Historical Wyoming County September 1949 - Old Fulton History

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Springs preserves as a community,
hall the main building of Doolittle
Institute, founded upwards of
a century ago by Ormus and Reuben
Doolittle as a boarding school.
The boarding halls wore destroyed
by fire in 192)4. along with historic
St. Clement's Church, just
across the street. Let us also
not forget Perry's "Beehive,"
still standing at Short and Lake
streets. An original store front,
still retaining its tiny panes of
glass, was found in Cowlesville,
now Stangrovers garage on Main
Street. Java Village has the century-old
George Grist Mill, an
interesting vestige of old-time
milling.
Of historic residences and
taverns there are many. Fine
examples of Greek Revival and a
few Victorian Gothic are seen. It
is impractical to list all these
landmarks, but included in the
survey were such edifices as Danley's
Tavern, Bennington; the
Folsom House, Folsomdale;Straub's
Inn, Sheldon;the Reuben and Ormus
Doolittle houses, cl820, both at
Wethersfield Springs; the Wolcott
House, Orangeville; the Vary and
Watson-Potter houses, Varysburg;
the Pleaco House, north of Java
Five Corners; the Capron, Hunting
and Dole houses, Pike; the Lillibridge
residence, East Koy; the
Krauss,Putnam and Benedict houses
and the "Old Stage House," all in
Attica; the Seaver House, "Hillside,"
the Ferris Mansion, the
former Moses Rowe Tavern, Barlow
House, and the Wyoming Inn, all
Middlebury. In Covington is
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"Brooksholm," seat of the Brooks
family since l8l[j., the old Peoria
Tavern, and the Andrews (former
PotY'/ine) homestead, dating from
181+9.
In Perry Village stand such
fine old edifices as the Walker,
Chap in and Crocker houses; the
home of Chester A. Arthur on Elm
Street; the Bailey House on Water
Street, and out on North Center
Street, the 'Clark-Davis-Brigham
house,one of the County's 61dost,
erected in l8l6, where Mary Jemison
was wont to visit. Castile
contributed the Abraham Bradt
House, also whore the White Woman
stopped, the old Ziba Hurd house;
and the Charles VanArsdale home.
In the Ferry Center area are such
historic buildings as the Silver
Tavern, the Inn, the Dr. Jabez
Ward, Deacon Samuel Howard, and
the Sheldon homesteads.
Historic structures still
found in Warsaw include the Charles
Humphrey house (Truesdo11
House); William Webster House,
South ".arsaw; Nilos Keeney Home;
the 1822 Morris Homestead; the
Seth M. Gates House, dating from
1325, now the home of the Warsaw
Historical Society; the George
Walker residence on View Street,
probably part of the tavern erected
by Elizur vobster in 1810 or
12; the Gorould Residence, going
back before l8l6; the Augustus
Frank House, and the Elizabeth
Bishop House, put up in l3l7> by
John Hobson, Warsaw's first hatter.