Chemung County is in the southwestern part of New York State, along the Pennsylvania border, in a part of New York called the Southern Tier and is also part of the Finger Lakes Region. There are 4 public and 3 private high schools in Chemung County, New York, serving approximately 4,000 students annually.

The High Falls Club was located near what was once Wilmurt, New York in Herkimer County. The club owned a cabin in the Adirondacks which was used for camping and hunting.

The yearbooks for Hicksville's public and private schools were digitized in 2019 as part of a preservation initiative.

Founded by accident in 1836, when a financial depression brought the Long Island Railroad to a stop at Broadway, Hicksville started as a train station then a hotel then a real estate deal and then slowly…very slowly, in spite of wars and pestilence, grew into the thriving community it is today. The definition of the American Melting Pot and the American Dream, Hicksville has a fascinating multiethnic history and a proud Military and Patriotic tradition with an influence far beyond its borders. And yes, Billy Joel lived here.

Cold Spring became a Customhouse in the Customs Collection District of New York in 1799. The customhouse was responsible for enrolling and licensing ships, at the time primarily for fishing and trading, and for clearing ships sailing from the port. Jacob Cole Hewlett held the post of Surveyor of Customs for over 20 years during the mid-nineteenth century including during its time as a whaling port. The port supported a variety of related trades in Cold Spring including a lumber yard, coopery, and two wharves.
In 1836 brothers, John Hewlett Jones and Walter Restored Jones, and 32 other local investors founded the Cold Spring Whaling Company. During its operation, the Cold Spring Whaling Company financed 44 voyages on 9 ships. John H. Jones was the principal agent for the company until it was disbanded in 1852. He coordinated the voyages by hiring whalers and outfitting the ships from his General Store in Cold Spring. Walter R. Jones recruited investors and located ships for the fleet using his connections as the president of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company. Amos and Samuel Willets, of the ship chandler shop A & S Willets, obtained stores and gear for the voyages and sold whale oil and bone on behalf of the Cold Spring Whaling Company.
Although the Cold Spring Post Office added “Harbor” to the town’s name in 1826 to avoid confusion with the upstate New York town of Cold Spring, the residents of Cold Spring Harbor referred to the town as “Cold Spring” for the majority of the nineteenth century.
The Hewlett-Jones collection was assembled by descendants of the Hewlett and Jones families and donated to the Whaling Museum in 1971.

Named for its abundance of freshwater springs, Cold Spring became a port of delivery in 1799. “Harbor” was added to the name in 1826 to avoid confusion with a similarly named town on the Hudson River. The village became a whaling port in 1836 when John H. and Walter R. Jones persuaded 33 friends to purchase the three-masted bark Monmouth from Boston. The Cold Spring Whaling Company grew to own 9 ships which sailed to every ocean on 44 voyages. Though the whaling company’s existence was relatively brief (1836-1858), the industry was a local economic anchor.
Cold Spring Harbor resident John Hewlett Jones seemed to have the Midas touch. At 23 his father gave him two parcels of land on which he built his first home and a small general store. By 1820 he opened two textile mills whose wool was awarded in New City the Next Year. When the woolen business began to lag due to global competition he turned to whaling, becoming the principal figure and managing agent of the Cold Spring Whaling Company.
John H. and Walter R. Jones were proprietors of numerous other businesses both in & out of Cold Spring Harbor including a grist mill, cooper’s shop, the Cold Spring Steamboat Company, lightering business, and the Hicksville and Cold Spring Railroad Company.

The St. Lawrence-Lewis School Library System collection consists of high school yearbooks from area high schools. The Heuveltonian is the annual yearbook of Heuvelton Central School.

The St. Lawrence-Lewis School Library System collection consists of high school yearbooks from area high schools. The Demon is the annual yearbook of Hermon-Dekalb Central School.

Herbert Lee Pratt (November 21, 1871 – February 3, 1945) was an American businessman and a leading figure in the United States oil industry; from 1923 he was head of Standard Oil - his father Charles Pratt was a founder of Astral Oil Works which later became part of Standard Oil. He lived and worked in New York City, as well as having a country estate, The Braes, in Glen Cove, Long Island, and a hunting preserve and estate, Good Hope Plantation in Ridgeland, South Carolina. He was an art collector and philanthropist.

Henry Uihlein II (1896 - 1997) was a successful businessman internationally-known philanthropist. Uihlein was also a sports organizer with a passion for speed skating and enthusiastic supporter of the 1924 Olympic champion skater, Charles Jewtraw. He was also prominent in speed skating organizations on both the national and local levels. He was instrumental in bringing the Eastern Championships of speed skating to Lake Placid in 1914 and the village’s first International event in 1920 when they hosted the International Outdoor Speed Skating Championships. Largely through Uihlein’s efforts, Lake Placid gained world-wide recognition as a skating and winter sports center.