. Binghamton : its settlement, growth and development, and the factors in its history, 1800-1900 . on July 1, 1892, a tract of land on Robinson street was purchasedfrom Charles B. Piatt, at a cost of $3,000. The present large brick By an amendment to the charter passed April 4. 1890. the boundaries of the city were ex-tended to include all the remaining portion of the town of Binghamton which lay north of theSusquehanna except the town of Dickinson, and as well a considerable area south of the the same time the wards were increased to thirteen in number, and were made to compriseseven
. Binghamton : its settlement, growth and development, and the factors in its history, 1800-1900 . on July 1, 1892, a tract of land on Robinson street was purchasedfrom Charles B. Piatt, at a cost of $3,000. The present large brick By an amendment to the charter passed April 4. 1890. the boundaries of the city were ex-tended to include all the remaining portion of the town of Binghamton which lay north of theSusquehanna except the town of Dickinson, and as well a considerable area south of the the same time the wards were increased to thirteen in number, and were made to compriseseven school commissioner districts. Under the extension of the limits the city acquired, inwhole or in part, several previously existing town of Binghamton districts. The east end orPierce Creek school was one of these properties, and was deeded to the city July 21, 1H90, by Cal-vm B. Preston, sole trustee of district No. 13;was not used by the board, the town district 246 BINGHAMTON, ITS SETTLEMENT, school house was erected on this land in 1893, and cost $7,797. An ad-dition in 1897 cost $6, School No. ij, Rossville.—For several years previous to the erection GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 247 of the present Rossville school building a primary school was conductedin the Meeker block on Park avenue. On July 21, 1890, the board pur- p v:HB^ng|w aOflHB||nf Y B ^^H^r ^^^^^^^IV^^^^^^I Hy IP^IM^S ^ HB iIH SHHIBiBteBMiBi^MEMBiH mik R UmV § ^^^ chased from Burton M. Babcock a large lot of land on Pennsylvani 248 BINGHAMTON, ITS SETTLEMENT, avenue, extending east to Park avenue; consideration, $1,500. Theschool house was built in 1896, and cost $8,433. It is a large two-story
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