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
3 comments:
Re: Where is the warmth?
John:
Don't remember the Porsche.
Back in the early 60's, while I was in the Navy, I was stationed at the Naval Nuclear Power Training Unit near Ballston Spa and Saratoga Springs. The Red Cross was conducting a blood drive and the person that stopped by to pick up the pint of blood I had given was Joey Case. Talk about a small world. That was the last time I saw him. He had a sister named Bonnie, I think. Is she still in the area? The name Lynne Meixner rings a bell but I can not put a face to it.
Do you have a copy of the picture taken of the Hiawatha Chapter of the Yorker club when we were in the 7th grade? That would be an interesting picture to see.
Dave
Re: Towpath Times
I checked out the Towpath Times. Interesting story about the The American Cement Company. I wonder if the large supply of clay marl found in that region was the same deposit that was used to make the famous Jordan Pottery? Does anyone know where those potters were located?
If you go to: The Erie Canal - A Journey Through History and launch the Erie Canal Tour then click on the red dot representing Jordan you will see that they state that Jordan was named for Ambrose Jordan, a land owner. Does anyone have any information on him or his family? I wonder where his homestead was located? Mary (wo James) Jordan, who died in 1876 at 53, is buried in ST. Patrick's Roman Catholic Cemetery. Also, there is a couple, Robert J and Ellen Jordan, buried in Maple Grove Cemetery who were born in the mid 1800's. I wonder if these people were related to Ambrose?
This story of where the name of our village came from sure contradicts the story that I and others have been told about Jordan's name coming from its resemblance to the Jordan River valley. Can anyone verify this new, to me, information?
RE: Where is the Warmth
I seem to remember Joe talking about running into you when he was in the Navy. His sister Bonnie died a few years ago, I don't remember the cause for sure but I believe it was cancer. His brother Dick lives in Tully.
Interesting story or fact about Ambrose Jordan. This website gives him credit for our name:
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=944
There are still Jordans in the area, I used to bowl with a couple of them, but I never heard them mention any conncection to Ambrose or the Village of Jordan.
Hello
I was hoping to find out more information and maybe see some pics of the American Cement Company...however the above link towpath-times.org, appears to be a dead link. Is there anywhere I can find out more info?
Thanks!!
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