. The pioneers of Unadilla village, 1784-1840. erected in their place. The bridge continued in useuntil 1893, when the present structure of iron waserected. It was owned by a compan\T which hadthe privilege of raising money by issuing banknotes. The building of another bridge on a new site atUnadilla was probably influenced somewhat bythe enterprise which was building up a settlementat Crookerville. It was also inspired by the grow-ing interests of the lower business centre of thevillage. On June 29, 1822, in the presence of Dan-iel Cone, Stephen Benton gave the Commissionersof Highways a quit
. The pioneers of Unadilla village, 1784-1840. erected in their place. The bridge continued in useuntil 1893, when the present structure of iron waserected. It was owned by a compan\T which hadthe privilege of raising money by issuing banknotes. The building of another bridge on a new site atUnadilla was probably influenced somewhat bythe enterprise which was building up a settlementat Crookerville. It was also inspired by the grow-ing interests of the lower business centre of thevillage. On June 29, 1822, in the presence of Dan-iel Cone, Stephen Benton gave the Commissionersof Highways a quitclaim deed to a strip of landrunning from the turnpike near Fosters Tavern*on the west side of Sherman Pages line south. This land was granted for a public highway andwas to revert back to Stephen Benton or his heirsin one year after the bridge which is contem-plated to be built across the river shall becomeimpassable for teams and loads, unless a new *This was the tavern which Dr. Cone had erected on the present site ofthe Unadilla House. 92. o w HCO WH H o §« P 125 ouW CO THE TWO BRIDGES. bridge shall be built, and that in good repair forpassing with loads and teams. On the same daya similar deed to land one rod wide adjoining was given to Sherman Page in DanielCones presence for similar uses and on the sameconditions. Benjamin Saunders, W. D. Spencerand Eber Ferris, Commissioners of Highways, laidout this road agreeable to the request of GilbertCone, Albert Benton and John Bissell, trustees forbuilding the free bridge. This bridge remainedfree for ten years and then became a road was not opened earlier than 1823. A newiron bridge was erected on this site in the summerof 1894. In 1821, a handsome two-story building waserected as a school-house, including a classicalschool of about thirty scholars and a commondistrict school. The land for a site had beengranted by Robert Harper of Windsor in July,1820, the consideration being one dollar andother di
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