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1936 and 1937 Aerial Photographs of Otsego County


credit for photo: Courtesy of Paul R. Baumann, Department of Geography, SUNY College at Oneonta

1936 and 1937 Aerial Photographs of Otsego County
https://www.oneonta.edu/faculty/baumanpr/APTEST/Main.htm

1770 circa - early map of Morris Patent from NYS Archives

Note in the archive was:

Map of Morris Patent, between the Susquehanna and Unadilla.
Map #33
NYSA_A0273-78_33

Click on links below to view map as either TIFF or PNG -- Not all image software will open TIFF files so if in doubt use the PNG.

Found on page 2 of results from this link after searching on

MORRIS

http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Search/Index/search/

Postmasters for Morris, NY


Image shared by Rene Elliott

The information below is from the US Post Office web site -- at this link
https://webpmt.usps.gov/pmt002.cfm

report generated December 17, 2021

MORRIS POST OFFICE
OTSEGO COUNTY, NEW YORK

The Butternut Valley Telephone Company and other local telephone companies

Rene Elliott wrote:

When my great grandparents moved into the red (Former Franz Thresher, now Utter) house on North Broad just outside village limits, and had a phone installed. They would later deed it to their oldest son, Lynn, in 1912, who in turn swopped it off with Threshers for the present John Lull farm up by the old reservoir.

90 Broad St

One owner of this house was Dr. Merritt Matteson. Learn more about him at this link.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30589095/merritt-matteson

An earlier owner was W. R. B. Wing, who had a store on the corner of Broad and Main which is now Lovett's Pizzeria Pub and Grill

Burlingame Falls on Aldrich Creek in Morris, NY

These falls are at the ruin of a dam on Burlingame Rd. on the Aldrich Creek.

This detail of an 1868 map of Morris shows the two mills at the Burlingame Falls on Aldrich Creek. Tracy Burlingame ran both a saw mill and a cider using water from the dam.

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