Sleuth Party Checks Up On Old History of Town
Group Visits Older People for Answers
Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York
[Time Frame of Quiz Answers was the 1930s]
1. Where was the Post Office in 1895?
Answer: The Winifred Cook Barber Shop on West Main now occupies the building where the Post Office was located in 1895.
2. Locate the site of the Bernhurst Hotel.
Answer: The Bernhurst Hotel was formerly on the site where Harry Hall recently operated a garage on North Main street.
3. Find the loading door of Perry Rood's feed store.
Answer: The loading door of Perry Rood's feed store was at the Grange Building, now the Bainbridge News office.
4. Where in this village did Peter Packard live when he operated stage routes between Boston and Buffalo?
Answer: Peter Packard formerly lived in the house now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Claude Butler on North Main street.
5. Find the house which used to stand where Dr. Dodge's home now is.
Answer: The L.A. Gridley house on Pearl street, opposite the home of Mrs. Bessie Toby formerly stood on the plot of land where Dr. Dodge's house now stands.
6. Locate the site of Charles Phinney's blacksmith shop.
Answer: The site of Charles Phinney's blacksmith shop was between the houses of H.J. Wood and Elmer Archer on South Main street.
7. Locate the bar room which was known as "The Hole in the Wall."
Answer: The bar room known as "The Hole in the Wall" was located below Leone's Restaurant.
8. Locate Henry Brigham's blacksmith shop.
Answer: Henry Brigham's Blacksmith shop is now the barn belonging to Will Thomas.
9. Locate the building formerly used as a meeting house by the M.E. Society.
Answer: The original Methodist meeting house is now the four family house on Evans street.
10. Locate Tinkham's Mill
Answer: Tinkham's Mill is now the Eldred Coal and Feed Mill.
11. What building stands on third base of the baseball diamond used in 1897?
Answer: The band pagoda now stands on the position of third base on the baseball diamond used in 1897.
12. Locate the site of Evan's grist and feed mill.
Answer: Evan's grist and feed mill was located below the Frank Payne house on the river bank.
13. What year was the wooden covered bridge over the river demolished?
Answer: The wooded covered river bridge was demolished in 1898.
14. In 1813 Baron de Zeng built a house in Bainbridge. That house is still standing. Which is it?
Answer: The Juliand house, now known as Terrace Hill, was built by Baron de Zeng in 1813.
15. Two small buildings used to stand where the M.E. Church now is. One which was used by Lula Hunter as a millinery shop, one was moved further up North Main street, and used as a cobbler shop, moved again and remodeled for a dwelling. Where is it?
Answer: The LeGrand Parsons' house was formerly a millinery shop run by Lulu Hunter on the site of the present M.E. Church and was later moved up North Main street and used as a cobbler's chop.
16. During a native son's term of office as treasurer of New York state, a reception was given Gov. Flower in Bainbridge. To make the affair more impressive, the State Treasurer built a large bay window on his house where the receiving line stood. Find the window.
Answer: The large bay window in the home of Mr. and Mrs. R.W. Kirby was built by the state treasurer, Elliot Danforth, in honor of the reception to Governor Flower.
17. Locate the Charles Fisher Bottling Works where beer and ale were bottled and delivered to surrounding towns.
Answer: The Charles Fisher Bottling Works is now used as a barn belonging to Mrs. Helene Landon, in the rear of the Ray Searles' house on North Main street.
18. Where the A.&P. store is, S.S. Wheeler built a small portable building and operated a photographer's studio. Geo. Blake bought the building, moved it on North Main street, opposite the Frieot home and ran a cigar shop in it. Eventually about 1902 that same building was purchased by another party, moved quite a distance and used as an addition to a dwelling. Can you find it?
Answer: The S.S. Wheeler photographer's studio and later the Geo. Blake cigar shop is now the rear addition on the house of Mrs. Belle Heath at the corner of Pearl and Tyler street.
19. Where is the site on Pyrne Hill of the barn which burned about a year ago.
Answer: The barn belonging to Bruce Weymouth on Pryne Hill burned about a year ago.
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