Railroad Avenue Then & Now

View from Railroad Avenue looking across the tracks: 

See brick building left.
Aunt Hannah w/ John Dudley Jr.

Me standing beside that
brick building.

They've turned what was once Railroad Avenue into a small park that commemorates where the old Roscoe House hotel once stood. I think it was torn down before I was born but my brother remembers it. The Dudley's house was next to the hotel. A few houses down was the Jones' house where my great grandparents and grandmother Elizabeth lived and where my father came to live as a teen.  The park is now a shady stretch that runs alongside of the Willowemoc River.  I walked and then stood where I thought the end of the Jones' property had been. The view of the Willowemoc had not changed.

The view from the Dudley's back yard.  You can
see the back of the main building and an extension
of the Roscoe House.
Jean and Claude Newkirk. Leona Dudley's kids.

View of Willowemoc River from the end of Dudley & Jones' property:

Iron bridge has been replaced
with a cement roadway.