The Delaware County Historical Association (where I work as the archivist for two days a week) has an extensive collection of postcards from Delaware County. I recently scanned the cards from Bovina and want to pass along some samples.
I'm looking for some help identifying this first view (mislabeled 'Bovine Valley'). From the image and caption, I suspect it's what is now County Route 6 looking towards the Bovina Center hamlet in the area of Route 28, but I'm not recognizing the house. Any ideas?
This view below is somewhat familiar, but not this particular photograph. It predates the 1920s and was taken on the hill behind what is now Tim McIntosh's house.
It's the first clear view I have found of the Seacord Hotel, which stood
where the Lil Hilson and Mark and Julie Schneider houses now stand. It
was in this hotel on October 1, 1844 that the various Anti-Rent organizations in Delaware County gathered for what was called the Delaware County Equal Rights Convention. The party nominated candidates for the
Assembly and passed two significant resolutions related to land issues in the county:
Resolved: That the Feudal tenure as it exists between Landlord and Tenant in the State of New York, is anti-democratic, opposed to the interests of an institution governed by a free and independent people.
Resolved: That the present system of land ownership as it exists at the present time, is a stigma upon the sons of our illustrious forefathers.
The hotel was demolished around 1920. Below is another copy of this image with an arrow marking the Seacord Hotel.
And finally, in the postcards at DCHA was this homemade card with a series of eight Bovina stickers showing various views. They likely date from the 1920s. Views include the now gone Scott's Bridge by McPhersons and the demolished Bovina Reformed Presbyterian Church, as well as the original Bovina Center Coop Creamery buildings.
I'm looking for some help identifying this first view (mislabeled 'Bovine Valley'). From the image and caption, I suspect it's what is now County Route 6 looking towards the Bovina Center hamlet in the area of Route 28, but I'm not recognizing the house. Any ideas?
This view below is somewhat familiar, but not this particular photograph. It predates the 1920s and was taken on the hill behind what is now Tim McIntosh's house.
Resolved: That the Feudal tenure as it exists between Landlord and Tenant in the State of New York, is anti-democratic, opposed to the interests of an institution governed by a free and independent people.
Resolved: That the present system of land ownership as it exists at the present time, is a stigma upon the sons of our illustrious forefathers.
The hotel was demolished around 1920. Below is another copy of this image with an arrow marking the Seacord Hotel.
And finally, in the postcards at DCHA was this homemade card with a series of eight Bovina stickers showing various views. They likely date from the 1920s. Views include the now gone Scott's Bridge by McPhersons and the demolished Bovina Reformed Presbyterian Church, as well as the original Bovina Center Coop Creamery buildings.
Dan Finn has suggested that the 'Up the Bovine Valley' postcard is the Clarence Burns farm. A check of a couple of later images confirms that this likely is that farm. I was a bit thrown by how much the house has changed.
ReplyDeleteEd Davidson also concurs that this is the Clarence Burns farm:
ReplyDeleteAlmost immediately I recognized the "bald hill" by the top of the hill above Dad's house on Russell Hill Road.
Comparing this location with Bing maps, I believe the photo was taken from the location on route 28 near the old Curtis home and that the house is where Frances Burns lives. The trees may hide whatever barn buildings are behind the house.
The road to Bovina[County route 6] is just this side of the tree on the far right edge of the photo and runs thence to the left this side of the house.
I don't know the camera used, but that may explain why the lay of the land looks flatter than it is.