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"Legend of Coopers Falls" by Bryan Thompson:

Cooper's Falls

St. Lawrence Gazette - Published in Ogdensburg -    Feb 18, 1818

(Grave of Cooper,  Courtland C., *** Cooper, ***, 18*4 - East De Kalb Cemetery - on 1820 De Kalb Census)

St. Lawrence Gazette - Published in Ogdensburg - 1818

John Fine

St. Lawrence Gazette 1818

St. Lawrence Republican 1851

Cleaning Out Raceway, Cooper Falls, De Kalb Junction 1910

Judge William Cooper

Utica Weekly Herald Aug 8, 1872

St. Lawrence Republican 1854

Ogdensburg Daily Journal 1867

St. Lawrence Republican, Aug 17, 1904

Pleasant Street - De Kalb Jct.

Green Street 1918

Green Street 1907

Green Street

Green Street from Church

Residences & Fine Streets De Kalb Jct

Main Street De Kalb Junction 1910

De Kalb Jct. Business Center

Residences - De Kalb Jct.

Homes

Homes 1909

De Kalb Junction - Gold Medal Flour written on building

Hurley House 1915 (previously the Gould House)

St. Lawrence Plaindealer Dec 5, 1944 - "Fifty Years Ago" (1894)

St. Lawrence Plaindealer May 30, 1939

 

Depot

Franklin  Gazette 1885

De Kalb Band- early 1900s

Coopers Falls - very early 1906

Cooper Falls 1916

Greetings from De Kalb Junction

Canton Street, De Kalb Junction - early 1900s

Dup - 1915

1908 -  Canton Street - De Kalb Junction

 

Gouverneur Press 1871

St. Lawrence Plaindealer July 1, 1930

St. Lawrence Plaindealer Sept 14, 1943

Camp 24 Infantry - July 24, 1908

 

Link to De Kalb's Official Web site:

 http://www.dekalbnyhistorian.org/

St. Lawrence Plaindealer Dec 2, 1941

1870 Nathan Rundell Residence 

   (early settler of English ancestry)

1850 De Kalb Census: Nathan 40, Sarah 41, John M 13, Elizabeth, Phoebe 2, Abagail 52 

Obadiah 53, Polly 52, George 20, Harriett 15, Wilbur 11

1870 De Kalb Cenus: Nathan 60, Sarah 62, Elizabeth 28, Milton 32, Gertrude 13(lives with Lobdells)

Obediah 72, Polly 71, Eliza 49, William 30, Maria 26, Frank 7, Virginia 6, George 3

1880 De Kalb Census:  Nathan Rundell, retired farmer 69, Elizabeth daughter 39

East De Kalb Cemetery - Rundells - click here: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~stlawgen/CEMETERY/EastDekalb/EastDeKalb.HTM

St. Lawrence Plaindealer  Feb 13,1879

Union Free School

De Kalb School

School Photo

1907 School Photo

Hermon Street

Hermon St De Kalb Jct 1912

Hermon Street

Depot 1910

ME Church early 1900s

ME Church De Kalb Junction

Presbyterian Church De Kalb

Presbyterian Church - 1910

Catholic Church 1918

Ladies taking a ride - 1909

Finley's Tourist Camp

Finley's

Finley's

CC Lytle's Residence

Wainwright's Mill

Bordon Bottling

Cheese Factory

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St. Lawrence Plaindealer July 14, 1897

St. Lawrence Plaindealer Sept 17, 1940

Garland Stoves and Ranges - ND Walker 1902

J Gilson House

St. Lawrence Republican 1905

 

 

"Old Pioneer Cemetery" by Susan Mende: http://stlawrencecountycemeteries.org/DeKalb/oldpioneercem.htm

1858 Maps from "Maps of St. Lawrence  County - from Actual Survey by A.E. Rogerson, C.E. Published by J.B. Shields Publishers, 517, 1519, 521 Minor Street, Philadelphia

1803 - Judge William Cooper brought thirty-four people from Cooperstown to start a settlement. There is a James Cooper (possibly Judge William's brother?)  on De Kalb's 1810 census and a Courtland  Cooper (possibly James's son?) on the 1820 De Kalb census.

Rootsweb link : Judge William Cooper father of author James Fenimore Cooper :   http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jmherod&id=I60664