updated May 25, 2003
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Mills & Manufacturing
Bartlett
French, Coverlet Weaver of Cazenovia
The
Cazenovia Paper Mill
The
Crawford Mower and Reaper Works
Hops
(their history, how to grow them, and how to process them)
Cazenovia
Book Publishers
Historical
Resources Survey of the Cazenovia Fire Department Property, 119-125 Albany
Street
(an archaeology paper with good history of the village Brick Yard Lot,
Blacksmiths, Mills, houses, etc.)
Merchants
Jabish
N.M. Hurd's Store
Dr.
Alvin Foord, Cazenovia's Patent Medicine Man
Early
Inns and Taverns of Cazenovia
The
Johnson House, Cazenovia's First Tavern
The
Madison County Hotel
Questions
about local history and some comments or answers.
I
have an old medicine bottle of "Dr. Foord's Pectoral Syrup," who was he?
What
books were published in Cazenovia?
Does
the placement of churches in Cazenovia form a witchcraft symbol?
What
is some history of the road networks in town?
What
really happened at Nichols Pond (Town of Fenner)?
What
happened to the soldiers with Walter Vrooman, captured at Canaseraga (Town
of Sullivan) in 1780?
What
Indians lived around Cazenovia Lake?
What
are some early graveyards in the Cazenovia area?
I
live on Tinsley Hill Road (Town of Nelson) - what is the history of that
area?
What
is the history of Cazenovia Lake?
What
is the source of Chittenango Creek?
What
is the etymology of the native name for Cazenovia Lake - "Owahgena"?
Miscellaneous Histories of Local Events, Places, Organizations,
Etc.
The
"Great Cazenovia Fugitive Slave Convention" August 21, 22, 1850
and its famed daguerreotype!
A
History of the Welsh Church Cemetery, by Owen Evans, April 12,
1956
A
Short Account of the New Woodstock Fire Department, 1913-1992 by
Walter F. Mann.
A
Brief History of the Erieville Fire Department by Reginal Card,
et al. (c.1996).
History
of the Willow Bank Yacht Club by Donald B. Sanford, provided by
his son, Donald P. Sanford.