The Press., 1922-11-16
stafford. East Side. i'm 1856.

Stafford. East Side, i'm 1856.
 The eastern half Of the town, from the time of settlement has been more populous than the western. The popu lation of the whole town of Stafford, by the U. S. census of 1850, was 2940. The Holland county map of 1857, gives roads, but no district lines. The pres ent school districts are Stafford Springs, Stafford Hollow, Stafford Street, Staffordville, Rockwell Hill, and Leonard, on the east side, and West Stafford, Crystal Lake, Crow Hill. and Orcuttville, on the West. There was a considerable community and school in the northeastern part of Stafford. east of Leonard district. On the road nearest Union, running nearly north and south, beginning at the north lived Andrews, F. Smith, F. s. Belcher, N. w. Belcher, T. Cutler South of Cutters the road met cross road running in a general east ana west direction; at the east lived J. Stewart; farther west, B. Rood and O Chaffee, and J. Rood. On a road northward from E. ROods lived A.
 lawrence, M. Heck, and M. Perry, near the schoolhOuse; farther north, w. ii. Reed and T. Bradway; west or last road another road ran southwest erly from R. MoultOn's and $. MouI- toms, past T. Gales. Here was cross road toward the school, on Whlcn lived J. Clark. South of Gales the main road forked, and in the fork lived J. DilWOrth. On the east forK, owned the Spaulding heirs. In. the neighbOrhOOd sOuthwestWard, toward Staffordville, lived T. FOskit, l.. Col burn, Nathan Agard, B. A. Converse, B. Hall, D. Scripture. On branch west, lived s. Ladoyt; on another west branch H. Alden and A. Alden. Near Staffordville, B. Agard, A. Ferry, E. Ferry, and J. Ferry; some distance east of the latter, toward Union, lived D. E. Holmes. Staffordville, north side: Foundry and Machine shop; Howe & Co.,; George R. Washburn, MT. Thompson, w. Smith; in the cen tral part, Staffordville Mills, J. Hyde, E. G. Hyde and store; Sidney Smith, Schoolhouse, A. H. Perry, D. Foskit, l.. w. Ferry, Tim FOskit, R. V. An drews, J. Pinney, l.. Faulkner w. Cha pin, L. Crawford, Dr. s. F. POmeroy, B. A. Converse, F. M. Eager, J. M. Chaffee, Hope Co.'S Mills, Wm. Colburn, M. Johnson, and J. l.. Young. East ward lived l.. s. Goodell and O. P. Plympton. Near Hydeville only L. Bugbee and M. Fenton are given. From Staffordville to the Street, over a mile, no houses given. At the north J. H. Bolton, John Y. Adams, A. Bar
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 Grant and store, and Rev. T. M. Eaton on the west side of the Street; J. Genny (Jenny), Qn the sos, George Adams place); Henry F. Bottom, Avery Davis, Chester Scripture, Schoolhouse, A. Holmes; after an in- terval, E. Converse, w. Winter, H. Kilburn; another interval to Col. Eos
 ter's at the south end of the Street. l.. Winter on west side. nearly OppO- site Foster, and Dea. Gould a little north G. H. Baker, E. WOlcott, A. Heald, and MT. Sibley, around the corner on Springs road. On the road south from the Street but about half mile on, lived A. D. West and w. West On the Rockwell Hill road F. Marcy, schOolhOuse, Park Rockwell, Dan and Ben Rockwell; a mile south, MT. Hall, On a north and south road farther east, near Roaring Brook, was J. Fisk Brooks and his sawmill; far ther north, P. Cleveland; above and on the road toward Union, William Orcutt: s. Page not far off East of Roaring Brook, in Brooks neighbor- hood, lived Nathan Morse and a Bat tey; sOutheastward was Works school house. Taking next the east central part of Stafford, down the lower val ley of Furnace Brook, from the Leon ard neighborhoOd near State Line, we find first Dea. Leonard; sOuthward, M. Leonard, V, Leonard, T. H. Thrash CT, s. Clark, L. Blodgett, J. Brown, and on a road eastward, M. Ward; sOuthward from Brown lived George Dale, J. Howe, H. Smith, E. Smith, T. Russell, H. Ledoyt, B. Howe, w. Glad ding, H. COlburn, George Buckland, s. Stone, and after a considerable house. less stretch of road, Furnace Hollow, then thriving village, and the official town seat. On the north side, A. c. COrpe and his machine shop; J. COrpe, W, Adams, B. H. Hyde, 2nd, and his Factory; P. G, Cady, Univer- salist church, Rev. c. V. Riddle, J. H. Bolton, E. Fairman, pea. Clark, l.. BardWell, Baptist church, Rev. F. L. Bachelder, s. B. Dwight, R. B. Stroud, A. Harvey Charles Holt, H. Kinney, Valley Co.'S Mill, D. B. Fairman, Supt In the central part of the village, A. Colburn, SchOOlhOuse, M. B. Harvey, Mfr; J. Brown, E. Ellithorpe, F. John son, A. Alden, M R. West, Esq, hotel, P. L. Clemmons, Town Hail, Asa Wiley Esq, c. Kingsley, G. H. Pinney, Eagle Furnace; H. Wilson, c. Wiley MT Daniels, Dr. Barber, G. M. Puffer, R. R. Blodgett, A. H. McPherson and his harness shop. On the west road toward Orcuttville, lived E. Edson, s. VintOn, M. Hyde, and Mrs. Hyde. Down the Brook toward the Springs was M. BlOdgett, and the COnverseville Co.'S Mill and hOnses. Down the east HOl- low road etWeen the Springs and the Street lived s. F. Needham At the Springs, which was then smaller than the Hollow or Staffordville, on the present East Main street from east, westward lived William Smith, l.. w. Crane, s. Newton, J. Kingsley, J. Ba- ker, R. c. Pinney, G. M. Ives On WestfOrd Avenue was Benj. F. Taylor and the schOOlhOuse. On the present Furnace Avenue were the Granite Mills and factory houses and little north B. w. Patten. South of Main street was the Bank; and farther House, west of it the Iron Spring and farther west the Sulpher Spring, as now. Along Main street stood the Congregational church on the west side of present square and R. R. Sta tiOn. Westward, McGregory, J: Spell man the butcher, R. Gardner, l.. G. Cushman, J. K. Lord, carpenter Lewis Parkess and his store, E. Ellithorpe On West Main St., Schoolhouse, D. Parkess heirs, N. Parkess heirs, Meth Odist church, Farley Converse. Far ther north, the cemetery w. R. Da- wis; and at the crossing of Orcuttville road TOurlo1Otfo Aopooo RH;551o