Morris, New York

Rene Elliott shared these photos and wrote:

Videos made by Alex Wing while canoeing on the Butternut Creek.

Screenshot above is looking downstream from the Frog Harbor put in at the Vale St. end of Mill St. Alex paddled down stream beyond the mouth of Coye Brook then turned around before the remains of the dam and went up the Butternut to the gas line crossing. This is all in the first video.

Frog Harbor along Vale St. aka Otsego County Route 8. Stunning clarity, stillness and reflections in the creek.
http://ourtownnews.info/morris-ny/sites/default/files/100_0529.MP4

Collected documents for
Louis Sheldon PARSONS
1879–1955

See attached documents below.

Links to some of the work put out by Trautmann, Bailey, & Blampey

https://apps.carleton.edu/campus/library/now/exhibits/govdocs/friendsorf...

https://apps.carleton.edu/campus/library/now/exhibits/govdocs/friendsorf...

Madison Observer, Madison, NY
Saturday, February 3, 1855.

GREAT STORM AND DAMAGE.
—New Lisbon Centre. Otsego county,

Jan. 22d.[1855]

Our place was visited during the latter part of last night and
early this morning with a most terrific gale of
wind. The storm during the night was severe,
but about 5 o'clock this morning it burst
forth in maddening fury from the southwest,
taking the fences and orchard of Simeon Bundy
and scattering them in every direction, together

A used but never posted real photograph postcard of Benjamin's Dam, Morris, N. Y. This dam went across the Butternut Creek just above the Elm Grove Rd, also known as Otsego County Route 49. If you look closely you can see a house behind the log stranded behind the dam. A detail of the larger image is provided to help you pick it our. Who once lived there?

This 1907 card was discussed quite a while ago on Morris NY- Smalltown, USA.

Margaretanne Connors said it looks like "The sweetest photo that ever was. how nice of you to remember me. How I wish I could drop in to see all the babies. You must be my friend . _____ her on my table where she can be seen. Love to all. Gracie W."