Re: (erielack) Wilseyville

[Pat_McKnight_@_nps.gov]

I think you are both right.  The name changed about 1925.

Patrick McKnight
Historian/Archivist
Steamtown NHS
570-340-5193

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In 1900, the pond wasn't even there. See:

http://historical.mytopo.com/getImage.asp?fname=dryd00sw.jpg&state=NY

The map does show a stub end spur for the DL&W and one for the LV right in
town though.

BTW Schuyler, it's Willseyville, with two L's.

Todd K. Stearns


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From: "Schuyler Larrabee" <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net>
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Subject: RE: (erielack) Wilseyville


> Thanks, Todd, I'll post the reason I asked a bit later today or tonight.
>
> But, looking (unsuccessfully) for Wilseyville on Google Earth, I came up
> with a question or two.
>
> Looking at this location:
> 42d 21' 01.34" N
> 76d 23' 46.13" W
> It appears that there is a double embankment across the pond there.  Was
> there a siding or double track there on the Ithaca branch?
>
> And (I've been accused of seeing things that don't exist before) just to
> the
> left and slightly down, across the valley, it sure looks like there was a
> long, broadly curved line diverging from the Ithaca Branch about 0.8
miles
> south of the cited spot above, curving counterclockwise around the base
of
> the hill there.
>
> Lumber spur?
>
> SGL


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