“1n 1823 he [C. W. E. Prescott] built the “Ithaca Brewery,” on the east side of Six-Mile Creek, below Clinton Street…. The brewery, in 1826, passed into the hands of William R. Collins and Wait T. Huntington, who were then doing a mercantile business in the store now occupied by F. W. Phillips, under the style of Collins & Huntington….From 1837 to 1844, O. H. Gregory superintended the business for the firm, and also for Mr. Huntington, who meantime became sole proprietor. Since the latter date the career of the brewery has been marked by varied fortunes under the management successively of a Mr. Root, Mr. Hawley (who was drowned), William M. Smith, and Theodore R. Sitgreaves (of Easton, Pa.), its last owner, for on the 9th of September, 1878, it was burned to the ground. Ithaca now has one less historic monument, Gambrinus one less temple “

H. B. Pierce and D Hamilton Hurd, History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler Counties, New York, Philadelphia : Everts & Ensign, 1879, 411-412, accessed April 9, 2026, https://archive.org/details/historyoftiogach00peir/mode/2up