The Buffalo Colony, Woodbourne, NY
 




History

Gradually we have been gathering pictures and memories about the history of the Buffalo Colony before it became the Buffalo Colony, so here they are, somewhat in order, gathered together.

  • A visit in 2007 from three generations of Jacobys, and some pictures they sent us.

  • An email sent to us by Annice Jacoby in 2007, together with a letter she wrote to the New York Times in 2003 after the article in the Escapes section appeared.

  • A story (fiction) written by Annice based on her memories of Jacobys.

  • Pictures from Steve Tenenbaum who spent "six of the greatest summers of my life at Jacoby's Bungalow Colony in the 60s." This was before the camp became Orthodox.

  • A picture from Sam Fenig, who came to Jacobys as a kid in the 1950s.

  • A picture of the farmhouse in the 1930s from Rowena Lachant, whose family was the first to farm the Colony. Roz talked to her at length, and wrote an account of their conversation.

  • Pictures of Woodbourne from more than a hundred years ago from Jean Noval, who works for our insurance agent and whose family has lived in Woodbourne for generations.