On Nunda-Dansville Rd (New York State Route 436), on the right when traveling west.
Settled 1819 by Luther Bisbee
Born 1762 - Died 1856
Soldier in the American
Revolution from Massachusetts
Site 1st house 1 mile south — — Map (db m152683) HM
On Elizabeth Street just north of Ossian Street, on the right when traveling south.
Given to Clara Barton, Chapter No. 1 of the American National Red Cross, in memory of Emma Hartman Noyes, a charter member of this chapter, by her children Nicholas H. Noyes, Jansen Noyes, and Katherine E. Noyes, December 28, 1949. — — Map (db m198737) HM
On Ossian Street (New York State Route 36) at Spruce Street, on the left when traveling west on Ossian Street.
(front)
From
Fort Sumpter
to
Appomattox
G.A.R.
(right)
1861
Let us have Peace
Grant
1865
Fraternity
(rear)
With malice
towards none,
with charity
for all.
Lincoln . . . — — Map (db m75797) WM
On Clara Barton Street (New York State Route 36) 0.1 miles south of Washington Street, on the left when traveling south.
[center]
Dansville Honors Its Veterans of All Wars. In the glory of their youth, we shall remember them.
[left]
Dansville Area Honors Its Heroes. In loving tribute and grateful appreciation to all Dansville area military men and . . . — — Map (db m76052) WM
Revolutionary War veteran
Nathaniel Porter buried 1797.
Some early residents
still interred here after
headstones removed in 19th c. — — Map (db m133064) HM
On Geiger Rd, 0.3 miles north of McCurdy Road (County Route 49), on the left when traveling north.
Elias H. Geiger
1819-1895. Built this home
in 1871. Orphaned at age 7.
Became a carpenter, farmer,
owner of steam sawmills
and large tracts of land. — — Map (db m151739) HM
On New York State Route 436, 0.6 miles east of Shaw Rd, on the right when traveling east.
of Luther Bisbee II and his
wife, Eliza West. Descendants
of Thomas Besbidge and
Francis West, freemen of
Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts
1637-1670 — — Map (db m158649) HM
Indian cabin
nearby is the site of the
last cabin in this town,
occupied by the Senecas,
before their removal to the
Buffalo reservation, 1826 — — Map (db m100019) HM
On Poag’s Hole Road, on the left when traveling north.
Ossian District 2 est. here
ca. 1824. Closed ca. 1933.
Gordon Wilson, trustee,
ca. 1928-1932. Later chaired
County Board of Supervisors. — — Map (db m132678) HM
On Nunda-Dansville Rd (New York State Route 436), on the right when traveling west.
Route of New York and Erie
telegraph line constructed
in 1848, under the
supervision of Ezra Cornell
founder of Cornell University — — Map (db m152690) HM
