April 3, 1894 New Village Streets

Looking at the 1894 Sanborn Map or the 1874 Farmer Village map there are very few cross streets. Before the Village of Interlaken was incorporated the Town of Covert was responsible for the creation and laying out of roads.

 

Detail, 1874 Farmer Village map

Orchard, Cayuga and Prospect streets are labeled. Geneva Street would be extended to Main Street and for a time called Depot, then Railroad Ave. Lake View, beside the tracks would become Geneva Street, and a new Lake View street would be added. LeRoy and Clinton streets would also be added. 

The Town of Covert Board Meeting Minute Book 3 page 301 describes this process.

At a meeting of the commissioners of highways of the town of Covert in the County of Seneca on the 3^rd day of April 1894 for the purpose of deliberating on the property of laying out a highway in said town, hereinafter described, and on the application of Leroy C. Bradley, D. C. Wheeler, D. S. Rappleye, Jay Doolittle, George Y. Bogart, Hiram Bloomer, Charles S. Holton, Patrick Mathews, George A. Mosher, A. J. Boorom, Geo C. Tobert persons liable to be assessed for highway labor in said town and a release from the owner of the land through which the highway is proposed to be opened, having been given, it is ordered and determined that a highway shall be and the same is hereby laid out in said town as follows: commencing in the center of Prospect Street near southwest corner of S. A. Drake’s lot running east eighty-five degrees South seven chains and twenty-four links and fifty-eight feet in width, to be known as Clinton Street. Second Street commencing in center of Railroad St at the northwest corner of Michael Stout’s land and runs south four degrees west six chains and sixty-two links to the center and end of Clinton Street. This Street to be known as Leroy Street and forty-five feet in width.

Dated this 3^rd day of April 1894, George Y. Bogart, Commissioner of Highways.

At a later date, Clinton Street would be extended to what is today Lake View Street.

If you are asking why this street for a Snippet, several years ago, Mrs. Theresa Elliott provided a photograph of my Clinton Street house as it looked back then. It had been the home of her grandparents, John and Margaret King. In trying to date the picture I found the information on when the street was laid out by the town.

Dewitt’s Diary Saturday, April 3, 1954

Temperature 14, cold and cloudy. Very cold for this time of year. Took some clover up to A. Culvers. Drove down to Ithaca.

Went to Grange 80^th celebration. E. R. Eastman was the main speaker. I went to school to him all the time he was principal here, 1912-1916. Picture was in Democrat and Chronicle of April 7 (taken at Grange meeting which was held in High School.)