Juliand Deer Park, Bainbridge

The Deer and Park of Olden Time on the Col. R.W. Juliand Estate

Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York

Bainbridge Press, Apr. 20, 1939

 

In the year of 1900, Mrs. Henry A. Clark, mother of Charles H. Clark, wrote the following article about the Juliand estate, for the Bainbridge Republican.

 

Interesting Bit of History

 

1900:  The fine deer brought from the North Woods, last week, and on exhibition at Hotel Mills as a specimen of the large game found there by Mr. Mills and his skill as a marksman, may remind some of the older residents of this village, of the beautiful deer formerly kept by the late Col. R.W. Juliand at his park in front of his residence on West Main street.  The park was an extensive domain taking in all Juliand street and extending back upon a beautiful wooded upland, giving the deer a wide extent over which to roam.  As the growth of the village required an encroachment upon the park, the owner permitted much of the land to be opened up for the public benefit, and in so doing, made a sacrifice of personal sentiment and sold the deer, of which there were several, to Francis Roche, a wealthy and aristocratic Englishman at Morris, N.Y., who purchased them for his brother, a member of Parliament in England, to be kept in his parks as specimens of pure American wild deer.