A chicken barbecue served by meIT'!:bers of the Alfred Station Fire Company at the Community Center until all are served. The year 1807 is significant to Alfred Station because Clark Crandall, Nathan Green and Ed Green arrived in May to begin the first settlement of what is now the town of Alfred. Their agents began preliminary development of the territory in the hope of attracting settlers to move and buy land.
However, the visitor should leave with a relatively good impression of "the glory that Baker IS Bridge had". A distillery existed in 1824 on the north side of the creek near the bridge. Joshua Vincent began working for Clark Crandall in 1822. as foreman of a bucket factory.
Across the railroad on the right and across the drive to the Rose House is Rose's Grove, for many years a popular hangout of Seventh Day Baptists and others. It is 1,783 feet above sea level and the general level of the divide is 800 feet higher. Among the early settlers were Welcome Burdick, Rial Wescott, Paul Witter and Orlando Kaple.
The East Valley Cheese Factory, located near the east side of the school, was built in 1872 by Albert W.
PLEASANT VALLEY CHEESE FACTORY
The valley between Alfred Station and Andover that begins when you leave Route 21 is known as the East Valley. Pleasant Valley enters East Valley from the northeast, where its headwaters are at Hartsville Hill. The intersection of Pleasant Valley and East Valley was nicknamed Goose Pasture because geese were once grazed here.
Here was the Second Alfred Seventh Day Baptist Church, the parsonage, Goose Pasture School of Pleasant Valley Cheese Factory.
GOOSE PASTURE SCHOOL HOUSE
THE OLD PARSONAGE
HAMILTON HILL CEMETERY
EZRA POTTER HOUSE
THE OLD CHURCH BUILDING
BRICK WORKS
GUN HOUSE
AUSTIN HOUSE
Aboard this first passenger ride were many dignitaries, including President Millard Fillmore and Secretary of State Daniel Webster, who traveled most of the 446 miles in a rocking chair attached to the bed of a flat car. Webster did this to observe the beautiful intact forest of the southern tier. Tradition tells us that the people of the Baker I S bridge area had a great celebration held in the "Alfred" depot area to welcome the train and its passengers when it arrived.
In 1851 it was possible for a passenger to travel on the Erie for 3¢ per passenger mile, so a trip from Alfred to Hornell would cost about 30¢. The railway played a very important role in the economic growth of the area between 1851 and the first decades of the 1900s. Some of the businesses that benefited from the proximity of the railroad included W.
As many as seven different switches have been placed in the area for industrial use. A stage line also ran between Alfred station and Alfred for many years, accommodating travelers arriving and departing on the railway.
ERIE DEPOT
COLD STORAGE PLANT
SITE OF FORMER POST OFFICE AND BLACKSMITH SHOP
POTTER-HADSELL CARDING MILL
STILLMAN AND SHANNON CARRIAGE FACTORY
The forge was successively run by Silas' descendants and developed into a wagon factory. This was operated by Silas' great-grandson Asher Stillman and Jim Shannon in the late 1800s. After Asher's death, it became the Shannon and Allen Wagon Factory when his son-in-law Henry Allen became a partner.
PAIL FACTORY
NATHAN POTTER CARDING MILL
GREEN-SMITH HOUSE
LOG SCHOOL HOUSE
TINKER TOWN
THE HOME CHEESE FACTORY AND CREAMERY
Along Palmiter Road, just as you exit 244, on the hill on the right is one of the two earliest cemeteries, the Thatcher Cemetery. Continuing up Palmiter Road on the left, at the foot of the hill was the "Red Onion" building, once used as a sugar shack, and the start of the "Red Onion Road". The building, a red-painted shack, was once used as a local meeting place. The Red Onion Road wound its way past the Alfred Country Cemetery and climbed the hill near the George Parker farm where it joined the Sugar Hill Stage Road at the top of the hill.
Sugar Hill was the ridge area from the old Belmont Road to the Sherman Road near the Almond city limits. Many early pioneers established farms here, including Jabish O'Dell, Abel Burdick, Samuel Lanphear and "Sugar Hill Luke" Green.
LORENZO GREEN HOUSE
ALFRED RURAL CEMETERY
COMMUNITY HOUSE
BURDICK-MONROE TAVERN WORRELL HOUSE
HALSEY BURDICK HOUSE 34. BURDICK-VINCENT HOUSE
BURDICK JEWELRY SHOP
FRAME SCHOOL HOUSE
H. BURDICK
C. VINCENT
COUNTRY STORE
PARSONAGE
BURDICK SHOE SHOP AND HOME
SEVENTH DAY BAPTIST CHURCH 1857
DR. GREENE'S HOUSE
COUNTR Y STORE
SHAW HOUSE
HARRISON W. GREEN STORE
He has one as a sort now at hand, which cannot be beaten in the country, and which I think will be far surpassed. As for groceries, no one will dare to deny But what he keeps a large supply Coffee and tea of every kind You in his shop can quickly find. The ladies who go there to shop. Say a good selection he has made in calicos, Delaines and shawls Suitable for winter, spring or autumn.
Salt by the barrel or pound As good as found anywhere Kept in a shed behind the store You buy him out and he gets more. He has buffalo robes, which are good, which he will trade for hay or wood to make you rich, him I shall do. He also buys slaughtered pigs and live ones.
BABCOCK HOTEL
Mobil College Service Station opened at its current location in Tinkertown in June 1972; however, it was first located on the property now owned by Kenneth Snyder. The Little Red Hen, a restaurant owned and operated by the Stearns Poultry Farm, started in 1968 on what is part of the poultry farm's property. Gardner Body Shop is an auto body repair and finishing shop located on land once owned by George Sherman.
This place of business in Tinker-town was started by Roland Gardner, the present owner, in January. This store building was built around 1850 and some of the former storekeepers were Harry Niles, Clyde Willard and Charles Wheaton. The small store across from the church was for many years a jewelry store owned by John C.
B & C Mobil Home Sales is located on the land once owned by Ad Hall on Route 21. Drumm's Garage on Route 21 near the Almond line was started in 1965 by current owner Ralph Drumm. Sh-ar-ee Beauty Salon, started by its current owner Sherryl Allen in 1974, is part of the home once owned by Asher Stillman.
The Old Mill Inn, originally a feed mill built by Floyd Champlin in 1913, is now owned by Robert Lawrence, who purchased it in January 1976 from Mr. This factory is located on the east hill side of Alfred Station on part of what was once Isaac Burdick's farm. The company was started in the fall of 1960 on land once owned by Green Champlin on Route 21.
They do general contracting work from the office on Route 21, which was once home to. This well-known handmade pottery business is owned by Tom and Harriet SpIeth, who started it in 1971. Pine Crest Poultry Farm at Tip Top is a family business of the Robert Tomm family located on what was F.
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