Snap That Sign 2021: List of Pomeroy Foundation Markers & Plaques
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Snap That Sign 2021: List of Pomeroy Foundation Markers & Plaques How to use this document: • An “X” in the Close Up or Landscape columns means we need a picture of the marker in that style of photo. If the cell is blank, then we don’t need a photo for that category. • Key column codes represent marker program names as follows: NYS = New York State Historic Marker Grant Program L&L = Legends & Lore Marker Grant Program NR = National Register Signage Grant Program L&L marker NYS marker NR marker NR plaque • For GPS coordinates of any of the markers or plaques listed, please visit our interactive marker map: https://www.wgpfoundation.org/history/map/ Need Need Approved Inscription Address County Key Close Up Landscape PALATINE TRAIL ROAD USED FOR TRAVEL WEST TO SCHOHARIE VALLEY. North side of Knox Gallupville Road, AS EARLY AS 1767, THE Albany X NYS Knox TOWN OF KNOX BEGAN TO GROW AROUND THIS PATH. WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2015 PAPER MILLS 1818 EPHRAIM ANDREWS ACQUIRES CLOTH DRESSING AND County Route 111 and Water Board Rdl, WOOL CARDING MILLS. BY 1850 Albany X NYS Coeymans JOHN E. ANDREWS ESTABLISHES A STRAW PAPER MAKING MILL WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2014 FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF 405 Quail Street, Albany Albany x x NR ALBANY RAPP ROAD COMMUNITY HISTORIC DISTRICT 28 Rapp Road, Albany Albany x NR CUBA CEMETERY Medbury Ave, Cuba Allegany x x NR CANASERAGA FOUR CORNERS HISTORIC 67 Main St., Canaseraga Allegany x NR DISTRICT A HAIRY LEGEND FIRST SIGHTED AUG 18, 1926 HAIRY WOMEN OF KLIPNOCKY, ONCE YOUNG GIRLS, INHABIT 1329 County Route 13C, Canaseraga Allegany x L&L THIS FOREST, WAITING FOR THEIR PARENTS' RETURN. NEW YORK FOLKLORE SOCIETY WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2018 STURTEVANT HOUSE BUILT CA. 1871. HOME OF JAMES W. STURTEVANT, CO-FOUNDER OF PROMINENT CARRIAGE AND 47 North Street, Binghamton Broome x x NYS SLEIGH MANUFACTURER, STURTEVANT-LARRABEE COMPANY WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2019 LATOURETTE FARM HOLLOW LOGS SUPPLIED SPRING WATER TO THIS PRE-1831 HOUSE WITH GREEK REVIVAL STYLE 2000 Castle Gardens Road, Vestal Broome x NYS TRIM KNOWN LOCALLY AS COLD SPRING FARM WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2013 MERSEREAU HOUSE CA. 1832 FEDERAL FARM HOUSE OF EARLY PIONEER JOHN MERSEREAU. FARM INCLUDED A 1808 Vestal Rd., Vestal Broome x NYS SHAD FISHERY ON THE SOUTH BANK OF SUSQUEHANNA RIVER WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2013 EARLY SCHOOL THE NORTH LYNDON SCHOOL WAS BUILT CA. 1844 AND REMAINED IN USE UNTIL 1947. THE 7621 North Center Rd., Lyndon Cattaraugus x x NYS SCHOOL STILL RETAINS MANY OF ITS ORIGINAL FEATURES. WILLIAM G. FOUNDATION 2013 Need Need Approved Inscription Address County Key Close Up Landscape FRANK W. HIGGINS 1856-1907 FROM 1896-1906 SERVED AS NY GOVERNOR, LT. GOVERNOR 730 S. Union St., Olean Cattaraugus x x NYS AND STATE SENATOR. BURIED HERE. WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2019 PETER JONES 1850-1933, BELIEVED TO HAVE ESCAPED SLAVERY, LIVED AND WORKED FOR HATCH FAMILY ON 1008 Portville-Obi Road, Portville Cattaraugus x x NYS MAYVILLE FARM. BURIED AT CHESTNUT HILL CEMETERY WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2019 PLANK ROAD HOUSE BUILT CA 1856 AT JUNCTION OF ELLICOTTVILLE-GREAT VALLEY PLANK ROAD & ROAD TO 5997 Rt. 98, Great Valley Cattaraugus x NYS FRANKLIVILLE. SERVED AS HOTEL, LIVERY & POST OFFICE WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2015 OSCAR F. WILBER CIVIL WAR PRIVATE BURIED HERE DIED IN 1863 FROM WOUNDS Five Mile Cemetery, 3974 Church Road, Cattaraugus x NYS REC’D AT CHANCELLORSVILLE. Allegany SUBJECT OF WALT WHITMAN'S 1864 ESSAY "A NEW YORK SOLDIER". WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2018 CADIZ CEMETERY EARLIEST BURIAL ABIGAIL CURTIS IN 1837. REVOLUTIONARY WAR, Cadiz Road and Route 98, Franklinville Cattauragus x x NYS WAR OF 1812 AND CIVIL WAR VETERANS BURIED HERE. WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2014 1ST COURTHOUSE IN CAYUGA COUNTY, ERECTED HERE C.1795, CONSISTING OF CROTCHED POSTS AND POLES Court Street, Aurora Cayuga x x NYS COVERED WITH BRUSH, IN USE FOR SEVERAL YEARS WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION EARLY CEMETERY KNOWN AS HATHAWAY CEMETERY BURIALS FROM 1823-1903 About 3/4 miles on Hinman Road and FINAL RESTING PLACE OF Cayuga x x NYS Route 90, Summerhill PRIVATE ARCHIBOLD BOWKER KILLED IN CIVIL WAR 1864 WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2015 POSTAL SERVICE FIRST REGULAR MAIL DELIVERY WEST OF CANAJOHARIE EST. APRIL 1, 1795 Main Street, State Route 90, Village of Cayuga x x NYS IN AURORA Aurora JUDGE WOOD, POSTMASTER WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION Need Need Approved Inscription Address County Key Close Up Landscape STONE SCHOOL 1858-1944. DIST #7, THEN #6 CA. 1901. LAND PROVIDED BY CORNELIUS PETERSON. 5277 West Lake Road, Auburn Cayuga x x NYS PUPILS TRANSPORTED TO AUBURN SCHOOLS AFTER 1944. WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2019 AUBURN AIRPORT 1941-1952 BUILT BY THE FLYING FARMERS: LEMAN INGALLS, Beechtree Rd and North Division Street HUGH DARROW, RALPH BOWER, Cayuga x NYS RD, Auburn FRANK NUGENT. OFFERED LESSONS AND CHARTER FLIGHTS WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2016 EARLY CEMETERY OLD MONTEZUMA CEMETERY REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN RICHARD DAMEWOOD BURIED Route 90 North, Montezuma Cayuga x NYS HERE 1850. SERVED AT SEIGE OF BRITISH AT YORKTOWN WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2014 EARLY INDUSTRY THE FORKS OF THE CREEK WHERE LITTLE SALMON CREEK Intersection of Indian Field Rd. and MEETS BIG SALMON CREEK Cayuga x NYS Blakely Rd. Genoa LAND CULTIVATED BY CAYUGA GRIST & SAW MILLS CA.1830 THE WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2012 MENTZ CHURCH FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH INC. 1825. TRUSTEES, Mentz Church Road at McDonald Road, JOHN GILMORE, WM. BELL AND Cayuga x NYS Montezuma JAMES WESTON. ADJOINING CEMETERY IN USE BY 1813. WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2012 ONE-ROOM SCHOOL BAPTIST CORNERS OWASCO DISTRICT NO. ONE BUILT 1834 WITH LOCAL STONE 4130 Baptist Corners Road, Owasco Cayuga x NYS SERVED FOR 116 YEARS CLOSED IN 1950 THE WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2012 PROSPECT HILL PETER CLARKE BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY 1858. EARLY SETTLER PROMINENT IN SALT INDUSTRY, McDonald Road, Montezuma Cayuga x NYS ERIE CANAL AND MONTEZUMA TURNPIKE. WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2017 FIVE CORNERS SETTLED CA. 1820 AT INTERSECTION OF 4 MILITARY At the Five Corners intersection of TRACTS WITH STORES, CHURCH, Cayuga x x NYS Bartnick, Atwater, Hill Rds., Genoa POST OFFICE AND SCHOOL ON DIRECT ROUTE TO CAYUGA LAKE. WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2018 Need Need Approved Inscription Address County Key Close Up Landscape TRAIN DEPOT ON THIS SITE FROM 1907-1924 A SHORT LINE RAILROAD PROVIDED FREIGHT AND 10127 State Route 90, Genoa Cayuga x x NYS PASSENGER SERVICE FROM AUBURN TO ITHACA. WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2018 HUGH C. BEDIENT 1889-1965. FALCONER HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE WHO PLAYED BASEBALL AT THIS PARK. 1912 85 W. Mosher St., Falconer Chautauqua x x NYS WORLD SERIES CHAMPION, PITCHED FOR BOSTON RED SOX. WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2019 VINCENT M. POWERS BORN WESTFIELD 1891. WON KENTUCKY DERBY 1909. LEADING US FLAT JOCKEY 1908-1909, 2 Portage St., Westfield Chautauqua x x NYS US STEEPLECHASE RIDER 1917. LATER A NOTED TRAINER. WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2019 BROCTON ARCH Main Street, Brocton Chautauqua x NR CHEMUNG VILLAGE THE DELAWARE VILLAGE NEAR THIS SITE INCLUDED 30 TO 40 BUILDINGS AND FARM FIELDS. 1284 CR 60, Chemung Chemung x NYS BURNED BY CONTINENTAL TROOPS ON AUGUST 13, 1779. WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2019 PRATT HOUSE 413 Lake Street, Elmira Chemung x NR PITCHER SPRINGS BY 1843 A VILLAGE WITH TWO PUBLIC HOUSES, AN ACADEMY, A STORE & 30 DWELLINGS GREW Corner of Horton & Grewe Rd, Pitcher Chenango x x NYS NEAR SULPHER SPRINGS THOUGHT TO HAVE HEALING PROPERTIES WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2013 ELMER BABCOCK BORN 1854 TOWN OF PHARSALIA SERVED IN US 7TH CAVALRY 1040 County Route 8, Pharsalia Chenango x NYS DIED JUNE 25, 1876 BATTLE OF LITTLE BIGHORN WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2014 FORMER HOTEL BEAVER MEADOW HOTEL BUILT CA 1872. PROVIDED A REST STOP FOR OVERNIGHT 1519 County Route16, Beaver Meadow Chenango x NYS GUESTS PASSING THROUGH THIS AREA UNTIL CLOSING IN 1916. WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2017 UNION SCHOOL BUILT HERE IN 1899. SERVED SOUTH OTSELIC AND THE SURROUNDING AREA UNTIL 133 County Road 13, South Otselic Chenango x NYS REPLACED BY THE CENTRAL SCHOOL IN 1936. WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2017 Need Need Approved Inscription Address County Key Close Up Landscape EVERGREEN CEMETERY EST. 1849 FINAL RESTING PLACE OF VETERANS, MEMBERS 1815 Main Street, Keeseville Clinton x NYS OF U.S. CONGRESS & CITIZENS WHO WERE CRITICAL IN KEESVILLE'S HISTORY REDFORD PICNIC FIRST HELD CA. 1855 ASSUMPTION OF MARY CHURCH CAROUSEL FIRST RECORDED USE 78 Clinton Street; Redford Clinton x x NYS AUG. 15, 1925 USED ONLY ON DAY OF THE PICNIC WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2017 THE WAR OF 1812 CAPT. VAUGHAN'S MILITIA REPULSED 500 BRITISH TROOPS SEEKING TO CROSS THE SARANAC 1971 Route 22B, Plattsburg Clinton x x NYS AND ENCIRCLE AMERICAN FORTS SEPT. 7, 1814. WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2013 THE WAR OF 1812 HALSEY'S CORNER 250 AMERICAN SOLDIERS PLUS MILITIA MET 4,000 BRITISH 2 Halsey Court, Plattsburg Clinton x x NYS TROOPS IN BLOODY BATTLE HERE ON SEPT. 6, 1814 WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2013 CATHOLIC SUMMER SCHOOL OF AMERICA 1896-1941 ON THIS SITE. RESORT AND Lakeshore Drive & Valcour Blvd, EDUCATIONAL CAMPUS WITH Clinton x NYS Plattsburg COTTAGES, CHAPEL, DINING HALL, AUDITORIUM & POST OFFICE. WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2014 HATTIE LYON LIFELONG HOME 1843-1930. FIRST WOMAN TO REACH LYON MT. SUMMIT AU 11, 1876. 76 Barnham Brook Rd., Saranac Clinton x NYS MOUNTAIN NAMED FOR HER GRANDFATHER NATHANIEL LYON WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2015 JEAN ARTHUR BORN GLADYS GREENE IN PLATTSBURGH, NY ON OCT 17, 1900. STAR OF SHANE 94 Oak Street, Plattsburgh Clinton x NYS MR.