110 YEARS AGO: About four o’clock Wednesday afternoon the large and modern barns of E.O. Rogers, located north of and near the trolley crossing at the station in Hartwick, were discovered to be on fire. The flames had gained such headway before the firemen had water upon the buildings that they were destroyed with much of the contents, although all the livestock and the wagons and harness were gotten out.…

185 YEARS AGO: Phoenix Factory Stock—At a meeting of the Trustees of the Phoenix Cotton Manufactory, held at the office Robert Campbell in the Village of Cooperstown on the tenth Day of September, in the Year of our Lord, One thousand, Eight Hundred and Forty-One, present Robert Campbell, Sherman Page, Eben B. Morehouse, Trustees: Resolved, that a call be made on the Stockholders of the Company of thirteen dollars and eighty cents on each share of Stock held by them respectively, to be paid to the Agent of the said Company at their Factory Store in Middlefield, on or before the fifteenth day of November next, under the penalty of their forfeiting their said shares of Stock and all previous payments made thereon. Peleg H. Kent, Agent…