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Vintage Photos
The Noxen Theater movie calendar above,
which currently hangs in the Wyoming County
Historical Society in Tunkhannock, shows all the hits playing there in
September, 1951.
A sawmill crew, probably in Stull.
Some are wearing spiked shoes, used to help roll logs.
Tannery Workers
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An old postcard showing a view of town. The empty spot on the far
right corner of the intersection shows where the Starr Hotel (which burned
down) used to stand.
A postcard showing a
scenic view, probably
taken from
Dimmock Hill (dirt road off of Lake Road on the left). |
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Front and back of a
post card featuring St. Luke's Lutheran Church. |
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At left is
a copy of the Noxen Township expenditures from the ledger of John
Melvin French, a prominent businessman in the town before it was
even called Noxen. The business name is unknown but it may have
involved building and repairing homes.
French
was born July 2, 1853 in New York and married Eliza Sickler, born
August 1856. Eliza was
the daughter of Ziba Sickler, who laid out the Noxen town plot while
it was being formed.
John
and Eliza French had five children. Their
son, Myron (Mike) Everett French, was born August 11, 1888. In
May 1915, he married Dorothy
Lillian Jones, who was born November 20, 1899. Besides sharing ownership
of
a bicycle shop on Kingston Corners from 1915 until 1923, Myron opened up a Harley Davidson motorcycle shop in Scranton. He
lost the business in 1936, during the depression. |
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Standing, from left,
Angeline Montayne Jones* and Lavina Montayne
Seated, from left, Margaret Ide, Mary Wright, and Caleb Ide’s mother
Standing, from left,
Fred Jones, Albert Wright, Tom Wright, and Frank Wright
Seated, from left, Theodre S. (Dory) Jones (holding Blanche Jones), Lavina Montayne, and
Caleb Ide
Seated, first row, Edith Jones, William Wright, and Margaret Jones
*Angeline Montayne was born in 1849. She was the mother of Theodore
Jones, born 1872. His father was William Fredrick Jones born 1849. The
Jones family came from Allentown area right after Theodore was born. His
mother had to stop along the way to nurse him. |
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This home on Island Road was built by Theodore S. (Dory) Jones.
Despite losing his right hand* in a portable lumbermill in Noxen or Bowmans
Creek, he built the home in the 30s with the help of Melvin Hopfer and
son-in-law and friends. Dory had many friends and played in a
town band (possibly the fiddle). He made up a song about the Tunkhannock
jail and was a jokester and prankster of sorts. He even served as town tax
collector for a time.
*The story about the amputation goes as follows:
Dory had stepped on a large leather belt that helped turn the saw blade.
He stumbled head first towards the blade and put out his hand to catch
himself. The blade cut right between his fingers up to his wrist and
splintered his wrist bone. He was rushed to his own home where the
doctor amputated his hand and lower forearm right on his own kitchen table
with a meat saw. It is said he drank quite a bit of whiskey to see him
through, but he had a few angry words for the doctor, calling him a "swarthy
so-and-so."
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This
house in Noxen was built by Captain James French, father of John Melvin
French.
It still stands on Tunkhannock Road. |
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This one room school
still stands. The ambulance is stored there.
One of the attendees was Dorothy Lillian Jones, wife of Myron (Mike) French. |
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| Special thanks to
Lorraine Hopfer Brelsford for the photos and information on this page. |
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