Hello JordanNY Bloggers!

Sorry we've been missing for a few days. Been very busy with Memorial Day-Jordan.
We have added 91 photos of Jordan on Memorial Day-2007. More photos will be coming and more captions will be added.

Look for the link to the right of this page.

Enjoy a sunny day in Jordan, New York 13080.

J-E Junior Prom 2007

We've added two more photo albums about Jordan, NY.

1. 2007 Junior Prom.
If you have photos of the prom that you would like posted in this album email them to MJDoyle@twcny.rr.com Students and parents must approve of posting them on this album.

2. Jordan in the past.

Go to Jordan, NY Photo Albums on the right and you'll find the new albums along with the Jordan, New York album.

On occassion additional photos will be added to albums. Each album can hold 500 photos so be sure to check back often.

Enjoy!

The count down begins.......

The hype has begun and the count down begins for the most wonderful Memorial Day around. Come to Jordan Monday May 28th to enjoy your Memorial Day. Several Commemoration services, one of the largest parades in CNY-the Parade of Bands followed by an amazing bagpipe parade called Massing of the Bagpipes (where all bagpipe bands play and march together). Very impressive. All kinds of food will be available all day, the Jordan Museum hosts an Open House and the Jordan Bramley library will hold a Used book sale. Ken Bush Jr. Memorial Day-Jordan Chairperson coordinates an amazing day of remembering our heroes, music, fun and great food. Spend Memorial Day in Jordan this year-Monday May 28th.

We're planning on creating a Memorial Day-Jordan 2007 video for on-line viewing for all of our friends that can't be here. If there is anything special you'd like a photo of let us know.

Also for our out-of-town friends if you'd like a copy of the 2007 Memorial Day-Jordan program email your address and we'll get one out to you. This year we have combined a copy of the Memorial Day-Jordan 1931 program with the 2007 program. Maureen will be wandering around Jordan on Memorial Day handing out programs.

We haven't forgotten the Jordan outhouse video. Like most of us everyone at the Jordan Historical Society are volunteers and this is a very busy time of year. It will be worth the wait.

Happy Sunday!

We've added some new links to our blog. Check on the right side of the front page. You'll find links to the Jordan, NY 13080 video tour, the 524-mile "Art Walks on Water" video tour and the "Lyons Mural Mania" video tour. Jordan is fortunate to be part of the canal-side community network that continues to grow across the state. All of these video tours will continue to grow as the state-wide network grows so be sure to visit each often.

'Bulge' in Tree is Cannon Ball

Photo (date unknown) provided by George B. of Jordan

who received it from Mary S., granddaughter of Mr Teachout.

The capation reads: Source of much wonderment on the part of Jordan Natives for years, a bulge in a 200-year-old tree near Jordan High School was found to have been caused by a seven pound cannon ball which was fired as a salute to the train bearing the body of President Lincoln when it passed through the village in 1865. Jerome Teachout, 81, right, village night watchman, and O.J. Conger, 68, who discovered the ball when they cut down the tree, are shown looking at the missile, which will be presented to the school. International News Photo by American staff photographer

Bicyclists Bring Business

Mark May 31 on your calendars (after you R.S.V.P)

Parks & Trails NY and the NYS Canal Corporation are holding a FREE roundtable for business people, elected officials and interested citizens at the Jordan-Elbridge Community Center, Route 31, Jordan on Thursday, May 31 from 6:00pm-8:00pm.

Discover how to profit from the growing bicycle tourist market on the Canalway Trail.

If you can't attend this one there will be one more on Tuesday, June 5th at Hotel utica, 102 Lafayette Street, Utica.

Please R. S. V. P. for either workshop to B3workshop@ptny.org

Jordan, NY Photo Slideshow

Erie Canal Celebration update

The Erie Canal Celebration Committee-Jordan has joined efforts with the Elbridge Free Library adding the

Elbridge Village Wide Yard Sales to the Jordan Village Wide Yard Sales.

On July 14th please visit the

"Erie Canal Celebration-Jordan" and

"Treasure Hunting in the Villages-Jordan & Elbridge".

It will be a huge day for both villages, day long yard sales, 2-chicken bbq's

(one in Jordan and one in Elbridge), home-made donuts for breakfast in Elbridge,

crafters and artists in Jordan, used book sale in Elbridge,

Dave Ruch - historian , performer, entertainer in Jordan and much, much more.

Visit Erie Canal Celebration at http://www.jordanny.com/

The Canal in NYS

Lots of exciting stuff going on across the state for the canal that Jordan can and will benefit from. Headed to Rome tomorrow to attend a seminar - "Art Walks on Water". Created by Lori Skogg from Brockport her vision is to have an art trail across the state with every community having art work around the streets, canal, whatever.

Another state wide project is "Mural Mania". Started by Mark DeCracker, president of the Lyons Chamber of Commerce the vision is also to have murals in a string of canal communities across the state. The Village Center Committee of Jordan has a meeting with a mural artist in early June. Permission has already been granted by the owner of the Laundromat building (formerly hardware) located on Mechanic Street, behind the bank. The vision is to have 2, maybe 3 different Jordan canal photos painted on the back side (canal side) and the east side (which would be viewable from the USPS office).

Of course this project, like others must wait until the appropriate grant money comes available...and it will.

Another warm an sunny day in Jordan. Spring has really arrived....finally!

A story about the Lincoln cannonball

Baldwinsville (N.Y) Gazette, March 12, 1964
Cleverley Recalls Cannon Firing at Jordan Tree

Olin Cleverley, Warners resident, called The Gazette by telephone recently to remind residents of an incident that occurred at Jordan near the New York Central tracks at the time that the Abraham Lincoln funeral train passed through enroute between Washington, D.C., and the martyred president's final resting place in his home state of Illinois.
The story had been passed down through the years in Jordan that a group of crack artillerymen home on leave at Jordan fired a cannon as the Lincoln train passed through that community and that the ball from the cannon lodged in an elm tree on the Otis farm.
When that tree was taken down, a piece of the tree containing the old cannonball was saved and kept in the old Jordan High School for many years.
What brought the story to mind, Mr. Cleverley stated, was the recent article appearing in The Gazette which was a story appearing in the papers of the late Miss Sophia Voorhees of Baldwinsville which had described how residents living along the New York Central tracks at Warners had attached flax to sticks and soaked the flax in kerosene. When the Lincoln train passed through, the flax was lit and formed a colorful avenue of light in the darkness between which the funeral train passed.
Visit this website to view the chronology for the train: http://www.fortklock.com/lincolntrains.htm

Thank you George B.

Towpath Times

Check out this website about connecting lifelines along the Old Erie and Champlain Canals.
Be sure to visit the Lew Pickard & American Cement Company page because it is about our area - Cement works in California, NY. Visit www.towpath-times.org

Thank you goes out to Cliff Williams for bringing this site to our attention.

Don't forget to visit our own www.JordanNY.com