Van Natta Mills / Van Natta Dam Pumping Station

“James C. Cook to James Vannatta and others, mill property on Six Mile Creek, $3000.”

“Real Estate Transfers,” Ithaca Daily Journal, May 10, 1876, 4, https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=idj18760510-01.1.4

“The new mill owned run [sic] by the VanNatta brothers has already come into great favor, and its capacity is taxed to the utmost to supply the demand. At first it was thought that three ‘run’ of stone would be enough to do the work, but a fourth is being added thus soon, showing that the proprietors made a mistake on the right side.

The mill is built near the site of the old Cook saw mill, and is provided with one of the best water power privileges in this section of the country. A fall of fifty-eight feet revolves a turbine wheel which furnishes power equal to a fifty-four horse power engine. A two inch shafting running [sic], from the turbine wheel is capable of five hundred revolutions per minute, which gives all the speed ever necessary. The machinery is all new and first class, consisting of a Pe? ?, capable of cleaning thirty bushels? ??? col? ?ler made by Sellen and Popple that shells one hundred bushels an hour; a buckwheat huller home made, that hulls twenty-five pounds[?] of pan-cake material every sixty minutes; one of Throop’s celebrated wheat brushes, and in short, everything necessary in a first class flouring mill. Improvements will be added from time to time as the increasing business may demand, the genial millers being determined to do nothing but the best of work.”

“VanNatta Brothers’ New Mill,” Ithaca Daily Journal, May 4, 1877, 4, cols. 4-5, https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=idj18770504-01.1.4

“…the Water Works Company has purchased the Van Natta mill property…as we were advised by our engineer that it was particularly desirable for power purposes, in connection with the proposed extension of the works on East Hill. As is known, there has been a growing demand on the part of the population of East Hill, for a water supply for both fire protection and domestic purposes, and it is in view of the purpose of the company to prepare to furnish this supply when satisfactory arrangements can be made with the city, that we have acquired this property.”

“Water for East Hill: An Additional Supply For the City of Ithaca,” Ithaca Daily Journal, May 8, 1891, 3, https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=idj18910509-01.1.3

VanNatta Dam Pumping Station, 343 Giles St

H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

Van Atta Dam Pumping Station, 343 Giles St

H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

Van [N]atta Dam Pumping Station, 343 Giles St

H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

Van Natta Dam Pumping Station, 343 Giles St

H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY