an original Erie Canal Village with a distinctive concentration of nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture. During the 1830-40's and 1870-85's the Erie Canal made Jordan a principal commercial, industrial and transportation center of western Onondaga County.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Winter in JordanNY
Okay - we are going to get back on track with the winter scenes of Jordan that were promised days ago. If you have photos of Jordan (old or new) you'd like to share email them in.
(RM Platten photographer)
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I remember when they built this church. A family named Brown lived in the house that was on the property. The Catholic Church originally was up on Hamilton Street in front of the Catholic Cemetery. I don't remember if there was a fire or if the church just needed to be replaced. Anyway they built this church where it now stands and the Brown's moved to Clinton Terrace next to the Solomon's that lived across Quince Street from us.
I really enjoy the pictures around town. Where are the rest of the folks from Jordan. I am sure that I am not the only one that reads this Blog. I sure hope to hear from them on these pages.
There was a man named Knoblock (spelling?) who was more or less the official photographer around town. He seemed to show up with his camera at any news worthy, or not, event around Jordan. Does anyone have access to his work. I bet there is a history in pictures there. I do not know if the museum has his pictures or not. Does anyone know? Some of them were published in the Jordan Leader. That paper came out weekly and covered just about everything that was happening around the village. It even published the names of who did the best on tests given in the grade school classes. It was a challenge to get your name in the paper.
Does Jordan still have its bowling alley? We had a 4 lane alley that featured the latest semi-automatic pinsetters that Brunswick had to offer. Originally it required a person for each lane to pick up the pins and return the ball. Someone had an idea to cut out a space in the pits so that one person could take care of 2 alleys. Where was this center of fun? Who knows, besides me?
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I remember when they built this church. A family named Brown lived in the house that was on the property. The Catholic Church originally was up on Hamilton Street in front of the Catholic Cemetery. I don't remember if there was a fire or if the church just needed to be replaced. Anyway they built this church where it now stands and the Brown's moved to Clinton Terrace next to the Solomon's that lived across Quince Street from us.
I really enjoy the pictures around town. Where are the rest of the folks from Jordan. I am sure that I am not the only one that reads this Blog. I sure hope to hear from them on these pages.
There was a man named Knoblock (spelling?) who was more or less the official photographer around town. He seemed to show up with his camera at any news worthy, or not, event around Jordan. Does anyone have access to his work. I bet there is a history in pictures there. I do not know if the museum has his pictures or not. Does anyone know? Some of them were published in the Jordan Leader. That paper came out weekly and covered just about everything that was happening around the village. It even published the names of who did the best on tests given in the grade school classes. It was a challenge to get your name in the paper.
Does Jordan still have its bowling alley? We had a 4 lane alley that featured the latest semi-automatic pinsetters that Brunswick had to offer. Originally it required a person for each lane to pick up the pins and return the ball. Someone had an idea to cut out a space in the pits so that one person could take care of 2 alleys. Where was this center of fun? Who knows, besides me?
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