Content Description Correspondence, reports, surveys, clippings, account books, maps, deeds, and other records relating to lands owned, developed, and exchanged by Nicholas Devereux in New York State. These papers include references to to the Erie Railroad, the Rossie Lead Mining Company, the Bank of Ellicottville, James Le Ray de Chaumont, Nicholas Devereux and Company, Devereux Land Office, Ellicottville Land Office, the Holland Land Company, and to the establishment of a shoe factory and other commercial...

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Collection contains photographs and negatives of a carnival unloading and canal boats unloading in Ithaca, New York, as well as the Presbyterian Church in Trumansburg, New York. Also included is an article, "Henry N. Nevins, Master Yacht Builder" by William H. Taylor, reprinted from 'Yachting' in 1950 and an article entitled, "The Christmas Star" by Henry M. Devereux (1950) in which he discusses the probable astronomical explanation of the Star of Bethlehem.