Identifier: historyofoswegoc01john (find matches)
Title: ... History of Oswego County, New York
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Johnson, Crisfield
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Publisher: Philadelphia, L.H. Everts & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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his wayfrom the outlying forest on to Oak hill, gazed for an in-stant at the little village below, and then darted back to hisleafy retreats. In the night, at salmon time, jack-lights,composed of blazing pine knots held in the prows of skiffs,went flashing up and down the river, giving a picturesquetouch to the usual humdrum of village life. But the boardof trustees did not appreciate the picturcsipie, and either forfear of fire, or because the blazing knots disturbed thesleepy citizens, the villiige fathers brought down the cx-tingni.shing hand of jH)Wor upon the jack-lights. Theyenacted that none should be used below Loo (Oneida)street, and that above that point none should be broughtwithin three rods of a dwelling. The beach on the river and lake north of Aries (Schuy-ler) street was set apart as a public fishing-ground, but wasfree only for the hook and spear; no one could draw seineor nit there without jiermission from the board of trustees,wiio )iut the privilege up at auction.
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HISTORY OF OSWEGO COUNTY, NEW YORK. 149 Even before the completion of the AVclland canal, itsanticipated benefits were so great that a new hotel, erectedin 1829, on Gemini (Cajuga) street, between First andSecond, was called the Welland House. For a long timethis was the grand hotel of the village, where all distin-guished strangers .stopped, where all conventions were held,and where everybody met everybody else. In 1830 the Welland canal was opened, and the .sameyear saw an upward movement of the long-dormant millingbusiness. Two mills with six run of stone each were built:one by Henry Fitzhugh and one by Gerrit Smith and Rich-ard L. De Zeng. Messrs. Smith and Fitzhugh, who werebrotliers-in-law, both became largely interested in Oswegoproperty ; the latter remaining till liis death one of theleading citizens of the place, and Mr. Smith, though not aresident, always manifesting a deep interest in its welfare. By the census of the last-named year the population ofthe village was about

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