Glad to meet you, Mary! Great service the TVCVB is doing with the History Blog. You might want to list all of the members of the History Council, and describe it.
Mary: You are doing a great job with the CVB website and your dedication to the history of the area is to be commended too. Even though I left my beloved Tri-Valley a year ago I still stay in touch through websites and emails almost daily. I am now the vice president and program chair for the DeKalb County Historical & Genalogical Society which covers a county 18 miles wide by 36 miles deep in northern Illinois. Plus that I do oral histories for the Joiner History Room, which is a county board funded project to preserve all county records, photo collections and publications. They just published an Arcadia pictorial history of Sycamore, our county seat and last year completed a three year project publishing a hardbound book of all the county’s one room schools, nearly a hundred of them in a century. It has nearly sold out. An aside, my mother is mentioned in the book as she taught in three country schools here in the 1920s-30s era.
I look forward to checking into your site on a regular basis.
Barry Schrader
This is not a reply to anything but a question. I hope someone will read it–thank you, if you do!
Several of my ancestors lived in what they called the Livermore Valley. My great-great-grandfather was “the first postmaster of Ladsville,” where he also had a general store for a time, before establishing the Graham Mortuary in Livermore.
I can’t find any reference to this Ladsville anywhere on the Internet. Does someone here know what part of the valley or town that might have been? Or perhaps the information I am working from misunderstood the name of the place. I’d appreciate any information on the subject. Thanks,
Gretchen McPherson
Sonoma County
Ladsville was located sort of where Junction Ave school now sits. If you’re on old First Street, going toward the car washes, and then follow the road over the railroad tracks onto Junction Ave, you’re in the heart of old Ladsville. I’ve read that it was a volatile community and was eventually burned to the ground. I think I remember reading that it was around the time the railroad came through the valley(?). The Livermore Heritage guild has lots of info: http://www.livermorehistory.com/Contact%20Us/Contact%20Us.html
Glad to meet you, Mary! Great service the TVCVB is doing with the History Blog. You might want to list all of the members of the History Council, and describe it.
George
Mary: You are doing a great job with the CVB website and your dedication to the history of the area is to be commended too. Even though I left my beloved Tri-Valley a year ago I still stay in touch through websites and emails almost daily. I am now the vice president and program chair for the DeKalb County Historical & Genalogical Society which covers a county 18 miles wide by 36 miles deep in northern Illinois. Plus that I do oral histories for the Joiner History Room, which is a county board funded project to preserve all county records, photo collections and publications. They just published an Arcadia pictorial history of Sycamore, our county seat and last year completed a three year project publishing a hardbound book of all the county’s one room schools, nearly a hundred of them in a century. It has nearly sold out. An aside, my mother is mentioned in the book as she taught in three country schools here in the 1920s-30s era.
I look forward to checking into your site on a regular basis.
Barry Schrader
This is not a reply to anything but a question. I hope someone will read it–thank you, if you do!
Several of my ancestors lived in what they called the Livermore Valley. My great-great-grandfather was “the first postmaster of Ladsville,” where he also had a general store for a time, before establishing the Graham Mortuary in Livermore.
I can’t find any reference to this Ladsville anywhere on the Internet. Does someone here know what part of the valley or town that might have been? Or perhaps the information I am working from misunderstood the name of the place. I’d appreciate any information on the subject. Thanks,
Gretchen McPherson
Sonoma County
Ladsville was located sort of where Junction Ave school now sits. If you’re on old First Street, going toward the car washes, and then follow the road over the railroad tracks onto Junction Ave, you’re in the heart of old Ladsville. I’ve read that it was a volatile community and was eventually burned to the ground. I think I remember reading that it was around the time the railroad came through the valley(?). The Livermore Heritage guild has lots of info: http://www.livermorehistory.com/Contact%20Us/Contact%20Us.html
Happy hunting