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The following full history of the Town of Caroline, from the pen of a valued correspondent, we gladly transfer to our columns.1.
The town of Caroline occupies the southeast corner of the county of Tompkins, and alphabetically heads the list of its nine towns. It is bounded on the north by Dryden, (originally township No. 23 of the Military Tract), east and south by Richford, Berkshire, and Candor in Tioga county, and west by Danby. The general surface is hilly and upland, broken into long, gentle ridges of arable land admitting of cultivation from the valleys to the hill-tops, which frequently attain an altitude four or five hundred feet.
When: Saturday, March 25, 12:00-4:00 pm
Where: Brooktondale Firehall, 786 Valley Road
What: Potluck lunch and pop-up museum
Who: The event is open to the community
In March of 1823, Caroline left Tioga Count to find a new home in Tompkins County. Join us to celebrate all who have found a home in Caroline, its rural neighborhoods, and its hamlets (Brooktondale, Caroline, Caroline Center, Besemer, Slaterville Springs, Speedsville)!
What to bring:
Meaningful Object Registration: If you are bringing an item to display, please complete the Meaningful Object Registration Form so that we can reserve table space for you. (Pre-registration is strongly preferred, but we will accept on-site registration the day of the event.) Doors open at 11:30 am to start setting up. Please plan to bring the object back home with you when you leave the event.
No longer live in Caroline but want to contribute to this pop-up museum? You can mail us your items or photos of your items. We’ll keep items that have been mailed safe and mail them back to you after the event. If you choose this option, please do complete the Meaningful Object Registration Form and make a note in the comments about your plans.
Contact: Sarah Michelle; sarahs1476@gmail.com
Hosted by the Caroline History Association
Mark your calendar for the next meeting of the Caroline History Association: February 4, 2023, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. All are welcome! Location TBA.
Ithaca Daily Journal, August 20, 1904, p. 6
SLATERVILLE RESORTERS MISTAKE HIM FOR A SAVAGE.
Claims to be A Now Arrival from Gormany Who Had Lost His Way While Walking from the Sea To Villace In Pennsylvania.
The finding of a half starved foreigner in the wood near Slaterville Springs, who had lost his way and because be could not speak English had been unable to make people understand that he needed food, caused quite a sensation among the fashionable summer people in that village yesterday,
Although New York established the town of Caroline in 1811, its boundaries did not take their current form until 1887. ...continue reading "The Shape of Caroline"
Susan Elizabeth Linn Sage (1819–1885) was the wife of Henry W. Sage. Her genealogy and a few biographical facts have has been laid out in a previous post about the Linn family. She was first cousin to Frances Peters, wife of James Richard Speed of Slaterville, who was the son of Dr. Joseph Speed, an early settler of the town.
...continue reading "Fatal Runaway Accident"
I have been spent many an hour recently swimming in the great sea of genealogy at Ancestry. For much of that time I was exploring the roots and branches of the descendants of Dr. Joseph Speed, a prominent early settler of Caroline. Henry Linn Speed was the son of James Richard Speed (1815–1864) of Slaterville and Frances Peters of Philadelphia (1818–1901). (James was the son of Dr. Speed.) When I read in his obituary that he was the great nephew of Mrs. Simeon De Witt, I decided to find the details of this connection.
Our next meeting will occur on Saturday, January 2, at 10:00 AM, in the South Room of the Old Brooktondale Fire Hall.
Back in June I read an article in the New York Review of Books about the infamous Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. The article mentioned Robert Goodloe Harper, who supported the act on the grounds that “freedom of the press did not allow ‘sedition and licentiousness’”.
This name tripped a switch in my memory. Before going into that, I’d like to report a bit about Harper, who was prominent in his day, but has now been almost totally forgotten, as is the fate of most prominent people.
...continue reading "The Goodloe Harpers of Slaterville"