Stage Road circa 1910. Photos provided by the Monroe Historical Society.
The Monroe Dairy Association building circa 1900 on 17M Monroe (in the area of the New Monroe Farms).
The center of the Village of Monroe, circa 1905.
This train, pictured at the old station in Monroe in 1939, was headed to the World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows in Queens.
The Monroe Historical Society’s annual walking tour of the Village of Monroe will take place Saturday, Sept. 25, beginning at 10 a.m.
The tour begins on the south side of the Lake Street bridge between the ponds. The group will proceed up Lake Street and down Stage Road, ending at McGarrah’s Stagecoach Inn.
“You will learn the history of the village, which will include early photos of our village,” Holly Dean-Oser, the historical society’s president, said in the press release announcing the tour.
Paul Ellis Graham will lead the program.
The tour is free to the public and no reservations are necessary.
No rain date.