. Harper's New York and Erie rail-road guide book : containing a description of the scenery, rivers, towns, villages, and most important works on the road ; with one hundred and thirty-six engravings by Lossing and Barritt, from original sketches made expressly for this work by William Macleod . ndent of the road. In this neighborhood, on thenorth side of the road, stands an old, shabby wooden house,that may be some day looked upon with great reverence,propped up with tenderest care, and visited by troops ofpilgrims to view its hallowed timbers. It is the house inwhich was born Joe Smith, the
. Harper's New York and Erie rail-road guide book : containing a description of the scenery, rivers, towns, villages, and most important works on the road ; with one hundred and thirty-six engravings by Lossing and Barritt, from original sketches made expressly for this work by William Macleod . ndent of the road. In this neighborhood, on thenorth side of the road, stands an old, shabby wooden house,that may be some day looked upon with great reverence,propped up with tenderest care, and visited by troops ofpilgrims to view its hallowed timbers. It is the house inwhich was born Joe Smith, the Mormon prophet. Yes,that shabby tenement was Joes cradle, and may be someday the thronged Mecca to his disciples from the mightyWest. The signs of increasing cultivation and prosperityin the farms we pass are gradually mingled with the un-mistakable evidences of a large town being near. Wesee successively wagon-loads of town goods, then eleganttown vehicles containing tov^ai-dressed people, and thenelegant suburban residences, proofs of the wealth andtaste of the community we approach, and that is BiNGHAMTON (from Ncw York 216 miles, from Dunkirk245 miles). This beautiful village, the largest and fair-est community on the main line of the road we have met NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 129. since leaving New York city, is situated in a wide plain,and on an angle formed by the confluence of the Susque-hanna and the Chenango Rivers. It was named after itsoriginal settler, Mr. Bingham, an Englishman, who diedin 1804, leaving two daughters, afterward married to Al-exander Baring and his brother Henry, the famous En-glish bankers of that name, one of whom, it is well known,was afterward created Lord Ashburton. Binghamton atonce sprang into importance by its being so happily placedon two such streams, whose lumber and water-power forth-with formed the elements of its prosperity. Besides thesemills, the Chenango Canal, extending along that river 95miles to Utica, proved the next auspici
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