Historian Keith Lockhart is knee deep in photos, postcards and photo-based illustrations from days gone by, some of which might be out of the memory of anyone alive in Delaware County, especially today’s.
He’s cataloging these markers of the past, and that’s where your help comes in.
Keith says this week’s mystery is a very early picture c.1912 of the Colwyn Fire Company members marching on an unknown street in Colwyn. He’s looking for the block, cross street etc., anything identifiable.
Think you know something? Keith’s email is keith106@rcn.com. Check out more from Keith at delawarecountyhistory.com.
Here’s what you had to say about last week’s mystery regarding Clifton Heights’ first school:
• “Today’s mystery photo is a good one. I don’t know the answer, but a 1906 map shows “PUB. SCH.” on the first block of North Diamond Street, about where the old Clifton Elementary School was located. I don’t think it is the same building as what I knew as the elementary school though. I recall that there were still brick walks in the vicinity of Diamond St. and Harrison Ave. in the early ’70s and it looks like today’s postcard might show a brick sidewalk (hard to tell).” — Greg Shaffer
• “The Clifton Heights Public School Building was located on North Diamond Street above Baltimore Pike and below Harrison Avenue on the east side of the street. Its former site corresponds to the area where the homes at 51–57 North Diamond Street stand today.” — Dennis & Jack McKnight
• “The original Clifton Heights Elementary school was built in 1912 located on Diamond Avenue near Baltimore Avenue. The school building was the primary public school facility in the area for many years before being demolished in 1953 to make way for a new elementary school on the same site.” — Kevin Ostien.
We think it’s a mystery no more.