Morris, New York

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

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.

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

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.

A useful book published in 1896 about Sherburne, Chenango County, New York, Sherburne Illustrated. Click on the link below to download the PDF.

A photograph from page 28 of the book showing Moak's Tannery. Could those be hides stacked outside?

The handsome cover of Sherburne Illustrated.