HISTORICAL MARKER—2 p.m. New historical marker arrives for The Sixth Ward, 70 River Street, Oneonta. (607) 432-6450 or https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1110346874472900&set=a.232668738907389…
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HISTORY TOUR—6 p.m. “Summer Walking Tour of Main Street in the 1960s.” Presented by the Greater Oneonta Historical Society. Oneonta natives explore historic downtown in the age of Woodstock. Coincides with the exhibition, “Schools of Rock.” Admission by donation. Meet at the Oneonta History Center, 183 Main Street, Oneonta. (607) 432-0960 or https://www.facebook.com/events/562890373201411/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D…
On the afternoon of Friday, June 13 at 2 p.m., generations of Oneontans gathered beside one another outside the city’s historic Center Street School building. This congregation was to celebrate the unveiling of the first of five New York State historical markers being placed in Oneonta throughout the coming summer months.…
ONEONTA HISTORY—6-7:30 p.m. “Soccertown: Then & Now.” Panel presentation featuring local coaches and players, past and present. The Loft, Foothills Performing Arts and Civic Center, 24 Market Street, Oneonta. (607) 432-0960 or https://oneontahistory.org/events-programs/…
The exhibition includes images of “The Wall” at the corner of Center and West streets, where community members have memorialized political opinions, sporting triumphs, college events, and even marriage proposals over the past half-century.…
ONEONTA HISTORY—2 p.m. Historical Marker Unveiling for Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Avenue, Oneonta. (607) 432-0960 or visit https://www.facebook.com/OneontaHistory/…
125 Years Ago The Local News—From the annual report of the state factory inspectors it is seen that Otsego County has twenty factories, employing over 900 hands. Fourteen are located in Oneonta, three in Unadilla and two at Schenevus. In the county there are nine cigar factories, employing some 200 hands, three-fourths of whom are engaged in factories in Oneonta. No man takes more pride in the neatness of the exterior surroundings of his residence than C.E. Ford. From the…
Hometown History March 30, 2023 125 Years AgoPeople say prices are inflated now and that we are overdoing it. Such critics should have been here sixteen years ago. Why, there is any quantity of well-situated property in the central part of the town that doesn’t yet command the figure it was held at in 1872. The change of recent years, the advance in value, has been largely felt along Main Street, and in the outlying districts. Main Street frontages are…
Hometown History March 9, 2023 135 Years AgoThe season 1888 opens with the biggest real estate deal yet recorded for Oneonta in the purchase by Geo. I. Wilber, from A.C. Lewis, of all remaining to the latter of the old Ford place, 156.75 feet on Main Street, at about $30,000. This includes the east half of the Union Block, 22.5 feet, a fine four-story brick building, store on the street and three flats above – as well as a large…
Hometown History January 19, 2023 135 Years AgoThe Local News: Michael Sullivan of Osborn Hollow died recently. The deceased had been in the employ of the D & H Company for the past 18 years and had lost in that time but two or three days. He was track walker between Osborn Hollow and Port Crane, and his daily trip covered twenty miles. During his 18 years of service he walked a trifle over 131,000 miles.A.N. Deuel, formerly a railroad…
