Fauskit Harris - Harrisville, New York
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N 44° 08.975 W 075° 19.067
18T E 474586 N 4888536
The memorial is immediately west of the foot bridge.
Waymark Code: WMHKBG
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 07/19/2013
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IN MEMORY OF
FAUSKIT HARRIS
FOUNDER OF HARRISVILLE
1830
According to the monumental inscription in the Harrisville Cemetery, Foskit Harris, the father of Harrisville, died 11 December 1842, aged 56 years. His wife Penelope died 20 July 1863, aged 69 years and five months.
The memorial suggests that Fauskit Harris founded Harrisville in 1830. At the time of the 1820 and 1830 census, Fosket(t) Harris, his wife and their eight children were enumerated as residents of the town of Champion, Jefferson county, New York. Part of the town of Champion did become the town of Harrisburg (Lewis county). According to the cited on-line history of Diana, Foskit Harris of Champion, under a promise of two acres of land and a waterfall on the Oswegatchie, with other inducements, from Judge Boyer, agent of Bonaparte, hired several men, and on the 25th of September of that year 1833, pushed three miles beyond settlement, and began the erection of mills at the present village of Harrisville.
In the 1840 enumeration of the town of Diana, Lewis county, the household of Foskit Harris consists of nine individuals. The community of Harrisville is located in the town of Diana.
The park is north of Main Street (New York route #3) between River and Maple.