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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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ton, over the Salt road,in 1820, and buying three or four bushels of wheat andseveral bushels of potatoes at the block-house, at the aboveprices. They were even obliged to pay a dollar and a halfper bushel for potatoes with the eyes cut off. Mr. Snow moved to Coughdenoy in 1822, and finally, in1826, settled on a farm in the LHommedieu location,where his widow still resides, at the age of eighty-seven, withher son, Leonard Snow. In 1809 Mr. Solomon Allen had settled a little east ofCentral Square, on lot 26. Mr. Allen passed a quiet life in tilling the soil, and diedin 1875, at the age of ninety, while on his way to Florida,having lived in town sixty-six years. The first blacksmith in Hastings was Elijah Goodspecd,who became a resident of this town, on lot 20, in 1815. Chester Loomis came from West Monroe and built hima house at Central Square, where he remained five or sixyears, serving the public as a hotel proprietor. His housewas burned about 1818, but was .soon rebuilt by Mr. Loa-
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HISTORY OF OSWEGO COUNTY, NEW YORK. 359 mis. About 1820 Mr. Loomis sold his farm, wliich was onlot 41, to Nicliolas I. Roosevelt. It is noted for two salt-springs upon it, with which many experiments have beentried, both in earlier and later days. This same year Hastings Curtiss moved to CentralSi(uaro, and built and opened a store on the corner nowowned by George Campbell. Mr. Curtiss was one of theluo.st enterprising men in the county. He built a brickhotel which was the first brick liou,se in town, kept the firstpost-office, and was one of the company that ran the firststages from Salina to Watertown, about 1825. As the )i.stof officers both of town and county will show, he held manyimportant positions, and in his honor the town was namedHastings, being formed from Constantia, April 20, 1825. In 1824 a bridge was built at Fort Brewerton by Mr.Leonard Fuller, as contractor for a chartered company;that being the point where the Salt road from Salina toWatertown crossed the river. In

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