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Your Story
Do you have stories you’d like to share? Contact us on our contact page. We’d love to hear and record or read and post your stories.
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Today is tomorrows history
Keep a journal and encourage your children to keep journals and take photos. Events that we think are everyday will be fascinating to future generations!
A special thanks to...
Many of you have contributed your photos and your stories. We greatly appreciate all of you that have taken the time to share with us.
A special thank you to Pat Wardell for her countless hours of work as Allendale’s tireless historian. Please see the link below to Pat’s book written in 1994, “Allendale: the Background of a Borough”.
Thank you also to Fred Litt for the hours of scanning and cataloging many dusty boxes of files; an overwhelming project that he was driven to accomplish.
“My children are 6th generation Allendale residents and one of my favorite things to share with them are the letters I have from my grandmother filled with stories of the early days of Allendale. I enjoy picturing the dusty roads, the cool swimming holes and the cider cup on the nail that the children drank from on their way home from school.” Joanne (Ivers Barrett Haviland) Hart
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