Hometown History - Feb. 21- 22, 2019

150 Years Ago Oneonta – Calvin Short has sold his farm of 100 acres to Thomas Burnside of Otego for $3,100. It will be occupied by his son Sylvester Burnside. Scramling & Michael have opened a real estate agency in connection with their law business over the store of Cope & Co. The boot and shoe firm of Pardee and Coats may be found at their new store on Main Street where everybody can be shod on very reasonable terms. An elegant fine-toned bell for the new M.E. Church arrived last week from Troy, and will soon be in position to send its music over the hills and along the valleys. The coal trains passing up the valley are increasingly large, and yet the trade is only beginning. From January 18 to January 30 Bissell & Yager sold at their office 197 tons of coal. February 1869