Historical Wyoming County September 1949 - Old Fulton History

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September 19^9 Page 12 istonc 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 / /? "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.
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