8 Game Farm Rd Town of Dryden

Details
Address
8 Game Farm Rd Dryden (as of 1953)
X8 Town Line Rd Dryden
Year Built
1870 (ca.)
Building Type
Residence
Construction
2 story Wood structure
Annotations
1937 "Compass System" Rural Index Map Tompkins County

3E Ithaca 5S

Description
The Richard E. Reynolds Game Farm is operated by the Bureau of Wildlife in the New York State Dept, of Environment and Conservation. The game farm has been in operation since 1927.  The farm is in the Town of Dryden (Tax ID 57.-1-1) . The Tompkins County Dept. of Assessment uses the address 8 Game Farm Rd for the property.  Cornell University indicates that the address 81 Game Farm Rd is used as the 911 address for emergencies. 
 
Prior to 1953, Game Farm Rd was known as Town Line Rd; it is at the border of the Town of Ithaca with the Town of Dryden. There were no house numbers for buildings on Town Line Rd. For convenience, the synthetic house number X8 is used here.
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1937 Compass System Rural Index 

Name: Jacob Herbert Bruckner
Compass System Address: 3E Ithaca 5S
Current Road Name: Game Farm Rd (formerly Town Line Rd), corner with Stevenson Rd
Farm Type/Residence: Residence on New York State Game Farm
Owned or Rented: -- 

Tompkins County, N.Y. Rural Index & "Compass System" Map, Ithaca, N.Y.: Rural Directories, Inc., 1937. Digitized version available on NYHeritage.

1937

J Herbert Bruckner

Resident Household in 1940
NameSexAgeRelationOccupation
Jacob H BrucknerM35HeadAsst Prof in Research
Frances E BrucknerF30WifeNone
R Bruce BrucknerM6SonNone
Alan D BrucknerM3SonNone
Richard D BrucknerM1SonNone