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This short description of some of the major activities of the pioneer will indicate the enor- mous amount of labor which he performed by hand. But let us not assume that the life of the pioneer was entirely devoid of amusements and
cther intervals of pleasure and entertainment. Around the hearth in front of the wide-open fire- place, the long winter evenings gave time for re- laxation. Such games as fox-and-geese and check- ers were played on boards made by hand. Even the pieces were skillfully carved out of native wood, the black men being made of some dark wood such as walnut, and the white men carved from white wood. Foot-power lathes often pro- duced very ornamental specimens. Rollicking gatherings of young and old, held in one of the larger cabins, made merry far into the night, and summer gatherings brought the whole communi- ties together for feasting and song. The women held quilting bees, sewing bees, and even apple paring bees. The men attended logging bees, barn raisings, house raisings and the women also were on hand to supply the food and refreshments. The men went fishing, the women went blackberrying and the whole family went to church and attended the "donation" for the preacher, or flocked to the community picnic. The old pioneers worked hard, and they played hard, but they had an eye on the future. They strove to prepare the land for their children and their grandchildren. Outstanding- among the many virtues was the friendliness they manifested toward each other. If a man fell sick his neighbors made a bee and put in his crops for him. If a cabin burned the united community joined in rebuilding it and donating furniture and utensils to refurnish it. One person's woe became the sorrow of all. They were blunt-spoken and of- ten intolerant but they were good neighbors and true friends. Steuben has just reason to pro- foundly respect the memory of the brave and self-reliant men and women who dared to face the all-too-real perils of the wilderness and be- come her pioneers.
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GENEVA ST. HALSEY ST. HAVERLING ST.
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HOWELL ST. HUBBELL ST. HUDSON ST. KINGSLEY ST. LACKAWANNA ST. LIBERTY ST. LYON ST. MAINE ST. MAY ST. MCMASTER ST. MORRIS E. . ST.
E3 C4 F1 C2 E5 E4 D2 E1 I5 G3 F5
MORRIS W. ST. B4
MURRAY AVE. F6 C4
ONTARIO ST.
PINE S. ST. PROSPECT ST. PULTENEY E. ST. G3 C5 D3 F5 F2 E6 DI PINE N. ST. D3 D5 H3 E5 PULTENEY W. ST. E5 PURDY ST. R.R. AVE. ROBIE ST. RUMSEY ST. SHANNON ST. SOUTH ST. SPRING ST. STEUBEN E. ST. E5
STEUBEN W. ST. D5
VERMONT ST. E2 E2
1 Ist. Pres. ch. E5
14 Court House E5
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28 Power Plant D6
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29 Stewart Hill Park E2
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Steuben Courier
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6 Chris. Sci. Ch. E3
19
Nondaga Cem. H2
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20 Grove Cem. G5
STREET INDEX
9 Masonic Temple E5
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HAMMONDSPORT E1
F2
TO COUNTY HOME E1
11 Elks Club E5
24 Post Office E4
25 Davenport Library D5
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STREET_INDEX
ALLEN ST. 82
ARK ST. E5
3 Cent. M.E. Ch. E3
BELFAST ST. A3 E4 D4 WILLIAM E. ST.
D5 G3
WILLIAM W. ST. WILSON ST. WOOD ST.
D4 F5
7 Haverling High Sch. 8 Bath Hospital F5
G5
C1 TO KANONA
10 I.O.O.F. Hall D4
23 Pioneer Bury'g GroundES
TO
12
K. of C. Club F5
13 Grange Hall E4
26
Davenport Orph's Home D6 Municipal Hall E4
2 Ist. Bapt. Ch. B4
15 County Clerk's Of.
16 Surrogate's Office
17 County off. Bldg.
F5
DELAWARE
1200' 1600'
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4 St. Thomas Epis. Ch. E3
F4
21 Holy Cross Cem. G5
D1 A2
22 Holy Sepulchre Cem. F1
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TUSCARORA
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ADDISON
Addison was formed as Middletown on March 18, 1796. It was called Tuscarora by the earliest settlers. On April 6, 1808 it was officially changed from Middletown to Addison in honor of Joseph Addison, the English author.
A part of Troupsburg was taken off in 1808, Cameron (and what is now Thurston, ) in 1822; a part of Woodhull in 1828; a part of Rathbone in 1856, and Tuscarora in 1859. It lays upon the south border of the county, just east of the center.
The surface is mostly a hilly upland, broken by the valley of the Canisteo and its branches. The principal valley is about 1 1-2 miles wide and is bordered by steep hillsides 300 to 400 feet high. The principal streams are Canisteo River, and the Tuscarora, Elks Lick, and Goodhue Creeks. Goodhue Lake, covering an area of about 50 acres, lays in the northwest corner of the town. The soil is principally a clay loam, with strips of gravel and alluvium upon the streams. Addison village is situated on the Canisteo River.
The first settlement was made by Samuel Rice, in 1791. The first church (M. E.) was orga- nized in 1827 at East Hill. Among the first set- tlers were Elisha Gilbert, Samuel and Reuben Searls, John and Isaac Martin, William Wom- bough, William B. Jones, Israel Chauncey, Jesse Rowley, Amos Carr, and Amos Towsley. The first birth was that of Stephen Rice ; the first mar- riage, that of Brown Gillespie and Miss Gilbert; and the first death, that of James Martin.
A sawmill was built by George Goodhue in 1793, and William Wombough built a sawmill in 1805, and the first grist mill in 1806. The first store was kept by Samuel Smith, and the first inn by Reuben Searles.
At a town meeting in April, 1797 it was vot- ed that the barnyard of Reuben Searles be main- tained as a town "pound." (A place for impound- ing stray cattle, sheep, pigs, etc.) It was also voted that a lawful fence be 4 1-2 feet high and about 5 inches between rails. It was also voted that a ferry be kept where the road crosses the river, and that 3 pence be charged for a man to cross.
In 1797 history records that in the town of Addison there were 3 school commissioners. The
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first school house was erected as early as 1796. In 1800 a bridge across the Canisteo River was under construction.
Early industries were 1 tannery, 2 sash, door and blind factories, 1 furniture factory, 1 plowhandle factory, 3 steam saw mills, 1 grist and flouring mill, 1 foundry and machine shop, 1 boot and shoe factory, 3 wagon shops and 2 blacksmith shops. A mile and one-half east of the village a lime kiln was operated.
A company was organized in 1850 to build a plank road 12 miles long, between Elkland, Pa., and Addison, N. Y. at a cost of $20,000. A toll gate was at the south end of Tuscarora Street.
The census report of 1855 gives Addison as containing 3 churches, a bank, several mills and manufacturing establishments, and also many business places. Population was about 1,300. South Addison contained 18 dwellings and Addi- son Hill was a post office.
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Henry Wombough, Rufus Baldwin, Joel D. Gillet, Elihu Whittenhall, Erastus Brooks. Seymour, William H. Gray, Bradley Blakeslee,
William Bradley, James Baldwin, William R. Smith and Arthur Erwin purchased 4 acres of land north of the village of Addison as a site for an Academy, in December, 1847 and the next summer built an Academy at an expense of about $3,600. This school continued until it was de- stroyed by fire in October, 1856. The next aca- demic school was in a brick dwelling house now occupied by the Methodist Church as a parson- age.
Union Free School District No. 1 was orga- nized in March, 1868. establishing and maintain- ing an academic department. The new Addison High School building was erected in 1927 at a cost of $275,000. Today, Addison has a very fine modernly equipped high school building, main- taining the high quality of education which it has for years enjoyed.
The faculty today numbers 20 and the regis- tration of pupils is about 500. The school has an athletic instructor, basketball and baseball teams. They have a large auditorium, capacity of 800: they also have an equipped gymnasium and an athletic field of 5 to 8 acres. The curriculum fur- nishes a business course, vocational agriculture, and vocational homemaking.
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In 1800 the sole occupants of what is now Avoca and Cohocton were Indians. Avoca was probably named from Tom Moore's poem, "Sweet Vale of Avoca". It was called Buchanan by the early settlers, from Michael Buchanan or the "Eight Mile Tree", eight miles from Bath.
Avoca was formed from Bath, Cohocton, Howard and Wheeler on April 12, 1843. It is an interior town laying northwest from the center of the county.
The declivities of the hills are steep and their summits are about 400 feet above the river. The surface is mostly a broken upland divided into two ridges by the valley of the Conhocton River. The streams are Conhocton River and its tributaries, Twelve Mile and Ten Mile Creeks from the north, and Goff, Castle and Neils Creeks from the southwest. The valley of the river is about one and one-quarter miles wide. The soil is a clayey and gravelly loam.
Avoca Village, situated in the valley of the Conhocton, is a station of the Rochester Division of the Erie R. R. and also the D. L. & W. R. R. In 1859 it contained two churches, an iron foun- dry and a flouring mill. Population was 301. The first settlement in the township was made in 1800 by Michael Buchanan, James Moore, Joel Collier, Asa Phillips, James McWhorter and Fin- ley McClure. Eleazer Tucker built the first saw- mill. Jonathan Tilton, the first grist-mill in 1825. Joel Collier kept the first inn in Avoca in 1808, and Alonzo Simmons the first store in Avoca.
Wallace is a station on the Rochester Divi- sion of the Erie R. R. There was in early days a lime kiln and brick yard at Wallace. In early times there was a tannery on the east bank of the Conhocton River west of the village of Avoca. A little south of the tannery was a cider mill and south of that at the end of Main Street was a sawmill and shingle mill and a grist-mill. In the southeastern part of the town was a cheese fac- tory.
The first school was taught by Ann Parker in a house.
Before 1808 there had been a path, or a road cut through to Naples from Bath.
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in the town of Bath but later were set off with the new town of Avoca.
There were only two teams of horses owned in this town before 1812. They were owned by Michael Buchanan and James McWhorter, all other teams being oxen.
In the year 1817 or 1818 Henry Smith bought a log cabin on the east bank of the Conhocton River back of what is now "The Antlers". Later, he bought a house across the road from "The Antlers". This was operated as a hotel to accommodate travelers going west. He was a raftsman and pilot on the river boats. Colonel William Neily was another raftsman and lumberman.
At the intersection of the highway No. 70 and the federal road No. 15 up the Conhocton Valley is located "The Antlers," there was a toll gate in pioneer days.
Avoca had a Wheel Company, (now one of the largest potato storage plants in the East). There was formerly located in Avoca the Noxon Broom Company and the Morris Potato Grader Company.
Avoca has Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist and Presbyterian Churches. The Christian denomi- nation was the earliest to hold services in the town, at the barn on the Buchanan farm, later the log schoolhouse served as the "Meeting house" until the first Methodist Church was or- ganized at East Hill. The church is now located in the village.
The Baptist Church was organized January 13, 1847. Their first meetings were held at the schoolhouse and at the homes of the society until 1852.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church was or- ganized April 9, 1842.
In 1818 there were two schools in the town. In 1843 there were 11 school districts. In 1865 the number of pupils to attend school in the town were 633. The amount of expenditures was $1,365.37.
Avoca Central Rural School
The first school in the village of Avoca was opened in 1796 or 1797. It is said the teacher, Ann Parker, went from house to house. A frame
two-room school building was erected in 1818 on the site now occupied by the Griswold Jewelry Store.
In 1870 the increased attendance required larger accommodations and a new and larger building was erected, and in 1885 the school be- came a Union Free School with a faculty of three teachers and a registration of some 120 pupils. In 1901 it became a full high school.
With the organization in July, 1937 of the Avoca Central Rural School the faculty today numbers 28, and the registration numbers 550. The present school building is an imposing monu- inent to the educational facilities of the institu- tion.
It is modernly equipped and presided over by an efficient corps of instructors. The audi- torium and gymnasium are combined, with a seating capacity of 800.
Instruction in music and athletics is pro- vided.
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BATH
April 15, 1793, Charles Cameron and a party of pioneer woodsmen landed from their flat boats and made a camp near where the Dela- ware, Lackawanna and Western R. R. station now stands in the village of Bath. This was the advance guard of civilization in an uninhabited and comparatively unknown region, and the ad- venturers themselves were sent hither at the direction of Charles Williamson, (land agent) the representative of a syndicate of capitalists whose only aim was personal gain. Yet Charles Williamson was vested with extraordinary au- thority and powers, and lavishly did he expend his principals' money in improving and develop- ing the country in which he afterward lived for several years.
The ground was cleared and rustic cabins built, in which to shelter the settlers, who pro- ceeded to erect a log building on the south side of Pulteney Square, large enough to accommodate Captain Williamson's family and transact his official business. On the north side of Morris Street, about twenty rods west of the square, they erected a log structure for John Metcalf's hos- telry. James Henderson, the mill-wright, sought a mill site on the Conhocton river. This site is now occupied by John Baker's flour mill. James Henderson with his crew began building a saw- mill to furnish boards for floors, doors and roof for the new land office, hotel and other struc- tures being put up. It was the first sawmill in the town, and was completed the 25th of August, 1793.
Captain Williamson reached Bath very soon after the arrival of Cameron and companions, who came from Northumberland, Pennsylvania, by water and brought supplies and provisions for both subsistence and the founding of a settle- ment. At that time, we are told, this region was a vast, dense forest, inhabited only by wild ani- mals and a few scattered fragments of the once powerful Seneca Indians. The latter had signed away their domain to the Phelps and Gorham proprietary, and through a series of transfers the land had come into the ownership of the Pulteney associates, whose agent William- son was and under whose direction there was
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