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Broad St, 20

Two-story, side-gabled, frame house with two-story, gable-roofed back ell (added 1920s and expanded to current size with poured concrete foundation, 1980s) spanning part of the east wall. House retains partial returns and narrow frieze on rnain block. Regular period fenestration with two-over-two wood sash in plain casings; center entrance door has open pedimented porch (added 1940s). House recently renovated with wood shingle siding and new paint; otherwise largely intact. Built ca.1900.

Broad St, 17


Photo by Jess Ravage, included in National Historic Register Application

Broad St is one of the two primary streets forming the intersection around which the Village of Morris developed. It was incorporated into the proposed route of the Butternuts and Sherburne Turnpike running from Oneonta to New Berlin on Unadilla River, which was chartered by the state in 1 836. North of Main St, it is designated CR 1 3; south of Main St, it is NY 23.

1922 postmark RPPC Main St. Morris - looking west

Looking west on Main St. Late afternoon with long shadows on the road some awnings down and some up. Front and back of card.

1937 Saturday July 3, H. H. Linn dies in plane crash in Morris, NY


Front page of the Binghamton, NY Press on July 6, 1937.


The airstrip owned and used by H.H. Linn was on Patrick Hill. You can see the runway and hangar circled on the aerial photo above taken on May 31, 1937. To help you understand where the airstrip was located I have an aerial photograph that shows Patrick Hill from Pegg Rd. on the left to Potato Farm Rd. on the right. Click on link below for that view

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 and Cathcart Map of Hillington Patent

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.

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