. The story of Cooperstown . ginated thetheory that, while seasons from year to year ap-pear to differ widely in their character, the tem-perature and precipitation within the compass ofeach year actually reach the same general seemed to cause him real annoyance when aperiod of weather departed too widely from theusual average, yet if a cold snap or hot spell wasgenerous enough to break all previous records hisenthusiasm was boundless. An equally substantial though smaller housethat antedated Edgewater by a few years waserected in the summer of 1802 by John Miller asa farm house. It
. The story of Cooperstown . ginated thetheory that, while seasons from year to year ap-pear to differ widely in their character, the tem-perature and precipitation within the compass ofeach year actually reach the same general seemed to cause him real annoyance when aperiod of weather departed too widely from theusual average, yet if a cold snap or hot spell wasgenerous enough to break all previous records hisenthusiasm was boundless. An equally substantial though smaller housethat antedated Edgewater by a few years waserected in the summer of 1802 by John Miller asa farm house. It was built of bricks, and was thesecond building in the place that was not con-structed of wood. It stands at the southwestcorner of Pine Street and Lake Street, facing the SOLID SURVIVALS 221 latter, and the dense evergreen hedge which sur-rounds the house seems to hold it aloof from thelater growth of the village. It is said that thehouse is haunted, for not long after it was builta tenant of the place murdered his wife by. C. A. SchneiderResidence of William H. Averell andJudge Prentiss smothering her with a pillow in her bedroom, andfor many years it was rumored that occupants ofthe house occasionally were terrified by muffledsounds of moaning as of one in mortal agony. The building referred to in Isaac Coopersdiary as Morrells and Prentiss house includesthe two brick houses on Main Street which standconjoined just east of the Village Club and 222 THE STORY OF COOPERSTOWN Library. Judge Morrell went West, and hishouse, the more westerly of the two, became betterknown as the property of its later owner, WilliamHolt Averell, whose descendants continued to oc-cupy it a century after him. The adjoining house,tuilt by Col. Prentiss, remained after his death inpossession of his family, and his daughter, Mrs.•Charlotte Prentiss Browning, lived to celebrateits centennial. Col. John H. Prentiss, for more than half acentury a resident, and for forty years editor ofthe Freemans Jour
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