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
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
Designed for a local school’s rowing my and athletic program, the Cascadilla Boathouse is the oldest structure in Stewart Park, with construction beginning in 1894. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 and is . . . — — Map (db m296340) 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
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
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
Nearby was the "East Ithaca"
Railroad Depot that served
Cornell & East Hill between
1876 and 1935, and which
gave this area its name.
— — Map (db m266323) 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
Grist, Saw, Woolen, Plaster & Gunpowder Mills, Foundry & Furniture Factory once tapped Fall Creek waterpower here in Forest Home.
Town of Ithaca 1996 — — Map (db m219915) 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 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
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
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
Built as part of Renwick Park’s pavilion construction complex, this building has lived many lives - as a dance pavilion, a bath house, and most notably, a silent movie studio. Designed in 1894 by local architecture from helmed by Clinton L. . . . — — Map (db m296838) 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
Sent out by First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca in 1834 in response to search of Nez Perce Indians for White Man's Book from Heaven was under leadership of Rev. Samuel Parker. With him went Samuel Allis of Ithaca and Rev. John Dunbar of Auburn . . . — — Map (db m104639) 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
On any given summer day at the turn of the century, the view from the Picnic Pavilion was of steamboats on Cayuga Lake, couples strolling, children playing, musicians performing in the bandshell a few yards away, a water tower and a small zoo.
. . . — — Map (db m296461) 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
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
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)
Established in 1921, Stewart Park is Ithaca’s first public waterfront park. Many of its buildings remain from the trolley destination Renwick Park that opened in 1894. Over the years, individuals, families, and groups have come steadily to this . . . — — Map (db m296837) HM
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
Cayuga Preventorium est. 1914 at Esty Point for children exposed to tuberculosis. Moved here 1939, closed 1944. Became Nature Center 1975. — — Map (db m224472) HM
Iroquois name for Six Mile Creek. Derived from distance to Cascadilla Creek from place where warriors path to Owego forded Six Mile Creek. — — Map (db m220252) HM
In 1847 Isaac Teeter bought 112 acres of military lot 78. His descendants continue to farm this & other portions of lot 78 & adjacent lot 77. — — Map (db m224460) HM
In April 1789
on four hundred acres of the
old maize lands of the Iroquois
The Three Pioneers
Jacob Yaple • Isaac Dumond • Peter Hinepaw
from Kingston NY cast seed and in
September 1789 brought their families
twenty souls built . . . — — Map (db m104706) HM
Created April 17, 1817
Named for
Daniel D. Tompkins
Born 1774, Died 1825. Served New York State as Member of Constitutional Convention and Assemby 1801; Judge of Supreme Court 1804-7; Governor 1807-1817; Chancellor of University of State . . . — — Map (db m104634) HM
In Memory of Civil War Veterans
Tompkins County, New York
Units from Tompkins County
Infantry Regiments
19th • 23rd • 32 Co. D • 64 Co. E
109th • 137th • 143 Co. D • 179th
Cavalry
15th • 21st • DeWitt Guard
Artillery
3rd Battery . . . — — Map (db m104587) WM
Tompkins County Remembers
John C. Smith, Jr. • USS Liberty 1967
Patrick L. Griffin, Jr. • Iraq 2003
Christopher D. Bordoni • Afghanistan 2012 — — Map (db m104591) WM
Hollis J. Adams • Robert B. Andrews
Michael J. Barra • Charles J. Fedorka
Richard L. Henderson • Merle A. Hess
Clarence F. Hile • Harrison C. Jacobs
Bruce W. Mack • George J. Maguire
Leo W. Maguire • Charles R. Niemi
Luigi J. Rapone . . . — — Map (db m104589) WM
Domingo I. Aguilar • Charles Adams
Charles Boyer • Fred Carpenter
Gary Elia • David N. Fox
Terrence C. Graves • Paul J. Greenwood Jr.
Charles Hamilton • Carl E. Janowsky Jr.
Richard A. Miller • Donald Penney
Karl F. Perry • Charles K. . . . — — Map (db m104592) WM
Hanford M. Armstrong • Arthur E. Bouton
Rylan E. Brillhart • Robert L. Burchfield
Lorenzo D. Burgess • William R. Bush
John B. Carey • Delmar D. Carpenter
Frank E. Carrington • John R. Chadwick
Ira Van O. Clark • Michael F. Conway . . . — — Map (db m104585) WM
AKA Chloe Wofford, 1931-2019.
M.A. Cornell University 1955.
Nobel Prize in Literature
1993, Presidential Medal of
Freedom 2012. Lived here. — — Map (db m294117) HM
Formed March 15, 1821 from portions of Town of Ulysses. Nathan Herrick 1st Supervisor; Isaac Beers 1st Clerk. Original size 31 sq. miles. — — Map (db m104630) HM
In the 1700’s the Tutelo settled Inlet Valley under protection of the Cayuga Nation. The 1779 Sullivan raid drove them into Canada. — — Map (db m225541) HM
An ice giant, tipped on its side
• Uranus has a rocky core, a mantle of water ice, ammonia ice, and methane ice, and a gaseous outer envelope of hydrogen, helium and a bit of methane gas, giving it a blue tint.
• Winds on Uranus can reach . . . — — Map (db m104669) HM
This historic park is Ithaca’s most popular waterfront destination with around half a million visitors each year. Stewart Park’s natural beauty, scenic views, diverse amenities and accessibility appeal to people of all ages, races, economic . . . — — Map (db m296909) HM
From 1915-1920, the Wharton Studio was abuzz as filmmakers and entrepreneurs Theodore and Leopold Wharton produced hundreds of silent films and series starring some of the best known actors of the day. The Wharton brothers were pioneers in an . . . — — Map (db m296218) HM
