Cabin built by Maria
Earsley, 1794, for home.
First Settler in Caroline.
First Trip from Roxbury N.J.
On horseback with son, John — — Map (db m76139) HM
Built 1806 of squared logs
by John James Speed.
Post Office here 1806
called Speedville.
Catskill Turnpike from Catskill to Bath, 1804 — — Map (db m76146) HM
(Upper Mill) (Excelsior Mill)
1. 1800, Cantine, North Bank
2. 1834, WM Mott, South Bank
3. 1865, CEO White, S. Bank
Burned for highway, 1964 — — Map (db m220886) HM
Erected in 1923 by the former and present residents of the Town of Caroline as a memorial in honor of the Widow Earsley as the first pioneer settler. She came on horseback into this New York wilderness, purchased one hundred acres of land, and . . . — — Map (db m104539) HM
Possible birthplace of Chief Logan (Tah-Gah-Jute)
"I appeal to white men to say if hungry I gave no meat; if cold and naked, I clothed not" — — Map (db m152065) HM
Died For Their Country
OF Co. K 167th Infantry.
Ephraim Dunham. Died Nov. 18. 1862 AE 21
Charles F. Stoddard. " Dec. 23. " " 23
Benj. Clark. " Jul. 2. 1863 " 19
Alex B. Hance. " Oct. 29. " " 26
J. Willis Hance of Co. D. " " " " " . . . — — Map (db m271143) WM
Part of Iroquoia, later included in 1794 Watkins & Flint Purchase in Tioga County; added to Tompkins County in 1823.
1817 • Tompkins County • 2017 — — Map (db m271144) HM
Grave site 175 yards west
W. Grant Egbert
concert violinist, master
teacher. Founder, Ithaca
Conservatory of Music, 1892
Since 1931 - Ithaca College — — Map (db m258188) HM
Dedicated to the pioneers
Abner Beers · Uri Clark · Jabez Beers · Isaac Dumond · Dr. Lewis Beers · Benjamin Jennings · Lewis Beardsley · Hudson Jennings · David Clark · Joseph Judson · Hezekiah Clark · John Miller · Jacob Yaple — — Map (db m271145) HM
To honor those of the Town of Dryden who served their country in the 2nd World War with the Allied Nations for world freedom.
C.E. Mead · E.A. Chaffee · E.S. Youmans · R.J. McKeon · C.A. Root · R.H. Hoose · R.W. Martin · C.L. Royce · G. . . . — — Map (db m243214) WM
Pioneer settler from Killingworth, Connecticut, in 1802
Donor of land for the village green, Presbyterian Church, and first cemetery in 1818
Served in the Revolution — — Map (db m243215) HM
Nominated by Dryden Historical Society Listed National Register, 1986 44 buildings in this quadrant and 7 additional structures — — Map (db m224332) HM
Iroquois hunting grounds, then Town #23 in military tract prior to being first settled in 1797. In 1817 became one of the first nine towns in Tompkins County. — — Map (db m201169) HM
Iroquois hunting grounds, then part of town of Ulysses, until 1821 when 36 lots became town of Enfield in Tompkins County.
1817 • Tompkins County • 2017 — — Map (db m261613) HM
1866 “Daddy” 1936
William R. George
Founder of George Junior Republic
He loved, guided and counseled youth; enriched America’s citizenship; and made permanent impress upon the education of young people in all parts of the world through . . . — — Map (db m244779) HM
Railroad crossing near here 1870 to ca. 1976 made Freeville a regional rail hub for passengers and freight. Village incorporated 1887. — — Map (db m247071) HM
As early as 1829, gristmill
est. nearby on Fall Creek.
By 1860, homes, school and
water-powered cooperage and
sawmill stood in this hamlet. — — Map (db m304944) HM
William R. George conceived of the Junior Republic here. The youthful village whose motto is “nothing without labor” was founded July 10, 1895. — — Map (db m231113) HM
Sacred To The Memory Of Those Who Fought For Our Country
The Gun Loaned By U.S.- 1 Dwight Allen Post 260
— G. A. R. —
To Ornament Cemetery Flag At Groton, NY
Post Organized March 29th, 1882
Engraved Plate Presented By
Dr. F. D. Page . . . — — Map (db m297806) WM
Gurdon Cummings and wife Abigail Pettis from Mansfield, Conn., settled here in 1810. Owned and occupied by VI generations of Cummings. — — Map (db m245052) HM
Founded by the
Congregational Church
Church once located on the NW corner
Salt Road and NYS Route 222
1st Burial 1806 Last Burial 1881 — — Map (db m297578) HM
Sanctuary pre-dates 1866
Incorporated October 16, 1896
As a Congregational Church
First Worship on November 19, 1896
“All Are Welcome Here”
The Membership, 2022 — — Map (db m299046) HM
Rededication
★ July 4, 2006 ★
“A rededication ceremony was held
on this date to commemorate the
memory of all men and women who
served our country in times of war,
and especially to those who were
wounded or died as a . . . — — Map (db m296980) WM
In Memory of These Groton Men Who
Made the Supreme Sacrifice in
World War II, Korea, and Vietnam
Terrence G. Graves Congressional Medal of Honor
Charles W. Adams • Hollis J. Adams • Morris A. Arnold • Ricardo M. Bernard • Hugh T. Brooks . . . — — Map (db m297268) WM
2d Lt. USMC-Posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for action in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam-February 16, 1968.
Terrence C. Graves, or “Terry” as his friends and family knew him, entered the . . . — — Map (db m307486) HM WM
The Memorial Carillonic Tower Bells
Are Dedicated
In Grateful Recognition of the
Sacrifice and Service of the Men and
Women From the Community of Groton
Who Served in the Armed Forces
of Our Country in World War II
by
The People . . . — — Map (db m297271) WM
Part of Iroquoia. In 1790, designated military tract town of Locke. In 1817, 50 lots named Division, transferred to Tompkins County, renamed Groton in 1818.
1817 • Tompkins • 2017 — — Map (db m245112) HM WM
Dedicated to the 26 soldiers of the 26th Regiment United States Colored Infantry who enlisted between Dec. 3, 1863 and Feb. 18, 1864 at St. James A.M.E. Zion Church, Ithaca. NY.
TO FIGHT FOR GOD AND LIBERTY
Henry W. Adams • Henry Allen • . . . — — Map (db m277871) HM WM
Fall Creek has long attracted entrepreneurs, whether for industrial, recreational or educational purposes. Over the years, a succession of dams, mills and powerhouses have been constructed to harness the water power of its various falls. . . . — — Map (db m104699) HM
For 12,000 years, Buttermilk Creek has splashed down the hill, gradually shaping its lovely glen and waterfalls in the rocks older than dinosaurs.
The water of Buttermilk Falls begins its journey six miles south of here at Jennings . . . — — Map (db m146541) HM
The layers of rock in the cliffs and the waterfall were once mud, silt and sand on the bottom of a sea that covered much of what is now New York State. Rivers eroded these sediments from the rocks of an ancient Mountain range in eastern New York and . . . — — Map (db m146543) HM
Between 1933 & 1941 men from
Civilian Conservation Corps
Company 1265 built many of
the facilities at Buttermilk
Falls & R.H. Treman St. Parks.
Town of Ithaca
1996 — — Map (db m118660) HM
Did you know you can take a boat west from Stewart Park all the way to Duluth, Minnesota? Or southeast to New York City and the Atlantic Ocean? On ancient canoes to steam ships to modern paddlecraft, people have traveled these water routes for . . . — — Map (db m296849) HM
This historic district contains many of the City's earliest surviving residential, religious and public buildings. The park - originally known as the "public square" - and its surroundings were depicted in the original Village plan prepared by . . . — — Map (db m104578) HM
Edwin Crowell Stewart
1864 - 1921
An Exemplar of Civic Duty
Mayor of Ithaca and Member of the Assembly and Senate of the State of New York. His generous gifts to the City’s Benevolent institutions and his endowment of this recreation park bear . . . — — Map (db m296385) HM
On this site lived and died
Ezra Cornell
Member of the Assembly-Senator-Philanthropist
Benefactor
of the City of Ithaca-whose citizens
rear this token in grateful appreciation . . . — — Map (db m104701) HM
Several times over the past two million years, vast Ice Age glaciers plowed south from Canada. The glaciers dug out steep-sided valleys that now hold Cayuga Lake and the other Finger Lakes. Since the most recent glacier melted away12,000 years ago, . . . — — Map (db m146542) HM
Built in 1847 as first Congregational Church of West Hill. Was known as Abolition Church for the anti-slavery advocates among its leaders. — — Map (db m225946) HM
Nearby was inclined plane that Ithaca & Owego Railroad used between 1828 and 1849 to haul passenger & freight trains up and down So. Hill. — — Map (db m219202) HM
Chartered 1828. Completed 1834. Among earliest of New York railroads. Originally horses pulled trains the 29 miles to and from Owego. — — Map (db m220884) HM
founded as the
Ithaca Conservatory of Music
September 19, 1892
Ithaca was our earliest campus,
we were at once scholars and citizens
of this town that embraced us.
Each of us they called by name and
allowed us glimmers of their . . . — — Map (db m104546) HM
Founded in 1892 as Ithaca
Conservatory of Music. Chartered
as Ithaca College in
1931. Moved from downtown
Ithaca to South Hill Campus
in early 1960's — — Map (db m258077) HM
From this site the Ithaca Conservatory of Music founded in 1892 and its successor Ithaca College chartered in 1931 operated from 1911 to 1966 — — Map (db m64513) HM
This tablet is erected on the
thirty first anniversary
of the Ithaca Conservatory
of Music in appreciation
of the vision[,] courage and
determination of the
co-laborers
W. Grant Egbert
President
George C. Williams . . . — — Map (db m104576) HM
Reuben Judd owned a water powered woolen mill here from 1832 to 1858. Other nearby industry included a lead pipe & a chair factory. — — Map (db m299207) HM
A failed star with a turbulent, rapidly-rotating atmosphere
Hurricanes much larger than Earth
• The Great Red Spot is a hurricane-like storm system that has been continuously active since its discovery by Galileo Galilei over 400 years . . . — — Map (db m104665) HM
Louis Agassiz Fuertes was a locally born, world renowned ornithologist and prolific artist, specializing in naturalistic bird portraiture on a par with John James Audubon.
Fuertes participated at n numerous scientific expeditions, drawing and . . . — — Map (db m296132) HM
One time name for this area. It parodied the constant boasting by a local farmer about his plans to move on to then Frontier Michigan. — — Map (db m271135) HM
N.Y. gave its Revolutionary War Veterans land as compensation for their service. 31 such lots comprised the original town of Ithaca. — — Map (db m243757) HM
Davenport’s Tavern-Lot 87. Here Abner Treman spent the night on his return, 1793-1794, to his claim, now the Village of Trumansburg — — Map (db m224430) HM
Humanitarian and novelist author of "The Good Earth" Awarded Nobel Prize, 1938 lived in Forest Home and Chapel parsonage, 1924-1925 — — Map (db m263166) HM
The land before you was once home to the extended family of Robert H. Treman, creator of parks and protector of green spaces throughout Tompkins County. The woodland that grew up here was inhabited for decades by diverse wildlife and more than 50 . . . — — Map (db m104695) HM
From 1900 to 1921 Remington Salt Company operated brine wells & processing plant at this location. Salt was shipped by canal & railroad. — — Map (db m244902) HM
A magnificent ring system
• Saturn is a gas giant composed mostly of hydrogen and helium. It has the lowest density of any planet in our Solar System, with about two-thirds being water.
• Saturn's rings are made of countless individually . . . — — Map (db m242340)
Began in 1833, the St. James African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is the earliest surviving church building in Ithaca. Noted to have been an important station on New York’s Underground Railroad, the Church continues to serve as a center for . . . — — Map (db m277868) HM
Church built ca. 1836. Tower &
belfry added by 1904. Visited
by F. Douglass & Harriet Tubman.
Congregation actively aided
the Underground Railroad. — — Map (db m277848) HM
The St. James African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, organized by Ithaca’s African Americans at the home of the Rev. Henry Johnson, was officially chartered in 1833. This church building was erected in 1836 on Wheat Street, now Cleveland Avenue. . . . — — Map (db m277853) HM
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