HomeMy WebLinkAbouthistorian article summer 2018 Sue Thompson NL ArticleEnfield Town Historian Sue Thompson
Just a few things in the historians area. If you are looking for a place to share Enfield documents, pictures, etc. contact the Enfield Town Historian. I can scan your documents to
place in our archive and return your originals.
A few requests of information I have received lately are: what was theEnfield Community Center, Inc." Inc. July 1957; were there “witches” on Connecticut Hill? An interesting article
on Witches in New York State can be found here: https://mailchi.mp/ihare.org/witches-in-america-a-tale-of-three-new-yorkers?e=4187bcc88d
Location of the old Royce Farm in Enfield; Vincent Meyers Gas Station on Enfield Falls Road; Gibbs House on Bostwick Road; Simon Vescelius DAR connection and Enfield; very old axe head
found on property located on Harvey Hill Road.
Dave Bock shared some Enfield History information after I asked about Mummy Hill. “I have no idea how Mummy Hill got its name. Trumbulls Corners Rd loops around the west side and Porter
Hill Rd goes up the east side, where the Porters lived at the top. Their home is marked on the 1850s map of Enfield. Starting at the Rumsey family cemetery at the western edge, the now-abandoned
stagecoach road runs along the side of the hill to emerge just below Rockwell Rd at the east (now Andy Auble’s driveway). That was part of the route the stage took from Watkins Glen
(then called Jefferson) to Enfield Falls. Sometime in the mid-30s the CCC planted all the pines; Dad (Bob Bock), about 10 years old at the time, “helped”.