First Settler - East Homer, NY
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N 42° 39.967 W 076° 06.038
18T E 409804 N 4724325
There is a plaque in front of the ME Church dedicated to John Albright, first settler.
Waymark Code: WMW0JY
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 06/22/2017
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text: "John Albright 1757-1842 East Homer's first settler built log cabin in 1797 on lot 29, in military tract. Gave land for cemetery, church, parsonage, school. erected by New York State Education Department and East Homer Community 1939"
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"The first settlement made on this site was in 1797, by John Albright, a Revolutionary soldier who, for his services in that struggle, was assigned a bounty lot...Mr. Albright's house stood a few rods distant from the site of the Methodist chapel. "
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