Aug 05

Businesses to Make Way for Bridge

The Leader-Herald – August 5, 2008

Fonda, NY – Antoinette Capparello is enjoying what will be her last few months in the restaurant and catering business she owns on Route 5.  Capparello will lose her cafe after 18 years, not because of price increases, foreclosure or any other of the multitude of financial troubles affecting businesses. She will close it because of a bridge.

Antoinette Capparello, left, talks with customers Richard Blowers and Robert Green.

When the New York State Department of Transportation begins construction of the new Route 30A bridge, at least two village businesses will lose their locations and three others also may be affected.  Antoinette’s Cafe and Mike’s Pizzeria will be closed to make room for the new bridge. The Fairway Mobile gas station will lose about half its land to the construction. The Dairy Isle ice cream stand and Cathy’s Cafe also may be affected by the construction.

DOT spokeswoman Alice Romynch said the plans are not yet finalized, but the department is going to put the expanded bridge east of where it stands now.  She said the plans should be finalized within the next few months. Construction is slated to be completed in 2009.  As soon as the plans are finalized, a public hearing will be conducted to discuss the new bridge and its impact on the community, Romynch said.

The $3.5 million project will erect a new bridge replacing the almost 60-year-old structure that rises above the CSX railroad tracks.  It will be raised from about 21 feet to 23 feet high, and the state will add a left-turn-only lane from Route 5 west to Route 30A south, a right-turn-only lane from Route 5 east to Route 30A south and a left-turn-only lane from Route 30A to Route 5 west.

The bridge will remain open during construction to ensure traffic is not delayed. Approximately 11,000 vehicles travel over the bridge in a given day, and about 13 percent are tractor-trailers.  In 30 years, the DOT projects, the number will increase to 17,000. (…)

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Jul 27

Cummins Northeast Introduces Alternative Energy Solutions to Fonda-Fultonville School District

Business Wire, August 3, 2004

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Fonda-Fultonville Goes Off-Grid

Dedham, Mass. — Off-Grid, Co-Generation Facility Brings Significant Cost Savings to New York School District. Cummins Northeast Inc., exclusive distributor for Cummins Inc, a global power leader in the design, manufacturing, distribution and service of electric power generation systems, has announced the completion of its Fonda-Fultonville co-generation project in upstate New York. The first grid-independent, co-generation performance project of its kind in a New York school system, it provides the Fonda-Fultonville school district with all the energy necessary to heat and cool its single-campus institution, thus achieving significant energy efficiency and cost-savings.

“As a result of the Cummins Northeast off-grid project, we estimate that the Fonda-Fultonville school district will save $275,000 each calendar year,” said Glenn Goodale, Superintendent of Schools. “Instead of spending money on energy, we could now focus on reducing our budget, introducing new social and instructional programs, enhancing our district staffing, and directly impacting the teaching and learning programs.” Also see Energy Concepts

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Jan 01

This is a duplicate of the listing on the fonda.org website.

  1. Jellis Adam Fonda; Gunstocker; born 1670, died 8-Sep-1737 at 67 years of age; b. Albany, New, York; Jellis was in Albany in 1697, and Schenectady, 1700-20. In 1777, a Petition was sent to the New York Provincial Legislature to split Albany Co. into two counties to create the new county of Tryon, after Gov. Wm. Tryon. Many of those same men who signed were Loyalists. Jellis Fonda, Douw Fonda, Arent Bradt (among many other names and many were illegible).
  2. Jellis Douw Fonda; Innkeeper, Distiller, Blacksmith; born 1614, died 1659 at 45 years of age; Jellis Douwes Fonda (1614-1659) emigrated to America from Aegum (Agum), Friesland, Netherlands in about 1649. He had his wife, Hester and three young children upon arrival in Fort Orange (now Albany, New York) in 1651. Jellis had been an innkeeper in Agum, and was a brandy distiller and a Blacksmith in America. His date of death is uncertain, but must have been before Hester remarried, in 1660; see Stories for more…
  3. Jellis Jacob Fonda; Gunstocker, Revolutionary War Officer (Major); born 13-Jan-1751, died 1839 at 88 years of age; b. Schenectady, New York; d. Glenville, New York; see Stories for more…
  4. John Cornelius Fonda; Carder (Cotton Mill), Inventor; born 12-Jan-1813, died 1-Jul-1896 at 83 years of age; b. Kinderhook, Columbia, New York; 1880 United States Census, Cohoes, Albany, New York; res. Canajoharie, Montgomery Co., New York; New York State Patent No. 8261 John C. Fonda, Albany, Albany Co., improvement in machines for grinding flock (pulp grinder), 7/29/1851.
  5. Pieter Jellise Fonda; Tanner; born 6-Mar-1711, died 25-Sep-1775 at 64 years of age; b. Schenectady, Albany Co., New York; lived on southerly side of State St. and Mill Lane and had his vats in rear of his lot.

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Jan 01

  1. [R035] Amsterdam Records of the Fonda Family; Cooney, Robert G. Jr.; The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record; New York, NY; Vol. 119, No. 1 (January 1988), pp.1-5
  2. [R035a] The Abraham Fonda Family: of the Boght in the Manor of Rensselaerwick, Albany County, New York; Cook, William Burt; Cohoes Historical Society; Cohoes, NY; 1949
  3. [R035b] Family, Bible, Church and Cemetery Records; Fonda Burial Plot, Town of Colonie, Albany Co., NY; from the records of Albany Rural Cemetery, copied August 1927, by Wm. B. Cook Jr for the Cohoes Historical Society, presented to the Daughters of the American Revolution; Mrs. Henry W. English, Librarian, Illinois D. A. R., 1928, Morgan Co., IL, NSDAR Library.
  4. [R036a] Century Farms, 1847-1947; The Fonda Farm, Montgomery County; New York State Agricultural Society; Ballston Spa, NY; 1947
  5. [R037] Family Bible of Douw Adam Fonda (1824-1902); Genealogical Records Committee Report; Massachusetts DAR; unknown; 1996; Series 2, Vol. 8 (p.47-53)
  6. [R037a] Family Bible of Abraham A. Fonda (1759-1804); originally owned by Abraham A. Fonda, now owned by Clark Galloway, transcribed by Nate Carter; Fonda, Abraham A.; New Netherlands Connections; 1801
  7. [R038] The Douwe and Aaltje Fonda Marriages and Families; The American Genealogist; New Haven, CT; Vol. 37:95,136 (April, July 1961)
  8. [R038a] The Dutch Settlers Society of Albany Yearbook: The Fonda Family; McConville, Howard A.; The Dutch Settlers Society of Albany; Albany, NY; 48:17-20 (1981), 49:28-36 (1984)
  9. [R039] Fonda Family Genealogy; Fonda, Marion Getman; Montgomery County Dept. of History & Archives; Fonda, NY; 1971; 230 pgs
  10. [R040] Bible of General Henry Adam Fonda (b.1766); owned by Mrs. Arch Argersinger, granddaughter and resident of Henry Fonda Farm; Welch, Mrs. John A.; Mayfield, NY; 1911
  11. [R041] Fonda Family History; Fonda, Cornelia Dockstader; Montgomery County Dept. of History & Archives; Fonda, NY; 1940; 27 pgs
  12. [R042] Fonda, A Family in the Hudson River Valley; Cadier, Richard D.; New York, NY; 1985; 19 pgs
  13. [R043] De Fryske Ofstamming Fan Myn Fiere Efternicht Jane Fonda (The Frisian Descent of My Distant Cousin Jane Fonda); Van der Meer, D.J.; Genealogysk Jierboek, Fryske Akademy; Leewarden, Netherlands; 1986; p.64-68
  14. [R044] Innes Getty Collection: Jellis Douwse Fonda; The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society; New York, NY; 1957
  15. [R044a] John H. Fonda’s Explorations in the Southwest; Goodwin, Cardinal; Southwestern Historical Quarterly; Austin, TX; 1919; July, Vol.23, Iss.1, p.39-46
  16. [R047] The Marlette and Fonda Records; Spencer, Frances; Montgomery County Old Courthouse; Fonda, NY; 1982; 60 pgs
  17. [R047a] Jelle Douwese Fonda: New Netherland Database (Family Group Record); Cooney, Robert G. Jr.; Dutch Family Heritage Society Quarterly; West Jordan, UT; 1995; Vol.8, Iss.2, p.31-35
  18. [R048a] Old Dutch Families: Fonda Family; Schermerhorn, Richard Jr.; De Halve Maen (Holland Society of New York Quarterly); New York, NY; 1945; Jan., Vol.20, Iss.1, p.5
  19. [R049] Lineage of William Henry Fonda (1829-1926) and his wife Julia Anna Sheldon (1834-1911) and their descendants through 1982; Fonda, BeverleyG.; Silver Springs, MD; 1983; 23 pgs
  20. [R065] A Career Woman in 17th Century New York (Hester Jans); The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record; New York, NY; Vol. 95, No. 5 (July 1964), pp.129-137

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Jan 01

Foyngha, Netherlands

The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, “Amsterdam Records of the Fonda Family” states: “In Frisian records van der Meer did not find any mention of the name Fonda, but in the vicinity of Kollum in northeast Friesland, where Benedictus Jacobse (Fonda) lived, he came across the names Banda, Ronda and Sinda. He also noted that in 1580 Benedictus was manager of an estate near Kollum called ‘Foyngha,’ and there was a chance that ‘Fonda’ was a corruption of that name.”

Eagum, Netherlands

Continuing from the above document, “Gillis (Jelles, pronounced “Yelles”) Fonda first appears in America in the Rensselaerwyck records on October 15, 1651 when he requested court permission to distill liquor in the Green Bos, in the house belonging to Evert Pels, next to a brewery. The date of his arrival in the colony or on what vessel he arrived is not in the records. According to the publication of the banns for his marriage to Hester Douwess on Jan. 19, 1641, he was from Agum or Aegum (or Eagum), a small village in the present municipality of Idaarderadeel in the Province of Friesland, the Netherlands. He was at that time 25 years old and his parents were deceased. Hester was from Amsterdam and 24 years old. Her stepmother Elsgen Douwes assisted her at the banns. They were married at Diemen, on February 10, 1641. Diemen is a place close to Amsterdam.”

The site of Jilles Douwe (Fonda) farm in Eagum, Netherlands before he and family left for America in 1650 has been located:

Eagum Farmhouse

Eagum Farmhouse

Eagum Streetsign

Eagum Streetsign

Eagum Aerial Photo

Eagum Aerial Photo

Photos courtesy of Peter de Haan (1st 2 photos) and Liuwe Douwes van der Meer (3rd photo), both distant cousins.
See this location in Google Maps. (Distances: Eagum is 153 km northeast of Amsterdam and 36 km southwest from Kollum. Diemen is 8 km southeast from Amsterdam.)

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