Historical Wyoming County September 1949 - Old Fulton History

September ^19.^9,.
30, are exquisite examples, patterned
in facade,belfry and spire
after designs by Sir Christopher
\ren for London Churches.
The Portageville Universalist
Church, built in l8q.l, remains
unique in that it has the. original
furnishings and its continued
preservation should be a matter
of vital concern to those who
prize fine New England-type interiors.
Among other churches foind
to retain much of their original
interior line were the Salem's
Evangelical £e Reformed Church,
Bennington Center;the 1GI4J4.»Corlesville
Universalist Church, now
the IOOF Hall; the Strykersville
Baptist Church; dating from 1339;
the Hermitage brick Baptist Church
1O7I; St. Paul's Evangelical C;
Reformed Church, Attica, XO6I4.;
the Kendall district Methodist
Church, Covington, 1832; and Portageville
' s l3l|2 Baptist Church.
Seme fine specimens of stone
and cobblestone buildings remain.
Among those photographed were the
A. 3. u'elkor stone house,Bennington,
cl3i(_0i the old Emerick tannery
in Humphrey's Hollow,Sheldon;
the Elijah Smith cut-stone house
west of Java Village, erected 18-
5o-58; the l839> cut-stone store
at tike, known as the "Bargain
Store"; the "hard head" stone
dwelling, bearing date of 1835,on
the Gulf Road, north of Wyoming;
the Edward Coefield house,west of
Pearl Creek, town of Covington,
built cl8l9, and said to be constructed
of stones picked up on
the farm, all of which were put
urcrey cont
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thorough a ring for sizing,a task
which took six years to complete.
Hearer to Pearl Creek is the Dean
Ewell cobblestone dwelling, bearing
the date "l3'pO i! on the lintel
above the front doorway; there is
the Charles Fisher cobblestone
house, Covington,northwest of La-
Grange; the Lawrence Hurst house,
the former Butler home, east of
Peoria Road, Perry; a portion of
t lie Robeson Cutlery C omp any' s
factory in Perry,rebuilt in 1830,
following a fire,by cilery Hicks;
the 1827 Beaumont house, Castile;
"Taberlea" on the Middle Reservation
Road, Castile,erected in 13-
1)1}.; the William Hamilton house,
West Perry, put up in 1837 by one
Bacon of bluestone quarried nearby;
and the famed IO46 Larsaw
Cobblestone School House,on South
Main, now the Masonic Temple.
Noteworthy is the famous
Cowlesville Covered Bridge, Spanning
Cayuga Creek at the Potter
Road, Bennington, the last structure
of its kind in all western
New York. Certainly, the most
important public building, historically
speaking,is the Middlebury
Academy, Wyoming, erected in
1817, and now in the process of
being renovated by the Middlobury
Historical Society. Two other
brick school houses of interest,
both in Attica, are the Creek
School, Attica No. 9, put U P in
1852, and the old Water Street
School, dating from 1820. At
Perry Center, now a portion of
Kelly's garage, is a wing of the
Perry Center Instit\ite, which
opened in 1339,while Wethersfield