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DAVENPORT, FACT AND FANCY
by Mary S. Briggs
Editor and Co-contributor, Alan M. Strout
Map and Photo Editor, David M. Griswold
CD-ROM Editor, Nathan Preston
CD-ROM Supplement, 'The Davenport Story', Jeffrey C. Griswold
Davenport Historical Society, 2004

Many thanks to the Davenport Historical Society for allowing us to include their incredibly well done book "Davenport, Fact and Fancy" on the dcnyhistory.org website.

A newly revised CD-ROM designed as an accompaniment to "Davenport, Fact and Fancy" has just been released (July 2005) and is available through the Davenport Historical Society. The CD-ROM contains additional materials omitted from the book such as full size images of thumbnail photos, a number of old Davenport newspaper pages, town officers and PO officials, WWI and II enlistees, a couple of research papers on early Davenport population, the complete 1865 Davenport farm census, and a fine supplement containing the John Davenport genealogy and documents about John Davenport's sole (but illegitimate) child and heir.

The CD also contains the book in HTML and PDF format along with four Adobe readers.

While it is fantastic to have the book online, there is nothing like having the hardcopy book in hand along with the CD-ROM to enjoy fast access to the massive amount of materials, photos, maps, and the 'additional materials' section of the CD.

Orders can be placed with the Davenport Historical Society. A price list for the CD and/or the Book along with other publications and an address to which checks may be sent are given on the 'About Us' page.

In this online version of the book, "Davenport, Fact and Fancy", the links 'back', 'home' and 'next' will work, however, the 'up' link has been rendered non-functional. --Joyce Riedinger, August 12, 2005

"Davenport, Fact and Fancy"

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ERRATA
Those who already own a copy of the 2004 printed edition of Davenport, Fact and Fancy may want to note the following corrections that have been made in this online html version:

Leo Lomangino's name is even more embarrassingly misspelled "Lomongino" (pp. 78 & 78 sidebar) or "Lomagino" (pp. 218 &a,[; 221 caption for DHS #16.01. Double ouch).
Caption for photo #1.02, chapter 1, should read "Charlotte valley looking west toward [not 'east from'] the vicinity of High Point from Hebbard's upper pasture above what became County Route 9 [not 'Route 23'], p. 3.
Caption for thumbnail photo #7l at the end of chapter 7, should have "(Burr Riffenburg, owner)" inserted directly after "'Dayton's Store'", p. 100. The full caption under Additional Materials should correct spelling from "Rifenburg" to "Riffenburg" [double "f", not single].
Fourth line of caption for photo #9.02 should read "Joyce McMullen" [not 'Carol McMullen'], p. 124. Caption for #10.06 (p. 150): Myrtle Dent's middle name is Barber, not Brown.
Caption for photo DHS #12.03, 3rd line from bottom in text version, should read 'Bob Eckland' [not 'Gerald Butts'], p. 167.
Caption for #16f, p. 228: The house that burned was of George Mars Hillis and not that of Lacell Hillis. The caption on the same photo found under Additional Materials on the CD should of course also be corrected.
Owner of the property on which the Davenport transfer station now rests was not Charlotte Lamphere (sidebar, p. 211) but Blanche Looney. The spelling of "Blanche" should also be corrected on page 154 and in the Index, under Looney.
Caption for photo #16f: The house that burned was that of George Mars Hillis and not that of Lacell Hillis, p. 228.

Index entries should be also corrected as follows:
Dent, Myrtle Brown -> Dent, Myrtle Barber
Hillis, Lacel -> Hillis, George Mars
Lamphere, Charlotte -> Looney, Blanche
Lomongino -> Lomangino
McMullen: Carol -> McMullen: Joyce
Store: Dayton's -> Store: Riffenburg

All of the above changes have been made in the Web version of the book's text, but not the page-by-page (PDF) version, in the newly revised (July 2005) CD-ROM.

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