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- Collection: Caledonia 1892
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L.M. Place, Drugs & Pat' Medicines
Number 43 on the Burleigh map, drugstore appears to have been a short-lived venture that began sometime around 1891 and was dissolved by 1893, when Place sold his stock of patent medicines. This mention in the local newspaper dates to 1892.<br />
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Lehigh Valley Rail Road Station, Caledonia
Number 7 on the Burleigh map, an original modest structure served the needs of a railroad built primarily to deliver coal from the Pennsylvania anthracite fields, east to New York and west to Buffalo on the Great Lakes. Amidst ferocious competition,…
McDonald Bros., Bankers
Number 22 on the Burleigh map, this location housed a bank chartered by David A. and Simon W. McDonald, the latter also running an insurance business in the same building. David was primarily a miller, who during the 1880s ran the Genesee County…
McKay Bros' Grist Mill
Number 14 on the Burleigh map, mill site is one of the older landmarks in Caledonia. It was built in 1801 by Col. Charles Williamson, who was agent for Lord William Pultney concerning a massive tract of land--sold to Scottish immigrants on favorable…
New York Central Railroad Station, Caledonia
Number 8 on the Burleigh map, depot originally was located next to William Hamilton's produce business on the east side of North St. Constructed in ca. 1853 along with the Canandaigua & Niagara Falls Railroad, the line was purchased in 1858 by…
New York State Hatchery and Fish Ponds, Caledonia NY
Postcard shows the nationally recognized operation created by Seth Green in 1864 and eventually taken over as a state operation in 1875. Despite this source of funding, the hatchery still depended upon publicity--thus the sizable text both on its…
Outterson & Lee, Meat Market
Number 33 on the Burleigh map, by the time of panorama's publication Outterson & Lee's firm had been dissolved, settling all debts in April 1892. In 1878 George Outterson opened "a saloon and restaurant under Grant's meat market"; it's unclear…
Place & Foote, General Store
Number 39 on the Burleigh map, this business dated its establishment to 1817 by John McKenley. After passing through the Brown and then the Burgess families, Charles A. Place (1869-1937) and James C. Foote (1867-1939) purchased the firm in 1891.…
Planing Mill, Lumber & Coal, W.J. Williams, Prop.
Number 46 on the Burleigh map, this longstanding establishment dates from 1864 (when Williams went into business with Thomas G. Edgar) on through his sole proprietorship beginning in 1879 to his eventual sale of the firm in 1902 to DeLancey A.…
R. Pullyblank, Livery
Number 28 on the Burleigh map, just off of Main Street, the stables of Richard Nelson Pullyblank (1863-1951) date to a time when horse-drawn vehicles were the primary alternative to walking. Established in the late 1880s, his livery was praised by…