A view of St John’s that I have never seen before. Don Gallagher wrote;
“Rochester Street in foreground. Left to right- Episcopal Church, St John’s R. Catholic Church, then Wellington (Bill) Bush home. Owasco Outlet on right side of picture. The Episcopal Church was torn down and a house built there. The Bill Bush home was torn down and a two story cement block building was erected there. This picture was probably taken in the late 1920’s or early 1930’s.”
After I wrote the above post, I ran this photo with the following in the Auburn Citizen;
And after the article ran in the paper, Lucille Hitchcock called to say that this house was moved, not torn down. It was on the corner of King and Rochester until a few years ago, when it was torn down. I then found, quite by accident, this newspaper account. (PBC August 14, 1947) This just goes to prove that you shouldn’t take everything as written in stone, even if it is written on the back of a photo.
For all you canal buffs out there, this house is sitting in what is now a parking lot that was built over the Clinton’s Ditch canal aqueduct.
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Im into the history of the former erie canal I heard that Ed and jeans market, the old erie canalbed was there at one time.i was wondering if you can send me photos of this area and the present of Tanner's dry dock? Thank you Mrs. Leonard
Photos of King St too of Port Byron NY
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