photos of stone mills

Stone Mills Cheese Factory


Cheese Factory and home of David and Elizabeth Schell near the Stone Mills Church.

de LaFarge Mansion near Stone Mills

The deLaFarge mansion was the home of one of the French landowners in the Town of Orleans.

Stone Mills School

Stone Mills had a one room district school. All the scholars for this year are shown in this picture.

First row (left to right):
Carl Gailey, Dale Dorr, Aden Mowers, Earl Graham, Charles Gailey, Thomas Jackson
 

Second row (left to right):
Henry Scoville, Mable Baxter(Mason), Mary Baxter(Dean), Edith Jeffers, Helen Wilder, Rose Scovil(Wilder), Grace LaGraves(Joles), Edith Jackson(Sanford), Ione Wilder(Mitchell), Martin Johnson
 

Third row (left to right):
Edna Jeffers(Dixon), Belle Gailey(Ebblie), Fannie Dorr(Nellis), Mae LaGraves(Braden), Mabel Mitchell(Denison), Elmer Wilder, Nellie Graves(Sloat), Maude Wilder, Lottie Johnson
 

Fourth row (left to right):
Isaac Mitchell, Herbert H. Nelson (teacher), Frank Schram
 

Names in brackets are the married names. Photo was taken by John Irwin, prominent Stone Mills merchant. The school eventually burned. It occupied the site of the current wood frame schoolhouse at the Agricultural Museum at Stone Mills

 

Information and Photos Courtesy of www.jefferson.nygenweb.net/smills.htm

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