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Painted portrait of a white-haired man in a wide-brimmed hat, gray suit and red-striped tie
Celebrities
Underground Railroad mural: a man rows toward a schooner as people wave from shore, two faces in the sky
Underground Railroad in Sodus Point Mural
Newspaper photos of Leon Newport kneeling behind a catch of fish and Bertha Newport receiving a key to the city
Newport family
Newspaper page with an 1858 map of Sodus Point and a photo of Bertha Newport with her son and daughter-in-law
Newport family
Printed page of a Democrat and Chronicle article about the Newport family, ending with an 'Additional Facts' box
Newport family
Typed page 2 of an article on the Newport family, with a section headed 'Rochester connection'
Newport family
Democrat and Chronicle article, 'Story of Newport family begins nearly 200 years ago in Wayne County'
Newport family
Back of a folded blue manifest with the handwritten note 'Inward Manifest, Sch Free Trader, Sept 13, 1856'
Papers of the Schooner Free Trader, 1854–1856
Printed 'Manifest of the Cargo' form with columns for packages, shipper, consignee and destination, filled in by hand
Papers of the Schooner Free Trader, 1854–1856
Printed 'Oath of Importer' form for the Port of Rochester, filled in by hand and signed in 1856
Papers of the Schooner Free Trader, 1854–1856
'Entry of Merchandise' form filled in by hand for the Sch Free Trader, Sept 1856, listing flour from Canada
Papers of the Schooner Free Trader, 1854–1856
Customs form headed 'Entry of Merchandise' listing 1109 bushels of wheat from Toronto, District of Genesee
Papers of the Schooner Free Trader, 1854–1856
Customs manifest form for the schooner Free Trader, Port of Big Sodus, filled in by hand: '28 cords of wood'
Papers of the Schooner Free Trader, 1854–1856
Free Trader cargo manifest form from 1856 with a handwritten entry for 28 cords of wood
Papers of the Schooner Free Trader, 1854–1856
Back of a folded manifest form with handwritten notes 'Sch Free Trader' and 'May 3 '56' beside printed entry text
Papers of the Schooner Free Trader, 1854–1856
Handwritten cargo manifest for the schooner Free Trader listing '35 Cords of Tan Bark', Port of Rochester
Papers of the Schooner Free Trader, 1854–1856
Water-stained ship enrollment certificate for the schooner Free Trader, filled in by hand, with a red wax seal
Papers of the Schooner Free Trader, 1854–1856
Free Trader enrollment certificate: printed form headed 'Enrollment', Port of Rochester, handwritten and stained
Papers of the Schooner Free Trader, 1854–1856
Stained, folded document headed 'Enrollment', handwritten 'Schr Free Trader' and dated April 14, 1854
Papers of the Schooner Free Trader, 1854–1856
Blue ink drawing: bearded man with a torch and a woman in a striped skirt in a brick tunnel
The Sodus Point Tunnel
Harriman House: two-story white house with black shutters and a columned entry porch, behind a hedge and white gate
Harriman House
Early Sodus Bay lighthouse tower beside a stone keeper's house, with a rail fence in front
On May 26, 1824, Congress approved a lighthouse located on Sodus Bay in Sodus Point, NY. Building costs…Sodus Bay Lighthouse
White clapboard Catholic church with an open-arched bell tower topped by a cross, beside a paved road
Catholic Church
Postcard of St. Rose Catholic Church, a wooden church with an open belfry tower, framed by trees
St. Rose Catholic Church (from the November 1993 Sodus Bay Historical Society newsletter)Catholic Church
Methodist Church: white church with a tall brown steeple and arched doorway, beside a smaller white house
Methodist Church
Methodist Church, Sodus Point: white frame church with a tall pointed steeple and arched windows
Methodist Church
Maxwell Creek Inn, a cobblestone house with purple shutters, a columned porch and a red hand pump on the lawn
Maxwell Creek Inn B & B (now a private residence)
Former schoolhouse with a bell cupola and flagpole, a large group of schoolchildren seated on the front steps
Community Center (former Schoolhouse)Courtesy of Ruth Carter
Episcopal Church: white clapboard church with a square bell tower topped by a cross and a red front door
Episcopal Church
Newspaper clipping of a boat travel lift carrying the old Pennsylvania Railroad building, dated April 28, 1994
Information Center
Small gray clapboard shed beside overgrown railroad tracks, a 'Begin LDL' sign on a post and autumn trees behind
Information CenterCourtesy of Bob Jones
Two-story wooden building signed 'Sodus Point' beside railroad tracks and a water tower, old cars parked out front
Information Center
Information Center: small cream clapboard building with a green door and hipped roof, flower beds and marina behind
Information Center
Large two-story house with dark shutters and a holiday-trimmed entrance in fresh snow, a bed and breakfast sign at right
We have evidence that the Johnson House (Bay Street Hotel) opened for business in 1844 but was build…Bay View B & B
Sodus Point Community Center, a white clapboard building with red double doors, a gable sign and a wooden ramp
Above is a photo of the present day Sodus Point Community Center located at 159 Bay Street next…Community Center (former Schoolhouse)
Class photo of schoolchildren in three rows with a woman teacher, posed before a blackboard
Community Center (former Schoolhouse)Courtesy of Jeffrey Corbin
Schoolhouse with a bell cupola and a large group of pupils lined up in front, marked 'about 1896'
Community Center (former Schoolhouse)Courtesy of Ruth Carter
Aerial black-and-white view of the coal trestle on fire, heavy smoke rolling over the shore, boats on the bay
Coal Trestle
E. H. Harriman, a mustached man in a dark suit, seated at a desk with an open book
E. H. Harriman
Wooden slatted car sitting on rails, with cables running alongside the track through a misty field
Sodus Canal
Water-filled channel between timber walls, with railroad tracks climbing an embankment beyond
Sodus Canal
Map: dotted line marking the 'Route of Old Sodus Canal' from Sodus Bay south to the Erie Canal near Clyde
Sodus Canal
Remains of the Clyde to Sodus Point Canal: a narrow, weedy, water-filled ditch running between farm fields
This photo shows all that remains today of the Clyde to Sodus Point Canal. It was taken on…Sodus Canal
Two-horse team pulling a sledge of ice blocks on Francis Noble's farm, men standing behind, 1925
The photo above is Edith Farrington's grandfather (Francis Noble) harvesting ice on his farm in Clyde, NY in…Ice Harvesting
Cutaway line drawing of a small icehouse showing ice blocks stacked inside thick walls
Ice Harvesting
Men with long poles guiding cut ice blocks along an open channel toward a conveyor and a large ice house
Ice Harvesting
Men in heavy coats cutting ice on a frozen lake, one holding a long ice saw, others with pike poles
Ice Harvesting
Three men on a plank working the ice with long poles, a large icehouse and loading ramp behind
Ice Harvesting