Old Local
Postcards and Photos of
Jefferson
County

POSTCARDS OF BELLEVILLE NY
1864 Belleville Map 1888 Belleville Map  

 

 

UNION ACADEMY

BELOW: Side view of the Old Belleville Henderson School (Union Academy)

Belleville NY

BELOW: Side view of the Old Belleville Henderson School (Union Academy)

The Union Academy on Rt 289

 

Belleville's First School Bus:

Below 1909 Football Team

A rare Union Academy Baseball Card:

 

 

DOWNTOWN BUSINESSES

BELOW:

Looking South towards the Bridge

Belleville NY

Below: Facing North - the last buillding on the right is across from Farm pride where restaurant used to be

Belleville NY

These are enlarged scans of the postcard above!

Belleville NY

Belleville NY Belleville NY

 

Below: Facing North - the last building on the right is across from Farm pride where restaurant used to be

Belleville NY

Below: Facing South - the first building on the left is across from Farm pride where restaurant used to be

Belleville NY

 

Below: Facing North - the last buillding on the right is across from Farm pride where restaurant used to be

Belleville NY

 

Below: Facing South towards the bridge

Belleville NY

Belleville NY

Below: Facing South - the first building on the left is across from Farm pride where restaurant used to be

 

 

Below: Facing North - the last buillding on the right is across from Farm pride where restaurant used to be

 

Below: Facing North - down Academy Street - Rt 75

Below is the West side of the main street just past the Fire Department heading south

BELOW: Main Street, Belleville NY facing South toward the bridge

Main Street, Belleville NY

(Gary Beckstead's Postcard:)

 

Below: Facing South - the first building on the left is across from Farm pride where restaurant used to be, Probably before 1915

Postcard reprinted in Newspaper

belleville before 1915

 

BELOW: Where the Coffee Cup restaurant used to be

Stores In Belleville NY

BELOW: old cars in Belleville NY looking North out Academy St

old cars in Belleville NY

 

THE FIELD DAYS IN BELLEVILLE NY

Belleville NY

Belleville NY

Field Day 1922 held on the lawn at Academy Street

 

Field Day 1922 held on the lawn at Academy Street

Field Day 1922 was held on this lawn at Academy Street

Field Day 1922 driving north on Academy Street

Field Day 1922 route on Academy Street NOW

Field Day 1922 route on Academy Street THEN

BELOW: 1922 Field Day in Belleville NY Newspaper scan

1922 Field Day in Belleville NY

 

MISCELLANEOUS POSTCARDS OF BELLEVILLE NY

Below: This was on Tiller Road

Belleville NY

 

 

 

Women in a canoe, near Belleville NY

ABOVE: Women in a canoe, near Belleville NY - doubtful really taken in Belleville

THE GRANGE

 

 

 

 

Obsolete Bank Currency from the Union Academy Bank in Belleville!

 

From Hough's History, 1854

ABOVE: Academic Building From Hough's History, 1854

 

 

MATHER'S MILLS

(Gary Beckstead's Postcard)

 

 

FOOTBRIDGE AND THE CREEK DOWNTOWN

This footbridge would have spanned from behind near where Sharp's is now, near the old "Town Barn"


In the past there was a factory where the Town Barn, now Sharp's storage barn, is and across the creek was another mill,
now just an old foundation

 

BELOW: Belleville Foot Bridge location

 

 

(Gary Beckstead's Postcard:)

(Gary Beckstead's Postcard)

 


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