. Delaware County, New York; history of the century, 1797-1897; centennial celebration, June 9 and 10, 1897. ord. Their horses being-stabled in the woods to browse, the third day were missing, whena search party, of which Abram (irould was one, started on theirtrail. They followed them over the mountain aud on the otherside met Inmau who told them he had their horses aud invitedthem to his cabin. So jileased were they with the location thatthey returned for their families, aud persuading two others tocome with them they came l)ack over their trail to what is nowGrand Gorge, passing through the
. Delaware County, New York; history of the century, 1797-1897; centennial celebration, June 9 and 10, 1897. ord. Their horses being-stabled in the woods to browse, the third day were missing, whena search party, of which Abram (irould was one, started on theirtrail. They followed them over the mountain aud on the otherside met Inmau who told them he had their horses aud invitedthem to his cabin. So jileased were they with the location thatthey returned for their families, aud persuading two others tocome with them they came l)ack over their trail to what is nowGrand Gorge, passing through the mountain uotch and down thevalley to a place now known as West Settlement. Thus the grandold town of Roxbury had its birth. But another settlement had added materially to the beg-iuuingof the town. In the year 17H(i that sturdy old Scotchman JohnMore—whose^numerous descendants are so closely and honorablyassociated with the growth and pros])crity of this town—estali-lished his home near the head waters of the East branch of theDelaware, at a jioint seven miles east of Inmans cabin, his land .?.l^. Tdwx OF nn\iui;y. 521 diiiiii bciuj^ now purtiiilly covciod l)y the villii},o of (iiuud ( befjiiiiiing was known as INfores Settleiiiont, then Moresville,until in ISTo the ])i)st otlicc dipavtnnnt liy n^ason of the conlusionarising from their hoini^ a niiniher of similarly muned otiiccs inthis state chan-j^cd the name to (rraud Gorfje, nprnpas of the j^raiidmountain j^orf^re jnst west of the village. And now commenced the gigantic undertaking of transfonniuga howliuj^ wilderness into tlie heaiitiful town of to-day. His echoing axe llie settler swuiik, Amid the sea-like crasliiug, tliundering, down were liunji The Titans of tlie wood. It was soon learned that the l)ark of the hemlocks which cov-ered the mountain sides could be utilized, and large tanneriessprung into existence along every stream, tr()m which immensequantities of tirst-class sole leather foun
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