Our "Glimpses" provide a quick look at the important places, people, and things in Letchworth Park History. We have organized them into important time periods in the Park's history. Visit this page often, for we will be continually adding to it!
You will also find additional material on many of these topics in our Pieces of the Past
The Time of the Old Ones (beginnings to 1830's)
Seneca Villages in Letchworth Park
Treaties Relating to Letchworth Park
The Pioneer Era (1790's- 1850's)
The Fancher Family - Pioneers of Letchworth Park
Gibsonville, An Early Village on the Genesee
The Days of the Glen Iris (1859-1910)
William Pryor Letchworth: Humanitarian
The Story of the Glen Iris Inn
The Glen Iris Threatened; The Portage Dam
Project
136th New York Infantry Regiment
Henry Kirke Bush-Brown, Creator of the Mary
Jemison Statue
George Shattuck Morison, "A Man for All
Bridges"
William Webster - Creator of the Glen Iris Estate
Years of Growth and Change (1910-1990's)
How the Park Administration Evolved
Letchworth Park's Prisoner of War Camp
Law Enforcement in the Parks - The Development
of Letchworth's Park Police
The Flood of '72 (a "Pieces of the Past"
Photo Essay)
Memories of the Mounted Patrol (a "Pieces
of the Past" Photo Essay)
The Park Today
The William Pryor Letchworth Museum
A Special Rock at Inspiration Point
Greetings from the Highbanks - ( A "Pieces
of the Past" collection of period postcards)
The Vernacular - Local Place names in Letchworth
Park
Council Grounds Restoration 2005-2006
The Return of the Rustic Arbor
Our Letchworth Park Centennial Page
Other Related "Glimpses"
Boyd & Parker Memorial and Sullivan Monument
Moses Van Campen, Revolutionary Soldier
Horatio Jones, A Person of Interest