The Great Fire - Skaneateles, NY
Posted by: YoSam.
N 42° 56.748 W 076° 25.687
18T E 383493 N 4755785
Fire removed 13 building in a growing town.
Waymark Code: WMK16D
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 01/28/2014
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County of fire: Onondaga County
Location of fire: 14 - 20 E. Genesee St.,
Thirteen lakeside buildings were destroyed commencing in Parsons Cabinet Shop
Date of fire: September 28, 1935
Marker erected by: Skaneateles Historic Marker
Date marker erected: 2001
Marker text: "THE GREAT FIRE - September 28, 1835, Thirteen lakeside buildings were destroyed commencing in Parsons Cabinet Shop."
"Lakeside shops and residences and a School house that comprised the core of the village. The businesses destroyed were: Parsons’ Cabinet Shop; John Legg’s Carriage Manufactory; M. A. Kinney’s Columbian Printing Office; Nathaniel C. Miller’s Saddlery Shop; W. M. Beauchamp’s Book Store & Bindery; Dr. Samuel Porter’s office; Noadiah Kellogg’s Saddlery Shop; General Stores of B. S. Wolcott & Co., Charles Pardee, Gibbs & Burnett, James G. Porter, Phares Gould, Nelson Hawley & Co., and Richard Talcott & Co." - New York Historic
Map of the Great Fire