Timeline of Events in the Town of Moriah

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Mineville • Settlement began 1810 2 1888 D&H Railroad Station & • Elementary school 1906; Lake 1829 John Freight Office built High School 1916 Richards began in Port Henry 3 • Grover Hills Housing, 1943 Champlain Cedar Point Road Witherbee • Yandon-Dillon BOCES 1970 through Newcomb • Miner’s Change House • Catholic school 1964 to meet Black 18 7 7 Lee • Witherbee Sherman Company housing 1906 • Comstock Fire Dept 1916 River Canal in • St. Michael’s Church 1912-1996 (Polish) Rome, NY House hotel 1 opened in • Memorial Hall Community Center Port Henry 1826 First 1897 1784 1763 Land Port Henry President McKenzie granted by tavern McKinley house: built King George II 1872 visited near brook at the end of 1812 School 1849 Cheever Bandstand built Frank named for the French and districts district annexed in center of Witherbee’s him Indian War 1 formed to Moriah Port Henry 2 home 1749 1769 1789 1809 1829 1849 1869 1889 1759 1779 1799 1819 1839 1859 1879 1899 Moriah Center (Millbrook) 1749 Peter 1811 1868-69 Lake • Post Office 1866 Kalm noted Robert Lewis Champlain & • Moriah Fire Dept 1937 signs of iron on granted Moriah Railroad • Fire House 1980 the lake shore 10-year ferry built 5 license 18 7 4 Lewald Moriah Corners 1824 First Opera House & • Settled 1793 blast furnace Witherbee-Sherman • Post Office 1820 built on lake Office built in Port shore • First School 1808 4 Henry Port Henry (Lewis Mills) • Furnace 1820 1887 Sherman • Post Office 1828 Free Library built • Bay State Furnace in Port Henry • Village incorporated 1869 • Fire Dept 1872, Engine House 1883 1894 Susan B. Anthony spoke to a New McKenzie City York State Woman’s • Franklin & Porter construct Suffrage Association lumber mill, 1765 meeting at Lewald • McKenzie settles 1784 4 Opera House • Cedar Point Furnace 1874 5 • Bigelow Steam Sawmill 1887-1924

Timeline of Events in the Town of Moriah

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1907 Witherbee- Sherman & Co. Office Building, Mineville & Sherman Building built 19 7 1 Republic in Moriah Corners Steel Corporation plant in Mineville 7 closed. 1910 New York State 8 accepted title for Crown Point Forts from Witherbee, 19 7 2 1922-24 Witherbee, 9 Sherman & Co. Lewald Sherman & Co. built 1941-45 Over Town opens Opera House burned in No. 1 & No. 2 furnaces 500 local men Bulwagga Bay December in Port Henry and women Campsite 8 1960 Town of 10 served in WW II Moriah Ambulance 1911 Mineville 1988 1929 Squad organized 19 7 4 Essex Renovation of Hospital opened 1998 Champlain 1943 Grover County A.R.C. Fisher Hill plant 2008 Town of Moriah Iron Center Bridge opens, Hills housing established for Moriah Shock bicentennial year. New 1917-1919 283 Moriah 1962 Town of Museum closing down development built Essex Incarceration Moriah Family Health Center men and women served Moriah schools opened in World War I the ferries 7 for miners’ families centralized Industries Facility 9 10 building built in Mineville 1910 1930 1950 1970 1990 2010 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020 1906 1945 D&H RR 1955 Brooklyn 1961 Ambulance 1992 Town of 2005 Huge rain Idlehurst rerouted along Dodgers’ pitcher, building built in Moriah Historical storm washed out Tourist Inn at lake shore, Johnny Podres, put Moriah Center and Society organized roads. State of Moriah abandoning the Town of Moriah Town of Moriah Emergency tunnel on the map Ambulance Squad declared 15 1995 Rev. Lewis 1909 LC&M 13 Auxiliary organized Francis’ estate RR Tario “Y” 2009 Steel Truss bridge switch-back and renovated for King’s Inn 11 at Crown Point deemed Whitney Street 1968 Raymond unsound and demolished overpasses built 1996 Moriah 16 “Buzz” Wright 11 Business Park awarded the dedicated in Congressional 1914-1915 Mineville 16 Medal of Champlain Barge Honor. Canal Terminal 14 Dock built

1914-1926 Arctic City produced silent 14 films locally 12

1916 13 H. Comstock Fire Dept. organized in Mineville 12 15