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"The construction of a hangar for the Thomas Brothers' Aeroplane Company on the shore of the lake on the industrial track is now well under way. The hangar itself will be a steel and frame building, 50 by 50, containing room for several machines. ...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 28, 2024 18:18

“Thomas Hangar Well Underway,” Ithaca Journal, June 18, 1915, 3.

120 Brindley St Ithaca
801 Taughannock Blvd Ithaca

Name of Individual: Bert Babcock Compass System Address: 4N Caroline Cen 10R Current Address: Canaan Rd Post Office/Rural Delivery Route: Brooktondale Farm Type/Residence: General Farm Owned or Rented: Owned

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 28, 2024 00:54

Tompkins County, N.Y. Rural Index & "Compass System" Map, Ithaca, N.Y.: Rural Directories, Inc., 1937; HistoryForge transcription Digitized version...

Burt J Babcock

Year built 1880

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 02, 2025 14:21

Name of Individual: WA Arsenault Compass System Address: 7SE Ithaca 15X Current Address: Middaugh Rd Post Office/Rural Delivery Route: Brooktondale Farm Type/Residence: General and Dairy Farm Owned or Rented: Rented

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 26, 2024 23:12

Tompkins County, N.Y. Rural Index & "Compass System" Map, Ithaca, N.Y.: Rural Directories, Inc., 1937; HistoryForge transcription Digitized version...

Walter A Arsenault

Name of Individual: Bradford Bailor Compass System Address: 2NE Caroline C 16G Current Address: Level Green Rd Post Office/Rural Delivery Route: Brooktondale Farm Type/Residence: General Farm Owned or Rented: Rented

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 28, 2024 01:07

Tompkins County, N.Y. Rural Index & "Compass System" Map, Ithaca, N.Y.: Rural Directories, Inc., 1937; HistoryForge transcription Digitized version...

Bradford D Bailor

Name of Individual: Robert Albertson Compass System Address: 7SE Ithaca 33D Current Address: 359 Brooktondale Rd Post Office/Rural Delivery Route: Brooktondale RD 1 Farm Type/Residence: Residence Owned or Rented: Rented

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 26, 2024 03:01

Tompkins County, N.Y. Rural Index & "Compass System" Map, Ithaca, N.Y.: Rural Directories, Inc., 1937; HistoryForge transcription Digitized version...

Robert Albertson

Name of Individual or Firm: Charles L. Ervay Spouse/Family Relation: Adelia A # of Children Under 21: 2 Business or Occupation: Carpenter Chief Crop or Specialty:   Property: Owned 8 acres Rural Delivery Route/Post Office: Brookton RD 24  1914 AA ...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 09, 2024 23:59

American Agriculturist Farm Directory of Yates, Schuyler, Tompkins and Seneca Counties New York, New York: Orange Judd Company, 1914. Transcription...

Charles L Ervay

The Ithacan, Lewis A. Clapp Proprietor Lewis A Clapp, Printer, book and job-117-119 S Tioga St

Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 19, 2024 20:29

Norton & Hanford’s Ithaca City Directory for 1899 Ithaca, NY

119 S Tioga St Ithaca (as of 1899) 11 S Tioga St Ithaca

Harry Cornell, 1894-1962

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 22, 2024 22:29

Find a Grave Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46369290/harry-cornell

Harry Cornell

Birth of Westervelt son.  The Ithaca Journal, May 26 1931, P. 16, Col. 4. in Forest Home notes. "Mrs. Walter Westervelt and infant son have returned from the Ithaca Memorial Hospital to their home here."

Submitted by Caroline Arms on July 08, 2026 14:23

• Birth of Westervelt son.  In Forest Home notes. The Ithaca Journal, May 26 1931, P. 16, Col.4. From Newspapers.com [https://www.newspapers.com/ar...

Ralph Westervelt

Note with photo of Crispell Home in 1907 identifies the photo as "Crispell Home ca. 1907, 134 Harford Rd. Slaterville Springs, NY 14881, Benson and Eliza Norris lived here from 1864 until their death. Peter and Sarah Crispell lived here from 1890-...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 19, 2024 01:02

Crispell Family Papers at the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell University, courtesy of the Caroline History Association on Fa...

134 Harford Rd Caroline

Year built 1860

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 02, 2025 14:19

115-121 Jamieson & McKinney Block 121 Jamieson & McKinney, plumbers and steam fitters

Submitted by Eve Snyder on March 28, 2025 23:23

Norton & Hanford’s Ithaca City Directory for 1899 Ithaca, NY

121 S Cayuga St Ithaca (as of 1899) 17 S Cayuga St Ithaca (as of 1898)

Clapp, Sykes & Stanyon (G.L. Clapp, J.H. Sykes & J.H. Stanyon) carriage makers, 141 and 143 W State.

Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 11, 2024 16:18

1872 Ithaca Directory

George L Clapp

Born Ellicot City, Maryland.

Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 21, 2025 00:44

Zackariah Tyler, New York, U.S., Grand Army of the Republic Records, 1866-1931, Ancestry.com

Rev Zachariah H Tyler

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

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 21, 2025 19:42

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

343 Giles St Ithaca

"Mrs. Helen Sloughter and John P. Carey of Groton were married Aug. 23 at the rectory of St. Anthony's Church by the Rev. William Hayes. They are making their home on the Carey farm, north of Groton village."

Submitted by Sarah Ross on September 29, 2025 13:12

Ithaca Journal, Sept. 4, 1941, 4.

Helen F Northrup

This house was originally built after 1812 by Henry Ackley and located at the NW corner of Seneca and Cayuga Streets. In 1874, after the death of Henry's wife, Lydia, their son-in-law, Samuel H. Winton, built a new house for his family on that sit...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on November 17, 2025 14:33

Mary Tomlan, "Fashionable house became home for women's federation," Ithaca Journal, March 31, 2012, 9A.

615 W Seneca St Ithaca (as of 1899) 147 W Seneca St Ithaca

"A new community center for the North Side of the city progressed a step toward revitalization yesterday at the meeting of the Social Service League Council when it was announced that a close friend of the League had given $5,000 to be used as the...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 07, 2024 18:32

"$5,000 Is Given For North Side Center Fund," Ithaca Journal, April 11, 1928, 8. https://ithacajournal.newspapers.com/image/254711257/?match=1&term...

206 Third St Ithaca (as of 1899) 24 Third St Ithaca (as of 1878) 27 Third St Ithaca

Abram Van Order (Van Order & Son) home 27 Third St Van Order & Son (Abram and Linn Van Order) boat yard, Inlet opposite D.L. & W. R.R. engine house

Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 06, 2024 23:16

Ithaca Directory and Tompkins County Business Directory, 1872 Ithaca Democrat Steam Print, Ithaca, NY

Linn Van Order
Abram Van Order