Germany Hill

Gypsies in Tioga

How Can We Save the Town?

Hunting for Bear

Ice Harvest in Owego Is to Begin Very Soon

Kansas and Colorado Dust Settles on Owego

More Wild Black Bears Are Seen In Different Parts of Town of Owego

Motor-Car is Damaged When Deer Strikes It

Owego School Children to Plant 1,000 Trees

Owego's Black Baseball Team

Save the Town! Save the Countryside!

The Gypsies Are Coming!

Thirteen Plantations of Trees Are Started in Tioga County

Thousands Come to See Willow Bridge Beavers

Three Black Bears Make Their Appearance in the Beaver Country in This County

Town of Tioga Woman Condemns Deer Killing Season and Scathingly Writes of Lawlessness

'Wildlife Bucky, Jr.,' Comes Across With a Letter to 'Bud' His Protector

Trees

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War

Selections from Gay's Gazetteer (1785-1888)

A Remembrance of Margaret Williams

Blacks Served With Distinction in Two World Wars

CCC Camp at Strait's Corners Is Occupied by Colored World War Veterans

Immigrant Churches in Tioga County

Reflections On World War II

Rollie Noble

Rollie Noble & His Remarkable Flag

Tales from the Merchant Marine

The Kobylarz Family in World War II

The Rollie Noble Flag

The Rollie Noble Flag Trivia

Tioga's First Draftees During World War II

Tioga's First World War I Casualty

Waterways

A Buck Deer Swims the River at Owego

A Century Old Tree is Felled at Newark Valley

An Enormous Trout Caught in the Owego Creek

An Invitation to the Trout Ponds

An Unusual Sight

Beavers Reappear In an Old -Time Haunt

Driving the Wolves

Eel Weirs in the River

Ice Harvest in Owego Is to Begin Very Soon

More Wildlife Springs Up -- A Beaver and a Black Bear Are Seen

Owego Angler Lands a Shad, Which Is the First Caught Here in 100 Years

Thousands Come to See Willow Bridge Beavers

Town of Nichols

Town of Owego

Two Beavers, Rare for this Part of the Country, Return to Haunts of Ancestors

Young Black Bear Seen By Trout Fishermen

Wildlife

1,651,000 Trees for Tioga County in 1937

A Black Bear Roams the Hills of Tioga

A Buck Deer Swims the River at Owego

A Champion Tree

A Century Old Tree is Felled at Newark Valley

A Coyote, a Small Species of Wolf, Is Shot by a Germany Hill Hunter

A Disease Which is Fatal to Chestnut Trees is Discovered

A Deer Running Wild

A Disease Which is Fatal to Chestnut Trees is Discovered

An Enormous Trout Caught in the Owego Creek

Another Deer is Shot in Candor Township

An Unknown Hunter Shoots a Deer in Owego

An Unusual Sight

A Pair of Panthers Are Believed to Be Living in Newark Valley Hills

A Spencer Hunter Kills a Wolf Near West Danby

A Wild Animal, Believed to Be a Black Panther, Roams the Town of Nichols

A Wild Deer Causes a Team of Horses, Owned by a Spencer Man, to Run Away

A Word from Bucky the Deer

Beavers Reappear In an Old -Time Haunt

Believe a Wolf is Seen at Gibson Corners

'Bucky' Writes His Annual Message About the Last Invasion of the Animal Kingdom

Bucky, Jr., of the Fields and Forests, Writes A Letter Anent the Recent Deer Season

'Bucky,' the Educated Deer, Writes What May Prove to Be His Valedictory

'Bucky,' the Veteran of the Woods, Is No More--Except in Spirit, Writes 'Bud'

Candor is to Have First State Reforestation

County Men Educators Oppose Open Deer Season

Cows at Willseyville Adopt a Stray Fawn

Deer Destroy $1,000 Worth of Rare Shrubs

Deer Season Opens on Sunday, Nov. 24

Despicable Hunters Kill Two Deer in This County

Driving the Wolves

Dutch Elm Disease is not so Alarming as Reported

Eagles Are Seen in the Vicinity of Apalachin

Eel Weirs in the River

English Starlings Are Increasing in Numbers at a Tremendous Rate

Evidence that Chestnut Trees Are Returning

Evidences of Wild Bear Are Found Near Apalachin and Waits

Farmers Seeing Three Wolves Near Halsey Valley Recalls Wolf Drive a Century Ago

Federal Game Warden Receives Reports About Deer

First Tioga County Forestry Field Day Proves Successful

Forest and Trees

Forest Field Day Contest on O.F.A. Tract

Forest Fires Sweep Over Newark Valley Farms

Forestry Expert Declares That the Chestnut Tree Will Not Come Back

Forests in New York's Southern Tier

Germany Hill Hunters Pursuing Wolf at Waits

History in a Tree Stump!

Hunting for Bear

Hunter Gets his Deer With Butt of Shotgun

Indigenous Products of the County

James Hanna's Encounter With the Last Wolf of the Plains

More Wild Black Bears Are Seen In Different Parts of Town of Owego

More Wildlife Springs Up -- A Beaver and a Black Bear Are Seen

Motor-Car is Damaged When Deer Strikes It

Only a Few Does Shot in Tioga County

Owego Angler Lands a Shad, Which Is the First Caught Here in 100 Years

Owego School Children to Plant 1,000 Trees

P. S. Farnham, of Owego, Writes That Gun Clubs Are Not to Blame for Open Deer Season

Seventeen Million Trees Are Planted This Year

Shooting a Wild Deer Costs Three Endicott Brothers $108.50 Each

Sportsmen Are Opposed to Open Season for Killing of Deer in Tioga County

State is Winning fight to Save Old Elm Trees

State Takes Over Owego and Newark Valley Lands

Strait's Corners CCC Camp to Close Oct. 10

The Chestnut Tree is Doomed to Extinction

The Great American Bird, a Bald-Headed Eagle

The Last Survivor of the Wild Pigeons

The Mystery of the Pumpkin Pine

The Return of the Whitetail Deer

Thirteen Plantations of Trees Are Started in Tioga County

Thousands Come to See Willow Bridge Beavers

Three Black Bears Make Their Appearance in the Beaver Country in This County

Tioga County Dairymen Oppose Open Deer Hunting Season by a Vote of 10 to 1

Tioga County Farmers Ask Open Deer Season

Town of Newark Valley

Town of Tioga Woman Condemns Deer Killing Season and Scathingly Writes of Lawlessness

Two Bald Headed Eagles Caught in Southern Tier

Two Beavers, Rare for this Part of the Country, Return to Haunts of Ancestors

Wild Animal, Said to Be a Panther, Attacks Dogs of Hunters at Richford

Wild Deer Remain to Be Attraction

'Wildlife Bucky, Jr.,' Comes Across With a Letter to 'Bud' His Protector

Young Black Bear Seen By Trout Fishermen

Women

Alida Virginia Noble by Gavin Callaghan

Alida Virginia Noble by Martha J. Schneider

A Note from Tamara

A Remembrance of Margaret Williams

Belle Donley Smith

Conclusion by Martha J. Schneider

Mary E. Jenks

"One Woman, One Vote" The Campaign in Tioga County

Reflections On World War II

State Takes Over Owego and Newark Valley Lands

Susan Catherine Moore Waters

The Kobylarz Family in World War II

The Story of a Polish-American Farm Wife

Town of Tioga Woman Condemns Deer Killing Season and Scathingly Writes of Lawlessness

Unseasonable Wild Strawberries

When America Had a Different View of Weight

Worship

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Miscellaneous

A Newark Valley Farmer's Trip Into the Twilight Zone

Stockings 101

Tioga County Immigrants

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