Links to Postcard Photos and Other Images of Otsego County.

  • D.J. Allen's Shop 1909
    (courtesy Margaret Bornick)

  • Another view of West Exeter
    (courtesy Margaret Bornick)

  • Baptist Church - Edmeston
    (courtesy Margaret Bornick)

  • North Street Edmeston - view
    (courtesy Margaret Bornick)

  • Richfield Springs
    (courtesy Margaret Bornick)

  • Burlington Flats
    (courtesy Margaret Bornick)

  • Mayne's Store - Burlington Flats
    (courtesy Margaret Bornick)

  • Village of Hartwick
    (courtesy of Joyce Riedinger)

  • Main street Milford
    (courtesy of Joyce Riedinger)

  • Bird's-eye view of Mt. Vision
    (courtesy of Joyce Riedinger)

  • View of Portlandville flooded by Colliers Dam
    (courtesy of Joyce Riedinger)

  • Main street Schuyler Lake - west view

  • Main street Schuyler Lake - east view

    The next group of photos were contributed by John de Marrais of Worcester. John has shared these gems of the past from his private collection.


  • Stone Arch Bridge, Worcester, from post card

  • South Hill Worcester Bridge, from post card

  • Worcester House, Main St., Worcester Village, post card.

  • American Hotel, Main St., Worcester Village, post card.

  • Electric Pond, site of the old stone carding mill still seen from Interstate 88, Worcester, post card.

  • Worcester Village, post card.

  • Worcester Village railroad station, still partially standing, from post card.

  • Worcester Village, Main St. looking east, post card.

  • Electric Plant, Worcester, post card

  • Street in Worcester Village, post card

  • Worcester Village, Cook St., post card

  • Originally the area called Tusculum, now Tuscan Rd. and Up County Rd. Area of mill site of Silas Crippen, the bridge is by the dam of the lower mill-pond. Adjacent photo is how it appears now. From post card and private photo.

  • Worcester, Caryls Lake, then and now, post card and private photo.

  • Worcester, area of Tusculum, now Tuscan Rd. and Up County Rd., near the mill site of Silas Crippen, this is the dam of the upper mill pond, then and now. From post card and private photo.

  • Worcester, area of Tusculum, now Tuscan Rd. and Up County Rd., near mill site of Silas Crippen, this is the upper mill pond, then and now. From post card and private photo.

  • House and barn near bottom of Hill Rd., Worcester. The barn is gone, the house is very much the same, now owned by John and Caroline de Marrais. Previously owned by Sylvanus & Sarah Covey before 1850, David & Catherine Collins 1850, William & Gertrude Robinson 1850, Alanson Clark 1854, Richard Guernsey 1854, Isaac Ostrander 1874, Wallace & Sarah Hill 1881, John W. & Anna Moak 1881, Mortgage forclosure 1889 bought by Giles Goodenough, 1903 Estelle Goodrich, 1931 Gordon & Dorothy Maclaren, 1937 Florence E. All, William W. Ramsey 1940, Hetty Ramsey 1949, 1954 Walter & Ruth Ramsey, 1980 Robert & Patricia Keck, 1994 John & Caroline de Marrais.

  • Caryl's general store at Tusculum, Worcester, no longer standing, is now the area of Tuscan Rd. and Up County Rd. From the family of Francis Goodrich, Worcester. Goodrich children in foreground.


  • Tusculum, Worcester blacksmith shop, no longer standing, in area of Tuscan Rd. and Up County Rd. Sign above door reads TUSCAN GLEN FARM. From the family of Francis Goodrich, Worcester.

  • Worcesterites - Left-Right, Mrs. Estelle Goodrich (née Goodenough) and husband Silas Theodore Goodrich, and the same two in a hop-picking photo. Can anyone identify the others?

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