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Re: Yewdall's Mill
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The Library of Congress memory collection online has image graphics of:
America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets--
The girl from Yewdall's Mill. By Jimmy Smith. Air: "The Raging Canal." T.
M. Scroggy, Publisher, No. 1232 Vine Street. Stationery, Toys, Varieties
and Mouth Organs. [n. d.]
DIGITAL ID = as104450
T. M. Scroggy was a Philadelphia publisher.

Mike RANSOM

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Ruch


This is very interesting, as the song has long been associated with the
Erie Canal.  It has appeared in numerous compilations of Erie Canal song
and verse.  Hmmm......I wonder how I can find out more.

----- Original Message -----
From: James Corsaro

I think the Yewdall's Mill you are speaking about is in Pennsylvania. There
was a Yewdall's Mill in Philadelphia in the 19th century and there was and
is still a Phoenixville, PA near Reading, PA today. There is a Fairmount
Park in Philadelphia and a couple of Fairmount towns in PA. as well.

Jim Corsaro

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A resident of my town has asked me if Yewdall's Mill, featured in the folk
song, "The Girl From Yewdall's Mill," was real or fictitious.  The canal
song also mentions Fairmount and Phoenixville and Ginea Hill.  French's
Gazetteer lists Fairmount as a canal stop in the town of Camillus in
Onondaga County.  Phoenixville may be Phoenix in the town of Schroeppel in
Oswego County.  Neither French's nor Spafford's refer to Yewdall's Mill.
Does anyone have any knowledge of this place?

Mary Jo Lanphear
Town of Brighton Historian

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