Table of Contents
Chapter One.............................................................................................EARLY BEGINNINGS
Chapter Two......................................................................LOCKPORT
AND THREE RIVERS
(platted as villages - 1836)
Chapter Three - 1855 - 1870.................................................THREE
RIVERS (FIRST WARD)
(becomes a corporate village - 1855)
LOCKPORT (remains unincorporated)
Chapter Four - 1871 - 1900...............................................THREE
RIVERS INCORPORATES
(Lockport, Canada, Brooklyn, 1871)
Chapter Five - 1905...............................................THREE
RIVERS RECEIVED A CHARTER
FROM STATE LEGISLATIVE
(becomes a city - 1905)
Chapter Six............................................................................................................."MEMORIES"
Prologue
When one starts to collect history from 150 years
ago it becomes a very difficult task. To compile all of it, and to
try to fit it into a small souvenir book is impossible. We are just
reminiscing about the very early years.
This is not a complete history of Three Rivers.
With some exceptions we do not go beyond the early 1920's. If we
have made mistakes in names, places, dates, we didn't mean to. If
we have forgotten your great grandfather or favorite uncle, please forgive
us. If we have omitted incidents you would have included we can't
help it now.
Our hope is that many people will hunt through their
memories, through printed material they have saved, and will find many
interesting stories about Three Rivers. If you donate your pictures
and information that you may find to the Library or to the D.A.R. Museum
at the Sue Silliman House, we can enlarge our knowledge of Three Rivers
through the years and save it for future generations.
Get ready to take pen in hand, for the next recording
of Three Rivers history will be yours. The next generation can go
on from where we left off.
(signed) Lucile Haring (signed)
Phyllis Agosti
Lucile Haring
Phyllis Agosti
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