. Onondaga's centennial. Gleanings of a century. the Peck & Tracy foundry. William Board-man was long a prominent citizen and business man. On the site of the old Red Mill, which was built in 1824, was inlater years the bedstead factory of Garrison & Taylor, which wasburned and never rebuilt. The site is now occupied by the electricplant, which supplies electricity to the villages of Jordan, Elbridge, andSkaneateles. About 1S50 a wheelbarrow manufactory was established by Sperrv &Rockwell, whose successors were S. L. Rockwell & Co. In 1865 thesaw and strawboard mill of George Putnam was starte
. Onondaga's centennial. Gleanings of a century. the Peck & Tracy foundry. William Board-man was long a prominent citizen and business man. On the site of the old Red Mill, which was built in 1824, was inlater years the bedstead factory of Garrison & Taylor, which wasburned and never rebuilt. The site is now occupied by the electricplant, which supplies electricity to the villages of Jordan, Elbridge, andSkaneateles. About 1S50 a wheelbarrow manufactory was established by Sperrv &Rockwell, whose successors were S. L. Rockwell & Co. In 1865 thesaw and strawboard mill of George Putnam was started by Hardy &Putnam, and in 1872 a second wheelbarrow factory was put in opera-tion by A. D. Peck; this is now a machine shop. These various manufacturing interests, together with the mercantiletrade of Jordan village, called into existence the private bank of West-fall & Co., which ultimately failed. In 1870 a private banking businesswas established by R. S. Sperrv & Co., who were succeeded by Rodger<S Co. m is; i. WILLIAM C. RODGER. THE TOWN OF ELBRIDGE. 707 Along the banlo : Skaneateles Creek a number of manufactorieshave been operated ost of them with considerable success. At El-bridge the old Munr louring- mill was long an important establishment,and is now owned by Alfred E. Stacey. In abuilding erected by JacobW. Page in 1826 John T. Thomas & Sons had a bedstead factory, whichwas started in 1859; Deacon Huntington was a member of this firmfor a time. The structure was burned February 19, 1895, while occu-pied for a glove and mitten factory by S. P. Rowe & Co. The glovebusiness has given Elbridge quite a wide reputation in recent old carding mill and cloth-dressing establishment of Levi Clarkwas subsequently utilized for a pail factory, saw mill and chair chair^works were started by Eaton & Seeley in 1877 and in thesame year a similar establishment was put in operation by Buckman &vSons. On the site of the strawboard mill was very early an oil mill
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