Joan Lindquist
Remembering Brooklyn SquareMade with Pride in Brooklyn Square
We are all familiar with the label “Made in the U.S.A.” But did you ever think how many products found their beginnings in the...
Local Historian’s Books Accepted by the New York State Library
Joan V. Cusimano Lindquist, author/editor of THE LOST NEIGHBORHOOD COLLECTION (2010), BROOKLYN SQUARE, THE LOST NEIGHBORHOOD, AND BEYOND (2013), and REMEMBERING BROOKLYN SQUARE: THE...
The Fenton Women II
In this, my fourth article about the Fentons of Jamestown, NY, my research has taken me far and wide, from Walnut Grove, the home...
Remembering Brooklyn Square: The Fenton Women 1
In this, my third article in a series about the Fentons of Jamestown, NY, I’ve chosen to write about the two women who were...
Reuben Earle Fenton
Research is always a road of discovery, and I have found this to be true about the family of Gov. Reuben E. Fenton, one...
Remembering Brooklyn Square: Govenor Reuben E. Fenton
While America was celebrating its birthday on July 4, 1819, George Washington Fenton and his wife Elsey Owens Fenton were celebrating the birth of...
Endress Ice and Coal
Endress Ice and Coal at 66 Foote Avenue, a street that was peripheral to the southeastern-most boundary of Brooklyn Square, was established in 1902...
Brooklyn Square Medical Men
Several well-known medical professionals whose practices were located in or along the periphery of Brooklyn Square shared a common heritage and origin: Italy. Dr....
Remembering Brooklyn Square: The Cheese Factory
Part of the appeal of Brooklyn Square was the number and variety of businesses packed into eighty acres of land in the Chadakoin River...
Remembering Brooklyn Square: Teddy Roosevelt and BROOKLYN SQUARE
One hundred and nineteen years ago on the evening of November 1, 1900, New York Governor Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, who was President William McKinley’s...
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