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English: Montcalm Place, Residence of Edwin Allen. "Frederick Carrington built a mansion known for generations variously as "the Castle" and "Carrington's Folly" at the southwest corner of Van Buren and Montcalm. An existing frame dwelling at the site was moved across Van Buren Street to allow for its construction. The "Castle" was demolished in the twentieth century and has been replaced by a non-contributing clinic, however, an ashlar stone retaining wall and steps remain at the site."[1]. Obituary of Edwin Allen "who died at "The Castle", his palatial residence on Montcalm Street."[2]

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Title: ... History of Oswego County, New York
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Johnson, Crisfield
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Publisher: Philadelphia, L.H. Everts & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the practicallyirredeemable paper-money shriveled up before the hot breathof the j)anie, involving the whole country in financial dis-aster which has never since been approached. The Oswego people could not at first believe that theirhigh hopes were so completfly blasted, and for a while en-deavored to breast the tide. But all through 1837 pricescontinued to sink, and money, of late so plentiful, becamescarce beyond conception. Both banks broke. Millions of im:iginary wealth disappeared. Neaily every busine.<8man became bankrupt. The firm of Bronson & Crockerstruggled through almost aliflie. Building ceased, and toryears Oswego lay commercially supine under the weight ofthe terrible hard times. On the 1st of March, 1837, a new and complete code ofvillage laws was enacted by the trustees, all previous ordi-nances having been repealed. Kegarding the usual provisionsregulating the market, forbidding the running at large ofanimals, elc, little need be .said, here, but there were two
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HISTORY OF OSWEGO COUNTY, NEW YORK. 151 sections regarding the streets which are of much inter-est. The people had boooine thoroughly weary of the cele.stialstreet-names selected by old Simeon De Witt. The use ofthese had now been extended as far south as the south lineof the old State reservation, near the present Ohio street.To the mind of the ordinary, common-sense citizens, therewas something outlandish in such names as Aries, Taurus,Cancer, Scorpio, Capricornus, and Sagittarius ; and if heknew enough of Latin to translate those appellations intoRam street, Bull street, Crab street, etc., it did nut materi-ally help the matter. So in 1837 the trustees, responding to the general wish,changed the name of all the old streets in the village run-ning east and west. Auriga street was transformed intoHe Witt, Aquila to Mitchell, Lyra to Van Buren, Aries toSchuyler, Taurus to Seneca, Gemini to Cayuga, Cancer toBridge, Leo to Oneida, Virgo to Mohawk, Libra to Utica,Scorpio to Albany, Sagit

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