. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. 412 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY, NEW YORK. loaded with staves down the Conhocton from Bath ; in 1800 he removed to Dansville, opened a store, and during the winter took in 4000 bushels of wheat and 200 barrels of pork, which he shipped in the spring on four arks from Arkport, on the Canisteo, to Baltimore. In 1802 he pur- chased the Cold Spring mill-site, half-way between Bath and the head of Crook
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. 412 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY, NEW YORK. loaded with staves down the Conhocton from Bath ; in 1800 he removed to Dansville, opened a store, and during the winter took in 4000 bushels of wheat and 200 barrels of pork, which he shipped in the spring on four arks from Arkport, on the Canisteo, to Baltimore. In 1802 he pur- chased the Cold Spring mill-site, half-way between Bath and the head of Crooked Lake, of one Skinner, a Quaker, with 200 acres of land, and also purchased, from the land- office and others, about 800 acres to secure the whole priv- ilege. Here he erected a saw-mill, flouring-mill, fulling- mill, and carding-machine. The flouring-mill, with two run of stones, was completed in the best manner in three months. Gen. McClure's design in building this mill was to convert as much as practicable of the wheat of the farmers into flour, it being safer to ship over so dangerous a navigation than the wheat in bulk, which was sure to be Crooked Lake, notwithstanding the famous embargo of President Jefferson. This, however, turned out a fruitless enterprise, as the farmers usually did not thrash their grain and get it ready for market till winter, and then the lake was frozen over and the schooner could not sail. We have thus given the history of the first commerce on Lake Keuka, and the first commercial enterprise at Hammondsport. From this time forward till 1825, the place exhibited nothing beyond the ordinary routine of farm-life. Capt. John Sheathar, as we have seen, was the first settler, in 1796. The land originally purchased by him became the property of Judge Lazarus Hammond, in 1807. Several years after. Judge Hammond became a resident of the place, and built his house on the site of the present residence of Deloss Rose, Esq., on Sheathar Street. He laid out
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