On Main Street (New York State Route 96) east of Bank Street, on the left when traveling east.
First "church" organized in Candor 1808.
Incorporated as the Farmington Society.
Meetings held in homes as early as 1796.
Current building cornerstone placed 1867. — — Map (db m256452) HM
On Main Street (New York State Route 96) west of Stowell Avenue, on the left when traveling east.
Site of
Candor Free Academy
built 1868, under NYS Union Free Law;
Academy burned 1909; rebuilt & opened 1910
as Candor High School-grades 1-12;
centralized 1936: elementary school added 1955. — — Map (db m256449) HM
On Main Street at Park Drive ( Route 96), on the right when traveling east on Main Street.
Original site of Tucker's Store, 1897;
Deeded to Candor Grange #1466 in 1925;
Candor Grange organized 1874 as "203;
Reorganized 1907 as "1111, & #1466 in 1920;
Deeded to Candor Historical Society April 18, 2016 — — Map (db m256326) HM
On Church Street near Owego Road ( Route 96B), on the right when traveling west.
Organized 1852; Incorporated 1855
Land donated by Hiram Allen Building dedicated January 4, 1857
Named Allen Memorial Baptist Church 1934
Steeple damaged 1896; Repaired 2002 — — Map (db m242344) HM
On Owego Road (New York State Route 96B), on the right when traveling west.
Built 1809 by Capt. Able Hart as a halfway house. Used as a public inn & religious mtg. place. 1811 1st town mtg. & 1913 1st common school mtg. Bought by F & A Masons #411 in 1951. — — Map (db m242341) HM
On Owego Road (New York State Route 96B), on the right when traveling north.
In the military forces of the USA in war and peace to defend and preserve our freedom and in loving memory of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice — — Map (db m242342) WM
On Main Street (New York State Route 96) east of Water Street, on the left when traveling east.
Site of early-1800s Locey Woolen Mill.
Site of late-1800s Barager Blanket
Factory.
Site of 1923 Candor Shoe factory.
Historic dam was removed in 2005. — — Map (db m256314) HM
On Owego Road (New York State Route 96), on the left when traveling north.
Organized 1827; Incorporated 1831
Land given by Daniel Hart
Named for Bishop Wm. McKendree
Present church built 1867
Pipe organ 1902; Educ. wing 1977 — — Map (db m242345) HM
On Main Street (New York State Route 96) just west of Maiden Lane, on the left when traveling west.
Organized 1832, church completed 1837. Bell tower removed & placed at ground level 1944. Houses an 1867 John G. Marklove organ, purchased in 1920’s -- placed on Organ Historical Society Record in 1975 — — Map (db m242343) HM
Considered one of the ‘best water privileges’ in Tioga County. Site of a tannery and sawmill complex & the original site of Jesse & Ogden Smith’s 1834 brick gristmill — — Map (db m266776) HM
On Rock Street east of N Main Street ( Route 38), on the left when traveling east.
A handmade U.S. Flag made on direction of Newark Valley native, Sgt. Roland Noble, 260th Inf., 65th Div., 3rd U.S. Army, first flown at Linz, Austria 8 May 1945. Believed by Gen. “Blood and Guts” George S. Patton, commanding U.S., 3rd Army, to be . . . — — Map (db m220126) HM
On Main Street (New York State Route 38) 0.2 miles south of Tappan Road, on the right when traveling south.
Built CA 1796 by Asa Bement on Boston Purchase Lot 177. Asa’s blacksmith shop, saw mill and gristmill helped the town to develop. — — Map (db m178777) HM
On Fairfield Road at Lower Fairfield Road, on the right when traveling south on Fairfield Road.
Incorporated as Methodist Episcopal Church of Lower Fairfield, 1900
Land deeded by Alfred & Mary Dennis
Building dedicated, 1901
Ladies Aid Society formed, 1900. — — Map (db m141737) HM
On South Main Street (New York State Route 38), on the right when traveling south.
Hope Cemetery & Mausoleum
1820 1928
Have Been Placed On The
National Register
Of Historic Places
By The United States
Department Of The Interior — — Map (db m297151) HM
On South Main Street (New York State Route 38) north of Silk Street, on the left when traveling north.
Maple Tree
By tradition on this
site was a blazed
maple tree in 1786
spared when an indian trail
was widened into wagon road.
Town of Newark Valley — — Map (db m141713) HM
On Park Street at Rock Street, on the right when traveling north on Park Street.
The Newark Valley
Municipal Building
Has Been Placed On The
National Register
Of Historic Places
By The United States
Department Of The Interior
Erected 1887 — — Map (db m297260) HM
On Back West Creek Road near West Creek Road when traveling north.
Pleasant Valley Church formed as W. Owego Creek Baptist Church & Soc. 1802 Wm. Lawrence & Abram Blackman donated land, 1842 present church built, 1842
Sold to: Churches of Christ in Christian Union,1966 — — Map (db m218555) HM
”The Tappan - Spaulding
Memorial Library
Has Been Placed On The
National Register
Of Historic Places
By The United States
Department Of The Interior
Erected In 1908 — — Map (db m297258) HM
On New York State Route 38 0.5 miles Wade Hollow Rd, on the left when traveling north.
Wade Farm
Purchased 1833 by Lewis Wade,
1791-1862, musician War of 1812.
Owned and worked successively
By Lewis Wade, William Wade
Edgar O. Wade, Floyd E. Wade.
State Education
Department 1938 — — Map (db m141742) HM
On Front Street (New York State Route 17C) at Court Street ( Route 96), on the right when traveling east on Front Street.
1849 Great Fire
Site of Hall of Sons of
Temperance where fire began.
Three stores left standing
104 buildings were burned
exclusive of barns — — Map (db m141773) HM
On Front Street (New York State Route 17C) at Church Street, on the right when traveling west on Front Street.
Built 1852, torn down 1959. Site where Thomas "Boss" Platt conducted state and national Republican affairs late 19th to 20th century — — Map (db m220168) HM
On Main Street at Court Street, on the right when traveling east on Main Street.
Erected August 26, 1914
This fountain honors past
Fire Chief George H. Baker,
Killed in a 1913 accident
and all Owego Firefighters. — — Map (db m152781) HM
On Main Street (New York State Route 96) at Central Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Main Street.
Owego Hose Teams, Inc. thanks the generous sponsors and donors who contributed to the fountain restoration, the businesses that partnered with us on the fountain restoration work, and the many volunteers who came forward to make the fountain . . . — — Map (db m262436) HM
On the Southern Tier Expressway (New York State Route 15), on the right when traveling west.
[Historical info excerpts]
Fun Facts
• The Chesepeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States
• The 64,000 square mile watershed includes portions of
NY, PA, WV, VA, DC, DE, MD
• The watershed begins in . . . — — Map (db m239909) HM
On Prospect Street west of Mountain Road, on the left when traveling west.
Evergreen Cemetery
Established 1851
Village of Owego
Placed on State and
National Registers
of Historical Places 2002
Preserve America Grant 2009 — — Map (db m248286) HM
On Front Street near Court Street ( Route 96), on the left when traveling west.
One of the most sought after fish in the early 1800’s was the shad. The river had plenty of them. They swam up from the Chesapeake Bay all the way to Owego and beyond. As the river changed, and dams were put in and removed, and river craft and . . . — — Map (db m141837) HM
On Main Street north of Paige Street, on the left when traveling north.
Former Home of
Stephen B. Leonard 1793-1876
Member 24th and 26th Congress
1835 - 1837 1839 - 1841
Editor and publisher of the
Owego Gazette 1814 - 1835 — — Map (db m262482) HM
On Front Street at Parkers Lane, on the right when traveling west on Front Street.
Father and son
John M. Parker 1805-1873
Justice Supreme Court 1859-1873
Charles E. Parker 1836-1909
Justice Supreme Court 1887-1907 — — Map (db m141808) HM
On Front Street (New York State Route 17C) 0.1 miles west of Paige Street, on the right when traveling west.
Female seminary 1843-1865. Belva A. Lockwood principal 1863-1865, National Equal Rights Party candidate for U S President 1884 and 1888 — — Map (db m141767) HM
Home of Elizabeth Brown Chatfield,
suffragist and secretary to
Susan B. Anthony, who stayed
here March 28 1894
while on speaking tour. — — Map (db m132759) HM
On Court Street north of Front Street, on the right when traveling north.
In December of 1991, excavation of the elevator shaft for the new court annex uncovered a human skeleton. Archaeologists from Binghamton University removed the remains at the request of the Iroquois. On 1 July 1994, Paul Waterman, chief of the . . . — — Map (db m262438) HM
On Main Street (New York State Route 96) at North Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Main Street.
Leahy Saddlemire Building
(old jail building)
Dedicated to
William P. Leahy
County Highway Superintendent September 1, 1934 - November 30, 1972
Carl Saddlemire
County Treasurer, January 1, 1958 - December 31, 1987, Clerk of . . . — — Map (db m262440) HM
On Front Street (New York State Route 17C) at Church Street, on the left when traveling west on Front Street.
Jesse McQuigg made the following statement in 1851 when he witnessed Native Americans passing from the headwaters of the Susquehanna River at Otsego Lake on their way to Tioga Point, Chenango Point or Cayuga Lake around 1790 when he was just a boy. . . . — — Map (db m141839) HM
On Front Street (New York State Route 17C) at Church Street, on the left on Front Street.
On the Site of Owego
Aug. 19-20, 1779 encamped 3000
Continental soldiers the union of
General Clinton's army
which had advanced from Otsego Lake
with a convoy of 208 Bateaux
and a detachment under
General Poor
from
General . . . — — Map (db m141830) HM
On Front Street (New York State Route 17C) at Church Street, on the left when traveling west on Front Street.
Welcome to Owego and the Susquehanna River. The Susquehanna is a long name for a long river. From
its start at Otsego Lake, near Cooperstown, New York, it meanders 444 miles from New York through Pennsylvania, arriving at Havre de Grace, Maryland, . . . — — Map (db m141831) HM
On Front Street (New York State Route 17C) at Church Street, on the left when traveling west on Front Street.
Owego was the site of the Iroquois Indian village "Owagea" destroyed by American forces under Generals James Clinton and John Sullivan in 1779, during the Revolutionary War. The Susquehanna River played an important part in the history of Owego. The . . . — — Map (db m141832) HM
On Front Street at Court Street ( Route 96), on the left when traveling west on Front Street.
An expedition against the hostile Indian nations which checked the aggressions of English and Indians on the frontiers of New York and Pennsylvania, extending westward the dominion of the United States.
Rear Face:
Through the . . . — — Map (db m141825) HM
On North Avenue, on the left when traveling north.
Second class harp tank, #182 built by Amoskeag Mfg. Co. Purchased by village 1866 for $4,500 and maintained by Ahwaga Steam Company 6. — — Map (db m294686) HM
On Front Street at Court Street ( Route 96), on the left when traveling west on Front Street.
Steamboats were a common sight in this part of the Susquehanna in the
19th century. The first one to ply the Owego section in the spring of 1826 for several weeks was the "Cadorus,” built in 1825 at York Haven, Pennsylvania.
That seems . . . — — Map (db m141838) HM
On Front Street west of Court Street ( Route 96), on the left when traveling west.
Prior to the early 19th century, it seems that the easiest and most common way to get across the Susquehanna River was simply to walk through the shallow water. It was easy to find locations where fording was possible with water from bank to bank . . . — — Map (db m141834) HM
On Court Street Bridge (New York State Route 96) at Southside Drive ( Route 96), on the right when traveling north on Court Street Bridge.
Toll bridge of 1826, swept away by flood of 1867. Trestle bridge of 1868, purchased by village, 1881. Steel bridge erected 1893. — — Map (db m268206) HM
On Southside Drive at Montrose Avenue, on the left when traveling south on Southside Drive.
In 1822 the shortest route from Owego to New York via Montrose, Dundaff, Milford, Newton, Morristown, Newark numerous hills & tollgates — — Map (db m266777) HM
On Front Street at Parkers Lane, on the left when traveling west on Front Street.
Welcome to Owego
The Village of Owego affords all the pleasures of small-town life to its visitors and locals alike. Situated on the banks of the picturesque Susquehanna River, Owego has scenic natural views from the Court Street Bridge and . . . — — Map (db m141853) HM
On North Main Street near Liberty Street ( Route 34), on the right when traveling south.
To the honor and glory of the soldiers of the revolution, buried in Spencer, N.Y.
Rev. Asa Cummings · Rev. Michael Burdge · Daniel Brooks · Lieut. John English · Richard Ferris · Samuel Giles · John Jones · Uriah Jacobs · Nathan Martin · Rev. . . . — — Map (db m242335) WM
On Moore Street east of Pine Street, on the left when traveling east.
This War Cannon Memorial
is to honor the former
G.A.R. Post 461--Colonel Walter C. Hull
along with the recognition
and loving memory
of All War Veterans who on
land, air and sea upheld the honor
and integrity of our country and . . . — — Map (db m154081) WM
On Moore Street east of Pine Street, on the left when traveling east.
Glenwood Cemetery and Mausoleum has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016 by the United States Department of [the] Interior — — Map (db m154078) HM
On New York State Route 17C 0.2 miles north of Old Barton Road, on the right when traveling east.
Maughantowano,
where in spring of 1779
encamped Sawyer and Cowley,
American soldiers,
with four Indian captors
en route to British lines. — — Map (db m260248) HM
On Chemung Street 0.1 miles west of Tracy Road, on the right when traveling east.
An expedition against the hostile Indian nations which checked the aggressions of English and Indians on the frontiers of New York and Pennsylvania, extending westward the dominion of the United States. — — Map (db m150085) HM
On Pennsylvania Avenue at Park Place, on the right when traveling south on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Michael John Chamberlain
"Chambie"
1950 — 1970
W.H.S. Class of 1968
Chambie grew up on Heath Rd
in Ellistown, where he enjoyed
hunting and automobiles.
He was a lineman on the
football team, and was truly . . . — — Map (db m154089) HM WM
On Pennsylvania Avenue at Park Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Pennsylvania Avenue.
This native boulder
is erected to the
memory of the
Soldier and Sailor
dead of our community.
They nobly served
to safeguard
and transmit to
posterity our
country's principles
of justice, freedom
and democracy.
1776 • 1812 . . . — — Map (db m154087) WM
On Willseyville Road (County Route 304) north of Hands Hill Road, on the right.
Est. 1837-building erected 1840
Joined the Organization of
Baptist Churches 1843
Land given by Hon. Jacob Willsey
for whom the village was named. — — Map (db m203237) HM
