Tragic Drowning of 12-Year-Old Wells Bostwick in Mead’s Pond

Wells Bostwick, a twelve-year-old son of Sumner Bostwick, a former well-known insurance man, fell into Mead’s brick yard pond, at the head of Mill street, and was drowned, Tuesday evening. The pond in some places is fifteen feet deep and the bank is very slippery. It is thought the boy Continue Reading

1932: The Origins of Popcorn Point

“Lodwick Ulrich, a native-born Slabtowner, for past four score years who died recently, oft recalled an amusing incident that occurred when the old river town was in its swaddling clothes, and he was but a lad of six or seven years of age. He had gone to Pig Iron corner Continue Reading