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Pralls Island is an unihabited island in the Arthur Kill between Staten Island, New York and Linden, New Jersey.  The island is named for a descendant or descendants of early Staten Island settler Arendt Jansen Prall, likely his granson Abraham Prall who was a local farmer.  The island is now owned by the City of New York and is maintained by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation as a bird sanctuary.

Prallsville Mills is a 10-building complex along the Delaware River that became part of the National Register of Historical Places in 1973.  In 1794, John Prall Jr. acquired a property nestled next to the river that included a corn or gristmill and a sawmill. The mills became the heart of Prallsville, a village industrial complex that would continue to function into the early 20th century. 

Pralltown Neighborhood in Lexington, Kentucky is named after Woodbury County native John A. Prall (1827-1907) who was a prominent lawyer, judge, and member of the Kentucky Senate.  The neighborhood was developed between 1868 and 1877 and is the oldest African American neighborhood in Lexington.  It is located across Limestone Street facing the University of Kentucky campus.

The single most referenced text on this site and in our newsletter is The Prall Family, a text written by Richard Dwight Prall, copyright 1990 (ISBN  0962563307).  Richard's extensive research and compilation of data is amazing!  Unfortunately, this text is Out of Print.  If you are interested in obtaining a copy of this text, please contact us.

Prallsville Mills and Stockton by Keith Strunk, copyright 2008 (ISBN  0738556904), contains stories and photos of early Prallsville Mills and Stockton.  The vintage images in Prallsville Mills and Stockton provide a glimpse of the tenacious and generous people that survived floods, fires, and industrial mishaps to prosper in their home along the banks of the Delaware. 

The song There's a Small Hotel by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart refers to Rodgers visit to the Stockton Inn located in Stockton, New Jersey.  The song was written in 1935 intended for the Broadway show "Jumbo", but was cut from the production and ended up in "On Your Toes" the next year.  The song was presented  by Ray Bolger and Doris Carson in 1936, but has also been sung in two separate movies by Betty Garrett and Frank Sinatra and recorded by several artists since its original debut.  Prallsville Mills is located only 0.5 miles from the Stockton Inn, and the inn and original structures of the Mill Complex were built around the same time in the early 1700s.

• The National Genealogical Society is a great resource and has some free materials available at this link.
• Your state and local genealogical societies can be wonderful resources, also.
• There are several options when it comes to online genealogy sites.  A few of these include ancestry.com, geni.com, and familysearch.org.
• There are also many different DNA analysis options including AncestryDNA, 23andme, CRI Genetics, Family Tree DNA, & Living DNA.

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