We are in a campground near Chenango Bridge, NY so we could drive through town looking for the Stone family homestead and other landmarks. Here is a plat of the town from years ago which shows the locations that we were searching for. Item (1) on the East side of Front Street is the homestead location and item (22) at the southeast end of Mountain View is the location of the mill site our ancestor built.
This is a picture of the homestead from many years ago.
And here are today's pictures with some major additions and renovations. The porch in the picture above has now been replaced with an addition and the current house shows definite seams where the addition was made. It started to rain just as I got out of the truck on the first picture which is a bit cloudy as a result so we drove around the block and the rain stopped so we were able to get a couple more.
Then we drove along the River Road to search for the mill site and took this picture at the end of Mountain View. There is no indication of the mill but the river is in the background behind these houses in that location.
We drove around town a bit to try and find the old depot location as Vena told us that another relative Phena Stone lived in the first house east of the depot. What we found that might have been the depot location along the RR was now a new post office where Main Street crossed the tracks.
It was good to have this time to search a bit around town. We have passed through this area several times in our past travels and just took the time on this trip to take a few photos. Tomorrow we head south again toward Baltimore and to deliver our daughter back to her kitty.
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Wonderful! I was so excited to see the pictures. We all have heard so much about this part of the country. Yes, I was happy I finally had good enough manners to get to New York once and now you have too. Thanks for bringing us up to date a bit. I didn't expect to find any evidence of the first mill but knowing the location is fun.
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