https://openvalley.org/items/browse?tags=Burleigh+Litho+Co&output=atom2024-03-28T02:26:35-07:00Omekahttps://openvalley.org/items/show/908
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var str = 'Shortsville, NY, 1892';
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var str = 'Named after the miller Theophilus Short, this small village of perhaps 800 seems to have been using this map in an aspirational way: by visualizing itself as a place to which more businesses and people would locate. The main appeal was its situation alongside Flint Creek--outlet for Canandaigua Lake--and the water power that delivered for manufacturing. The map shows a wheel works, drill factory, paper mill, planing mill. A branch of the New York Central & Hudson River Rail Road also passes through town. The panorama is looking roughly southwest.
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var str = 'Le Roy, NY, 1892';
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var str = 'Looking roughly to the east, bird's eye view shows Oatka Creek winding through town of 5,000 as of 1890--the second largest in Genesee County after Batavia. First settled in 1793, Le Roy was created in 1812 from a portion of the Caledonia land purchase; the two communities have continued to share a number of economic and familial ties.
The large number of numbered points in this relatively small town speaks to its civic spirit, an effective Burleigh sales agent, or both. Several lawyers and patent medicine manufacturers are listed as "places"; two railroads not even on the map paid the toll to be listed, as well. At this time, however, the most important player was the Le Roy Salt Works, point number fourteen located at upper left.';
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var str = 'Geneva, NY, 1893';
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var str = 'At the time of this bird's eye view, the city of Geneva was one of the most important population centers in the Finger Lakes--as indicated by the 99 different points listed on Lucien R. Burleigh's map. The Seneca village of Kanadaseaga at the northern end of Seneca Lake was located near the junction of land and water trade routes; British colonists recognized its strategic value and built a fort here that later was destroyed during the Sullivan campaign in 1779.
This map shows a diverse economy with strong emphasis upon manufacturing, an orientation that persisted well into the 20th century. Inset at lower right we see an historical view of the village as envisioned in 1836.';
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var str = 'Fairport, NY, 1885';
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var str = 'Western New York village located on the Erie Canal still shows the commercial importance of that waterway via several businesses located alongside: a planing mill, grist mill, canning factory, and a baking powder manufacturer. Two railroad lines appear, however--the dominant form of transportation by the 1880s--and eventually the village of 2,000 became better known as a suburb of Rochester and its canal a scenic pathway.
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var str = 'Caledonia School No. 5';
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var str = 'Number 5 on the Burleigh map, records for this school prior to 1892 are missing due to a major fire on Main Street that year. The structure shown by Burleigh received a west wing in 1896 and a north wing in 1904. In 1914, a new brick structure replaced the original school.
As of 1892, education in New York State was on the verge of transformation. Union Free School Districts, enabled by an 1853 law, created free schooling through the power of local taxation under the supervision of an elected school board. Union schools grew in number thereafter, eventually supplanting private academies. There were however tensions between local boards and the University of the State of New York over standards; in 1894, the Consolidated School Law gave to its Board of Regents the power of visitation and control. School No. 5 became a part of this system in 1895 (not without some local resistance), and then was reorganized as Caledonia's high school in 1898.
The principle of free schools necessitated annual reports to the public--here for the school year ending June 1896. We see salaries paid to teachers, a clerk and a janitor; charges for books, school supplies, coal for heating, and pricey "apparatus" from Bausch & Lomb--optical instruments, presumably. High school continued here until 1939, when the new Caledonia-Mumford campus opened on North Road and eventually the old building became home to the Big Springs Historical Society and Museum.';
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var str = 'Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburgh Railway station, Mumford';
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var str = 'Number 6 on the Burleigh map, the BR &P was one of four rail lines passing through the area and like the Lehigh Valley RR constructed primarily for the shipment of Pennsylvania coal--in this case, the major markets being industrial Rochester and Buffalo. Smaller towns recognized, however, the importance of railroad access and scrambled to join an 1869 venture proposed by Mumford's Oliver Allen. That railroad--the Rochester and State Line--and a subsequent incarnation eventually were incorporated into the BR&P.
Despite its much smaller size than the New York Central or Erie railroads, the BR&P survived because it was a well-run operation which, in addition to its commercial business provided transportation for many smaller towns. During the hot days of summer its excursion trains to Lake Ontario were popular; this typical announcement also mentions a Temperance Assembly held at Silver Lake. In 1892 the Mumford terminal would have been a wooden structure in the gothic style; it was rebuilt in 1912 and still stands alongside active tracks as an herb and flower nursery.';
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var str = 'Lehigh Valley Rail Road Station, Caledonia';
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var str = '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, however, the relatively small line came to depend upon moving western wheat and, eventually, passengers. Accordingly, in 1891, an “ornate station with its stained glass windows and Gothic scroll work was built by immigrant laborers” (Caledonia Advertiser 16 Mar 1972).
Beginning in 1896, the Lehigh railroad became known for its luxurious "Black Flag Express" service between Buffalo and New York: a "combined cafe, library, writing and smoking room for gentlemen"; a "ladies retiring room"; a dining car and plate-glass observation windows "to view the rapidly passing scenery" (Caledonia Advertiser 2 April 1896). For passenger service the Lehigh's heyday was the first quarter of the 20th century, after which it began a gradual decline due to competition from automobiles. The station was demolished in 1972.
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var str = 'New York State Hatchery and Fish Ponds, Caledonia NY';
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var str = '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 roof and on the side of building facing road. Printed in Germany by the American News Company, the postcard was created at the behest of John Boorman's Pharmacy for tourist purchases. ';
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var str = '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 Cornelius Vanderbilt's New York Central as its Canandaigua branch--although popularly dubbed the "Peanut Line" due to its diminutive stature in the sprawling rail empire. In 1916 a new station was built on the west side of North St., where it still is standing today.
In the cutthroat railroad business, Vanderbilt's New York Central was quite aggressive in repackaging its more functional business in freight and passenger service into new, tourism-inspired "Excursions." Here, far-flung locations like Seattle and New England beckon Caledonians along with more familiar attractions like Niagara Falls. It's difficult to judge the success of such marketing; amidst competition from automobiles and consolidation of the rail industry, the Canandaigua branch closed in 1939--and this station along with it.';
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var str = 'John Ball & Co., Produce Elevator';
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var str = 'Number 45 on the Burleigh map, the firm alongside the Erie Railroad dates to 1892 when John Ball (1855-1936) formed a partnership with his younger brother Thomas--who had been a principal in the firm of Ball & Donahue. Eventually their facility came to encompass a grain elevator, a bean dryer, a mill, and facilities for processing coal delivered by the railroad.
Beneath this skeletal history are hints of the catastrophes routinely faced by merchants in an era before modern fire-resistant architecture and alarm systems. After commencing operations in 1891, a fire in 1896 destroyed Ball's structure. It was the third major Caledonia fire in six years. The "Advertiser" sardonically recommended that the village "ought to erect a great big portable grand-stand on wheels, so that when a fire occurs the spectators might have comfortable seats" (8 Oct. 1896). Ball's losses were estimated to be at least $15,000, yet two weeks later he already was consulting with a Buffalo architect for a new and "far better" elevator (Caledonia "Advertiser" 22 Oct. 1896).
In 1910, the firm constructed a "modern concrete coal shed"--presumably more fireproof than its earlier version. These various advertisements show the company's gradual shift from agriculture to energy, from coal to oil delivery. ';
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