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COCHECTON, Sullivan Co., N. Y. From New York,
131 miles; Port Jervis, 43; Buffalo, 294; Dunkirk, 329.
Settlements near, 1757. From 1S06 until coming of Krie
all travel to Susquehanna Valley near Binghamton from
Hudson River at Newburgh passed through Cochecton by
Newburgh and Cochecton turnpike and extension through
Pennsylvania. 2 churches ; district schools ; 1 hotel; bridge
across Delaware. Milk ; summer visitors.
CALLICOON, Sullivan Co., N. Y. From New York,
136 miles; from Port Jen-is, 48; Buffalo, 289; Dunkirk,
329. At mouth of Callicoon Creek. Eastern end of 40-
mile s« tion of original contract for work on Erie, 1835
(page 36, General History). Population, 600. Agricultural
and dairy. Important water station on F>ie. Station for
summer visitors. 3 churches ; 2 schools ; 2 newspapers ; 52
hotels and boarding-houses. Largely German population.
Bridge across Delaware to Wayne County, Pa.
(HANKIN'S, LONG EDDY, LORDVILLE, STOCK­
PORT, Delaware Co., N. Y. Hamlets, formerly important
centres of lumber and tanning business. Schools,
churches, hotels. Milk, bluestone ; summer visitors. Long
Eddy, also known as Basket. Laid out in 1870 for speculative
city named Douglas City. Failed. Lordville, station
for Equinunk, Pa., where the last extensive lumbering and
tanning in the valley were done. Stockport is the station for
an interesting region on the Pennsylvania side of the river,
in Preston township, Wayne Co., named for Samuel Preston,
the pioneer settler of that part of the valley. The settlement
was made in the interests of Robert Morris, the financierof
the Revolution, and other noted Pennsylvanians, who had
purchased immense tracts of wild land in that part of the
State.)
HANCOCK, Delaware Co., N. Y. From New York,
164 miles ; Port Jervis, 76 ; Susquehanna, 2S ; Buffalo, 261 ;
Creameries, and milk and bluestone ship­
and Susquehanna.
ping points.)
SUSQUEHANNA DIVISION.
SUSQUEHANNA, Pa. From New York, 192 miles; Buffalo,
233 ; Dunkirk, 26S. Population, 4,000. Settled in 1830 ;
incorporated in 1S53 ; 6 churches, 2 schools, 2 newspapers,
2 banks, 9 hotels. Terminus of the Delaware and the Susquehanna
divisions. The great Erie machine and repair
shops are located here. They were established in 1864, and
employ 1,000 hands. Agricultural and manufacturing community.
Steamboat on the Susquehanna River. Electric
lights and gravity system of water-works. Among the mountains
of northeastern Pennsylvania.
GREAT BEND, Susquehanna Co., Pa. From New-
York, 201 miles ; Dunkirk, 259 ; Buffalo, 224. Settled, 1787 ;
incorporated, 1861. Population, 1,200. Agricultural and
manufacturing. Tannery, silk mill, creamery, broom factory;
3 churches, 1 school, 1 newspaper, 3 hotels. Joseph Smith,
the Mormon prophet, was born near Great Bend. Electric
lights, firedepartment.
(KIRKWOOD, small station named for former Superintendent
James P. Kirkwood.)
BINGHAMTON, Broome Co., N. Y. From New York,
216 miles; Buffalo, 209; Dunkirk, 244. Settled in 1800; incorporated
as a city in 1867. Erie opened January 8, 1849.
Population then, 2,100. Population, 1898 40,000. Manufacturing.
Extensive cigar, shoe, wagon, and other factories;
breweries, tanneries, pulp mill, etc.; 40 churches, 19 schools,
7 newspapers, 35 hotels, 6 banks (2 savings), State Hospital
for the Insane, St. Mary's Home, Susquehanna Valley Home,
Commercial Travellers' Home (now building). Birthplace
of Major-General John C. Robinson. United States Senator
Dunkirk, 296. At junction of F^ast and West branches of Daniel S. Dickinson had his home and was buried here. Junction
Delaware, forming the main stream. Formerly great lumber
of the Chenango and Susquehanna rivers. Also on Al­
and tanning centre and gathering place of raftmen, antl home bany and Susquehanna, and Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
of heavy lumber operators and timber-land owners. Population,
railroads. The site of Binghamton was a wilderness
1S98, 1,200. Churches, schools, newspaper, 3 hotels. when certain land-holders in the Southern Tier, having obtained
Bluestone quarrying. Milk. Scranton Division of New York,
Ontario and Western Railroad crosses Delaware to main line State aid to extend the Cochecton and Great Bend
Turnpike from the latter place to Bath, N. Y., its course was
of that railroad.
laid through this part of Broome County. Leave was obtained
(HALE'S EDDY, Delaware Co., N. Y., hamlet, midway
between Hancock and Deposit.)
from the Legislature to build a toll-bridge across the
Chenango River, and its site was selected at what was known
DEPOSIT, Delaware Co., N. Y. From New York, 177 as the lower ferry. The importance of the location led
miles; Port Jervis, 89; Susquehanna, 15; Buffalo, 248; Joshua Whitney and other residents of Chenango village, two
Dunkirk, 283. Old settlement, originally known as Cookaus. miles above the present city of Binghamton, to make a clearing
Created by the lumber and tanning business. Last Erie station
for a settlement which they called Binghamton. 'Phis
in Delaware Valley. Historic as point where firstground
was broken for grading of F>ie, 1835 (" Administration James
clearing occupied much of the present business site of the
city.
Gore King," pages 36, 37). Growth due to railroad. Population,
(HOOPER and UNION, Broome Co.; and CAMPbank,
1S98, 1,800. 6 churches, 1 school, 7 newspapers, 1 VILLE, Tioga Co., N. Y., flourishing centres of agricultural
7 hotels. Large dairy interests. Extensive milk condensery.
and manufacturing communities ; in Chemung dairy region.)
Bluestone. Pearl button, malleable iron, hand-sled OWF:GO, Tioga Co., N. Y. From New York, 237 miles;
manufactories. Paul Devereaux Hospital.
Dunkirk, 223; Buffalo, 18S. Settled early in the century;
(OQUAGA, GULF SUMMIT, midway between Deposit original Indian name of region, Ah-wa-ga. Incorporated