Morris, New York

Click on the link below to view a page of The Oneonta Daily star with an article about Christian Klindt approaching 100 years old.

Click below to read The Morris Chronicle from April 29, 1908 for a description of Morris in 1847 by H.S. Matteson.

Danish farmers found upstate New York land prices favorable in the second decade of the 1900's. They even brought their own pastor. Read the articles in The Morris Chronicle from 1912 and 1914.

How many people would consider spending 4 weeks swimming down the Susquehanna River a good use for the their summer vacation?

During the summer of 1966 Russell H. Chaffee thought it was the perfect thing to do.

You can read about his successful swim in the attached page of the July 14, 1966 Otsego Farmer newspaper from Cooperstown, NY.

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This was the top of the front page of The Daily Star of Oneonta, NY on March 2, 1982, the day after fire destroyed the foundry in Morris, NY.

You can view pdfs of the full front page and page 3 with more photos by clicking on the links below.

Some other views of the foundry property can be seen using the links below the PDFs. These buildings were used to manufacture Linn tractors from approximately 1916-1937.