Introduction
Chester House (1)
Chester House (2)
Chester House (3)
Chester House (4)
Chester House (5)
Chester Road Hotel
Chester School
Chester Volunteer Fire Company
Cross Roads Schoolhouse
Crystal Lake
Culvert over Black River
East Main Street
Entrance to Hacklebarney State Park
Federated Church
Grove Street
Leck’s Luncheonette
M.E. Church
Methodist Church
Milltown Bridge
Muskrat Inn
Muskrat Valley
Pleasant Hill Cemetery
Presbyterian Church
Ralston
R.R. Station
Square and Mill Street, German Valley
St. Lawrence the Martyr
The Institute Boarding House
Welcome Home Farm

Welcome Home Farm

“Welcome Home Farm” Chester, N.J., postcard, 1906. The card shows the name Alonzo P.Green crossed out in the bottom left corner. Lon Green owned the pharmacy that shared a building with George Conover’s paint and wallpaper business, as well as Conover’s printing business. The card was not printed by Conover, however.

The farmhouse shown here was built in about 1740 by Obadiah Seward, one of the earliest settlers from Southold, Long Island. It has seven fireplaces. Later, it was named “The Welcome Home Farm.”

The author of this postcard, A.X.F., writes, “Sept 4 1906 We got home all right.” The card is addressed to Fair View Farm in Lebanon, N.J.

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