Morris, New York

The Grove, an estate in Morris, NY, was once owned by Francis Rotch - check out this map from 1868 - the Gate House building is represented but not labeled - map of village of Morris

To the best of my knowledge these photos were also donated by Lynn Harris. They are both undated. If you recognize anyone in the photos please tell us. Or even if you can tell us what years they were taken. The optics that causes the reflection of the window to appear in the first photo is a mystery to me also.

A kind soul allowed me to borrow the Morris Old Home Days program from 1977. I have scanned it and you can access it by clicking on the cover below.
Be patient, it may take a few minutes to load. Very few of the people named in the program are around now -- so you are calling their spirits from a great distance!

Looking at a portion of the 1912 USGS topographic map available at the link at the bottom of this page.

Use this link to view other maps in the collection. You can use the search in the top left of the screen to put in town and state - the best
fit appears above the search box -- you will often have choice of dates of map revisions to choose from.
https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer/#4/40.01/-100.06

The hand crank phones in Morris switched over to dial service in February, 1967.

As of March 1, 1914 there were 615 telephone and telegraph companies in New York state according to the following source:

Final Report of the Joint Committee of the Senate and Assembly on Telephone and Telegraph Companies (Google eBook)

New York (State). Legislature. Joint Committee to Investigate Telephone and Telegraph Companies, James A. Foley

J.B. Lyon, printers, 1915 - Telephone - 754 pages