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Name of Individual: Dwight Bishop Specialty: General Farming Clock System House Number: 10-0-Q Community: Brookton Current Street Address: 354 Brooktondale Rd Post Office/Rural Delivery Route: Brookton RD 24 Telephone: 

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 13, 2024 23:49

“Clock System” Rural Index Caroline Township, 1920, Ithaca, N.Y.: American Rural Index Corporation Eastern Division, 1920. HistoryForge transcripti...

Dwight W Bishop
Etta Bishop

Far Horizons 630 Highland Road Year Built: 1930 Architect: J. Lakin Baldridge Style: Tudor Revival "After William Geer retired from B. F. Goodrich in 1925, the family left its Free English Manorial style home in Akron. In 1929 the Geers moved to ...

Submitted by Caroline Arms on February 19, 2025 19:01

• Far Horizons, 630 Highland Road, from Village of Cayuga Heights History Project [https://www.cayugaheightshistory.org/630-highland-rd.html]

630 Highland Rd Ithaca

Leary Cornelius, 65 N Albany St

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 02, 2024 00:03

Year built 1890

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 02, 2025 14:49

Tompkins County Department of Assessment

121 Farm St Ithaca

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)

"Burns Road was originally Bush Road, but it was renamed for Mr. Thomas “Tommy” Burns who emigrated from England to Canada and then Caroline in the late 1800s. His son, “Tom” Burns, married Gladys Crispell, and was well known in the area for his f...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on January 02, 2025 20:08

Barbara Kone, "Town of Caroline," in Carol Kammen, ed. Place Names of Tompkins County, Ithaca, NY: Office of the Tompkins County Historian, 2004. 19.

177 Burns Rd Caroline

Psi Upsilon House

Submitted by Eve Snyder on May 01, 2025 20:59

Manning’s Ithaca Directory, January 1951 H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

2 Forest Park Ln Ithaca

Jarvis, Young & Co., carriage makers, Seneca cor. Brindley. (Joseph A. Jarvis, George E. Young & Edgar Spaulding)

Submitted by Eve Snyder on January 25, 2025 17:26

Lant’s Directory of Ithaca and Owego, 1867-68 H. G. Smith & Co., Lancaster, PA

Old 195 W Seneca St Ithaca

George E Young
Edgar L Spaulding
Joseph A Jarvis

“Purchase of property at 319 W. State St. by the Economy Motor Sales, was announced today by Herman C. Smith, manager and one of the proprietors. The concern was formerly located at 110 W Green St., and for the last 3 years the business has been o...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 03, 2025 03:01

“Motor Company Buys Property,” Ithaca Journal, October 24, 1944, 3.

321 W State St Ithaca (as of 2000) 319 W State St Ithaca (as of 1945)

"Educated in the Ithaca schools, Mr. Pritchard was graduated from Cornell University in 1912. He served as lieutenant in the Transportation Corps of the Army in France during World War I. After the war he joined the staff of his father's garage an...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on November 01, 2024 19:17

"L.C. Pritchard, Automobile Dealer, Dies," Ithaca Journal, September 15, 1950, 5.

Leon C Pritchard

Name of Individual or Firm: Alfred J. Hall Spouse/Family Relation: Elizabeth # of Children Under 21: 2 Business or Occupation: 2 Chief Crop or Specialty:   Property: Owned 41 acres Rural Delivery Route/Post Office: Brookton RD 24  1914 AA Road Des...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 10, 2024 23:45

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

Alfred J Hall

The Cyclery, N Hanford, propr., bicycles and supplies, 5 Clinton Block, N Cayuga St Fowler Bicycle Agency, N Hanford, agt 5 Clinton Block  Union Bicycle Agency, N Hanford, agt 5 Clinton Block

Submitted by Eve Snyder on January 13, 2025 18:26

Year built 1873

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 02, 2025 15:03

Tompkins County Department of Assessment

208 Farm St Ithaca (as of 1899) 40 Farm St Ithaca

35 East Ave, home of Professor Lucien Wait, was removed to 1The Circle in 1904 to make room to build Rockefeller Hall.

Submitted by Eve Snyder on February 17, 2025 00:43

“Contracts Awarded,” Cornell Daily Sun, April 12, 1904, 1; “New Street To Be Called ‘The Circle,” Cornell Daily Sun, October 13, 1904, 1.

1 The Circle Ithaca
35 East Ave Ithaca

"The new hotel at the Inlet is to be called 'Lehigh Valley House'. The lessees, J.H. Prager & Son, took possession yesterday, but the formal opening will not occur until next week." 

Submitted by Eve Snyder on March 19, 2025 15:33

"Town Talk," Ithaca Daily Journal, March 7, 1879, p4  http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83031157/1879-03-07/ed-1/seq-4/

801 W Buffalo St Ithaca (as of 1899) cor Buffalo and Westport St Ithaca

Year built 1880

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 02, 2025 14:50

Year built 1860

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 02, 2025 14:48

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

Anselmo Simoncini, gun filer, home 407 E Railroad Ave

Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 11, 2025 20:06

Norton & Goodhue’s Ithaca City Directory for 1909 Norton Printing Co, Ithaca, NY

Anselmo Simoncini
Mary Simoncini
Fred Simoncini
Louise Simoncini
Mary Simoncini

Bus Terminal Lunch

Submitted by Eve Snyder on March 30, 2025 17:23

Manning’s Ithaca Directory, January 1929 H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

114 E Green St Ithaca