. Binghamton : its settlement, growth and development, and the factors in its history, 1800-1900 . rtant stations on the line of the Erie rail-road between New York and Buffalo. This ascendancy was neverafterward lost although for several years Elmira asserted a certainsupremacy over our thriving village and subsequent city. In 1858 a faithful chronicler of local history described Binghamtonas a beautiful village situated on the north bank of the Susquehannaat its junction with the Chenango river; and further remarked thatthe place then contained the State Inebriate asylum, the Binghamtonacade
. Binghamton : its settlement, growth and development, and the factors in its history, 1800-1900 . rtant stations on the line of the Erie rail-road between New York and Buffalo. This ascendancy was neverafterward lost although for several years Elmira asserted a certainsupremacy over our thriving village and subsequent city. In 1858 a faithful chronicler of local history described Binghamtonas a beautiful village situated on the north bank of the Susquehannaat its junction with the Chenango river; and further remarked thatthe place then contained the State Inebriate asylum, the Binghamtonacademy, the Susquehanna seminary, three female seminaries (Miss GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 119 Ingalls Riverside seminary, Mrs. Bartons seminary on Henry streetand Harmony Retreat seminary north of the railroad, conducted by theMisses Marsh), Lowell & Warners commercial college, two water cures(the Binghamton water cure, established in 1855 by Dr. O. V. Thayer,and the Mt. Prospect water cure under the supervision of J. U. North),nine churches, five newspaper offices and several manufactories. The. Binghamton in 1850. writer also truthfully stated that the village was on the main line ofthe Erie railroad, that it was connected with Syracuse by railroad, andwas the southwestern terminus of the Chenango canal and the Albanyand Susquehanna railroad; that it was the center of a large trade andan important point for the transhipment of coal. In 1857 there wastranshipped from the D., L. & W. railroad cars to Chenango canal boats51,700 gross tons of coal, and from these boats to the cars 25,895 tons ofOneida county iron ore. That the reader may have some knowledge of the old business factorsin Binghamton history the writer has been furnished with a copy of thefirst village directory (published in 1858 by A. L. Jones and printed byAdams & Lawyer). From this reliable source of authority it is learnedthat the merchants, manufacturers and other business men of the vil-lage in that year were as fo
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