Town of Wheatland New York

by Barb Chapman - Wheatland Town Historian I recently purchased the September 16, 1882 issue of The American Rural Home on e-Bay. The...

by Barb Chapman, Wheatland Town Historian Ebenezer “Indian” Allan was the first, and probably the most famous and fascinating character...

by Barb Chapman, Wheatland Town Historian At four-thirty in the morning of November 11, 1918, Rev. P. J. McArdle of St. Mary’s Church in...

By Barb Chapman, Town Historian As I was sitting in my office at the Wheatland town hall on a late summer Tuesday afternoon, a...

by Barb Chapman, Wheatland Town Historian Soon after settlement of the area, vast deposits of gypsum were discovered beneath the ground....

by Barb Chapman, Wheatland Town Historian The following stories have not been widely told in the Town of Wheatland because they involved...