Morris, New York

Ever hear of the Oil City State Forest in Otsego County, NY? It was news to me, too, but there is such a place!

To get a better look at the map use the link below. The map was produced by the Otsego County Planning Department on January 21, 2012.

When I first looked into this I could not find any mention of a linotype in use at The Morris Chronicle, but I have since found articles in 1920 and 1922 showing that the Morris Chronicle had a linotype before the New Berlin Gazette. See the links below the text to read the articles.

B. C. Gardner, Benjamin C. Gardner

Article numbers, schools mentioned. year

#1....Buck School House, New Lisbon, 1836

#2....Butt's Corners, 1838

#3....Jacksonville (Now Mt. Vision) School 1850

#4....Wheeler District (between West Laurens and Otsdawa) 1851

#5....White School House 1842-43
......New Lisbon Centre School

#6....Buck School House
......Burlington Green School House 1846
......Burlington Flats School
......Peet Hook School

#7....Burlington Flats School

#8....West Burlington School 1847-48

Twenty photos from the collection are presented here.

Another twenty-seven are available at the link below.
http://ourtownnews.info/morris-ny/1970-Centennial-Roffe-part-2

Remember there are more photos in part 2 of this collection.

Go to bottom this page for link to the youtube video.

The Morris Historical Society and the Butternut Valley Alliance (https://butternutvalleyalliance.org/) cohosted a presentation by Tom Washbon about the history of the mills and milling in the Butternut Valley.