{"id":564,"date":"2018-09-10T21:33:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T01:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theotherplace.xyz\/?p=564"},"modified":"2018-09-12T21:37:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T01:37:32","slug":"earlville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theotherplace.xyz\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Earlville"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Quaker Settlement and Earlville – Detail From Map of Chateaugay, NY \/D.G. Beers’ Atlas of Franklin County, NY 1876<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Google Maps Screenshot of Earlville and Quaker Settlement 09\/10\/2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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It has been far too long between since I put anything up here.\u00a0 I got overwhelmed by all the research required to do the next few posts about the great aunts, uncles,\u00a0 and grandparents.\u00a0 So, while I do a deep dive into aunt Mayme’s probate records, here’s a brief observation.<\/p>\n

If you waded through my post about the data from the US census, then you know that I love digging into obscure data to see what it can say about people’s lives and stories.\u00a0 (You did read it, right?\u00a0\u00a0Here’s a link<\/a> if your eyes glazed over the first time.)\u00a0 And if there’s one thing that I love more than annual crop yield statistics, it’s maps.\u00a0 My God do I love maps.\u00a0 Old maps.\u00a0 New maps.\u00a0 Google Earth, Middle Earth, the AAA TripTik from my 1984 drive from Florida to New Hampshire.\u00a0 Maps are it, man.<\/p>\n

As I spent time poring over the map of Chateaugay from 1876<\/a>, I was struck by all the houses in Earlville\u00a0 (or Slab City as we locals call it).\u00a0 Its a spot on a map with a handful\u00a0 houses now but,\u00a0 my dad talked about how the little hamlet (that’s what Wikipedia calls it) at the intersection of the McCormick Road and the Earlville Road had once been it’s own community.\u00a0 But holy cow – the map below shows more than 20 residences, (most packed tightly together), a starch factory, a cheese factory, a butter factory, and a school. It was a hopping place!<\/p>\n

Since families were pretty large back then, I would guess that the population\u00a0 of Earlville must have approached 100.\u00a0 \u00a0With all the people, and three businesses right there,\u00a0 this neighborhood must have it’s own sense of place. It was a little village tucked into the Northeast corner of town.<\/p>\n

A few more observations<\/p>\n