. Better Binghamton; a report to the Mercantile-Press Club of Binghamton, N. Y., September 1911. co 12 1. The Beginnings of Binghamton. ^HERE was no Binghamton until there had beenBingham, the pioneer landowner. But before his daythe Indians had followed, by canoe and trail, the twobeautiful rivers of which the junction point is theheart of modern Binghamton. Even then the valleysof the Susquehanna and Chenango were highways,and a small Tuscarora village was at The Point. After the revolutionary war, the Oneidas and Tus-caroras (in 1785) released to the State of New Yorkthe site of the present
. Better Binghamton; a report to the Mercantile-Press Club of Binghamton, N. Y., September 1911. co 12 1. The Beginnings of Binghamton. ^HERE was no Binghamton until there had beenBingham, the pioneer landowner. But before his daythe Indians had followed, by canoe and trail, the twobeautiful rivers of which the junction point is theheart of modern Binghamton. Even then the valleysof the Susquehanna and Chenango were highways,and a small Tuscarora village was at The Point. After the revolutionary war, the Oneidas and Tus-caroras (in 1785) released to the State of New Yorkthe site of the present city; and the next year the State issued apatent to William Bingham, James Wilson and Robert L. Hooper,containing upwards of 30,000 acres lying on both sides of the Sus-quehanna, from Union to Kirkwood. Four years later, the ownersdivided their property, the eastern portion going to Bingham. William Bingham had been a successful merchant in Philadel-phia and was now a great landed proprietor. He engaged JoshuaWhitney as his agent, or factor. It was in 1800, when he was twenty-seven years old, that Whitney took charge of the pate
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