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The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Station will close down and be consolidated with the Lackawanna Railroad station near the Inlet.

Submitted by Sarah Fiorello on January 24, 2025 00:52

"Everything set for railroad consolidation," Ithaca Journal; July 31, 1918

701 W Seneca St Ithaca 710 W State St Ithaca

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

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)

Year built 1880

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 02, 2025 14:44

W. H. Kellogg & Co. (William H. Kellogg), Tobacco Manufactory, Seneca corner Meadow

Submitted by Eve Snyder on March 03, 2025 21:39

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: Leslie Crispell Specialty: General Farming Clock System House Number: 2-1-Z Community: Brookton Current Street Address: 159 Central Chapel? Post Office/Rural Delivery Route: Brookton RD Telephone: Caroline

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 16, 2024 01:46

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

Leslie I Crispell

Year built 1860

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 02, 2025 14:47

Tompkins County Department of Assessment

115 Farm St Ithaca (as of 1899) 13 Farm St Ithaca

“Albert H. Platts was the second native of Ithaca who was its president. He was born where Ralph C. Christiance now resides, No. 214 N. Aurora street in 1845 and was 34 when first elected president in 1879.  …he was a traveling salesman for a whol...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on March 03, 2025 20:45

“Albert H. Platts Dies Suddenly,” Ithaca Daily Journal, March 28, 1910, 3, 5.

Albert H Platts

  "Born May 27, 1896, the son of John H. and Rachel O. Wilson at Richmond, Va.    Took private lessons from local professor in Richmond, Va studying the piano, beginning at the age of 7, and continuing until my graduation from High School at the a...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 27, 2024 17:48

 Charles O. Wilson, WPA [TERA] Oral History Biographies, V16-1-7, The History Center in Tompkins County, Ithaca, NY.

Charles Otis Wilson

Multi-Family Construction: ;  Roof of Main Structure: Non-combustible;  Additional Sections: Section 1, back (S), 2 stories, wood frame, iron clad rear wall (S), non-combustible roof, access to Main Structure of #107 E State St on 1st floor;  Porc...

Submitted by Genevieve Barbee on March 04, 2025 20:35

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, April 1910

109 E State St Ithaca (as of 1910)

“Details of the Ithaca Savings and Loan Assn’s downtown building plans were announced today by President Haines W. Cole. A two-story building of steel, concrete and glass will be erected at the northwest corner of Tioga and Buffalo Sts. on the sit...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on April 01, 2025 17:46

Elizabeth Rogers, "Savings and Loan Construction Timetable Is Set," Ithaca Journal, July 29, 1966, 9.

300 N Tioga St Ithaca (as of 1967)

Charlotte Childs and Basil Mackall married in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, 29 Dec 1824.  

Submitted by Eve Snyder on July 22, 2024 16:47

Basil Mackall in the Maryland, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1655-1850, Ancestry.com

Charlotte Mackall
Basil Mackall

“Homer Genung is the new doctor who has recently located at Freeville, and has already commenced to try his skill in alleviating the ills that flesh is heir to.”

Submitted by Eve Snyder on February 02, 2025 22:08

“Personal Mention, Dryden Herald, May 28, 1884, 1

Dr Homer Albert Genung

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

Treman, King & Co (Leonard, Lafayette L., & Elias Treman and Leander R. King) , hardware, 1 and 3 E State St

Submitted by Eve Snyder on March 11, 2025 20:42

Ithaca General and Business Directory, 1880 Norton & Conklin Publishers, Ithaca, NY

105 E State St Ithaca (as of 1899) 3 or 5 E State St Ithaca
101 E State St Ithaca (as of 1899) 1 E State St Ithaca

Goddard Charles M, machinist, 75 N Albany

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 02, 2024 20:09

"Fire of unknown origin discovered in the retail hardware store of Treman, King, & Co., at State and Cayuga streets, shortly before 5 o'clock this morning, reduced that large five-story establishment to a mass of charred walls and ruins, and exten...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on October 10, 2024 01:39

"$350,000 Fire Destroys Treman Store, Ravages Adjoining Property; Seven Families Are Made Homeless," Ithaca Journal, May 4, 1921, 5.

101-107 E State St Ithaca (as of 1940) 101-111 S Cayuga St Ithaca (as of 1940) 101-107 E State St Ithaca (as of 1922)

"Frank R. Benton, 62, for many years preparatory in the Department of Anatomy in the Cornell University Medical College, a graduate of Cornell University Law School and widely known, died suddenly in his home, 313 Willow Avenue.... Mr. Benton was ...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 05, 2024 00:21

“’Beau’ Benton Dies Suddenly At His Home,” Ithaca Journal, March 8, 1929, 5.

Frank R Benton

NYSE&G Corp, Offices

Submitted by Eve Snyder on March 30, 2025 16:09

Manning’s Ithaca Directory, March 1940 H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

108 E Green St Ithaca (as of 1939)