Primary Sources: Village of Cayuga Heights
Marcham Hall has a rich collection of primary-source documents that help reconstruct the village's municipal history. Village Historian Beatrice Szekely has made significant progress cataloging these documents and researching their provenance and significance.
The George H. Russell Papers in the Village of Cayuga Heights History Records
by Beatrice Szekely, Village Historian, June 2016
by Beatrice Szekely, Village Historian, June 2016
Provenance: Eleven documents dealing with the history of the major roads in the Village of Cayuga Heights from 1901 to 1911 were left waiting to be found in an accordion file folder in one of the cardboard boxes marked “history” at the village municipal building, Marcham Hall. A note in the folder, likely typed by a village clerk, disclosed their origin: “Mr. George Russell the lawyer brought these papers in for our History file, November 1, 1974.” They undoubtedly were in files from the law firm of Jared Treman Newman (1855-1937), who developed Cayuga Heights early in the twentieth century with law partner Charles Hazen Blood (1866-1938).
George Russell was first as clerk then, after1924, a managing clerk in the law firm of Newman and Newman which was made up of Jared Newman and his son Charles Hardy Newman (1891-1963). An exchange of cordial letters between Jared Newman and George Russell in which the former set out terms by which he was offering the latter advancement to a managing clerkship are found in the Jared T. Newman Papers, Rare and Manuscripts Collections, Cornell University Library, Collection 2157, box 16, May 1924.
George H. Russell practiced law in the City of Ithaca for close to 60 years, from 1923 to 1980. After he left the Newman firm and struck out on his own in the 1920s his offices were in the same downtown Ithaca buildings where the Newmans firm was located, first, in the Library Building, then at 114 N. Tioga Street, which was later listed as the Ithaca Savings Bank Building. The city directory for 1934 shows George Russell in room 301 of the Savings Bank Building and attorneys “Newman and Newman” in room 308. After Jared Newman died, Charles practiced in the Savings Bank Building until his own death. When attorney Russell dropped off the records at the village hall in 1974, he was very likely cleaning out files before moving his office a year later from room 301 to 519.
All of the documents predate Russell’s practice and are either originals or contemporary copies. A 1901 letter to Jared Newman interpreting the terms of state law for the funding of county and town road construction, for example, bears the signature of the state engineer and surveyor. Further to the point, a January 1902 statement on road improvement projects in New York was enclosed in an envelope addressed to Newman and Blood. Several of the legal papers were signed by them, along with county and town highway commissioners, clerks, and other officials.
Charles Newman was the first zoning officer of the Village of Cayuga Heights and later village attorney; he had good reason to retain the documents for reference after his father died. The legal papers could then have passed on to Russell directly when the office was emptied. Some ten years later, when attorney Russell dropped off the records at the village hall, he was very likely cleaning out files prior to a final office move which he made at that time to room 519 in the Savings Bank Building.
In addition to his professional ties to the Newmans, Russell was also a resident of Cayuga Heights. In 1928 Russell moved into a four-bedroom house with his first wife Gretel Schenck Russell (1899-1929; Cornell ‘23). The house address was 409 Klinewoods Road, subsequently changed to 415 Klinewoods. Jared Newman undoubtedly referred to his professional colleague George Russell when he wrote in an advertising column placed in the Ithaca Journal under the series title “Cayuga Heights Notes” on April 30, 1935, “One of our most popular lawyers lives on Klinewoods Road and makes a practice of walking way down town to his office and back every day.” The intent of the ad was to entice buyers to a road that in the 1930s seemed very out of the way compared to those in the southern part of the village where both the older and younger Newman families had built their homes. The Klinewoods area, one of the last of Jared Newman’s real estate ventures, undertaken during the Depression when he was facing bankruptcy, lay outside the municipal boundary of the Village of Cayuga Heights until the 1950s.
(George, widowed in 1929, married teacher Alma Townsend (1900-1990) in 1931. Tompkins County deed records show that Alma Russell, widowed after her husband’s death in 1982, died in 1990, and the house was sold the following year. Your historian remembers being welcomed by Mrs. Russell on Halloween trick or treating with small children years ago.)
George Russell was first as clerk then, after1924, a managing clerk in the law firm of Newman and Newman which was made up of Jared Newman and his son Charles Hardy Newman (1891-1963). An exchange of cordial letters between Jared Newman and George Russell in which the former set out terms by which he was offering the latter advancement to a managing clerkship are found in the Jared T. Newman Papers, Rare and Manuscripts Collections, Cornell University Library, Collection 2157, box 16, May 1924.
George H. Russell practiced law in the City of Ithaca for close to 60 years, from 1923 to 1980. After he left the Newman firm and struck out on his own in the 1920s his offices were in the same downtown Ithaca buildings where the Newmans firm was located, first, in the Library Building, then at 114 N. Tioga Street, which was later listed as the Ithaca Savings Bank Building. The city directory for 1934 shows George Russell in room 301 of the Savings Bank Building and attorneys “Newman and Newman” in room 308. After Jared Newman died, Charles practiced in the Savings Bank Building until his own death. When attorney Russell dropped off the records at the village hall in 1974, he was very likely cleaning out files before moving his office a year later from room 301 to 519.
All of the documents predate Russell’s practice and are either originals or contemporary copies. A 1901 letter to Jared Newman interpreting the terms of state law for the funding of county and town road construction, for example, bears the signature of the state engineer and surveyor. Further to the point, a January 1902 statement on road improvement projects in New York was enclosed in an envelope addressed to Newman and Blood. Several of the legal papers were signed by them, along with county and town highway commissioners, clerks, and other officials.
Charles Newman was the first zoning officer of the Village of Cayuga Heights and later village attorney; he had good reason to retain the documents for reference after his father died. The legal papers could then have passed on to Russell directly when the office was emptied. Some ten years later, when attorney Russell dropped off the records at the village hall, he was very likely cleaning out files prior to a final office move which he made at that time to room 519 in the Savings Bank Building.
In addition to his professional ties to the Newmans, Russell was also a resident of Cayuga Heights. In 1928 Russell moved into a four-bedroom house with his first wife Gretel Schenck Russell (1899-1929; Cornell ‘23). The house address was 409 Klinewoods Road, subsequently changed to 415 Klinewoods. Jared Newman undoubtedly referred to his professional colleague George Russell when he wrote in an advertising column placed in the Ithaca Journal under the series title “Cayuga Heights Notes” on April 30, 1935, “One of our most popular lawyers lives on Klinewoods Road and makes a practice of walking way down town to his office and back every day.” The intent of the ad was to entice buyers to a road that in the 1930s seemed very out of the way compared to those in the southern part of the village where both the older and younger Newman families had built their homes. The Klinewoods area, one of the last of Jared Newman’s real estate ventures, undertaken during the Depression when he was facing bankruptcy, lay outside the municipal boundary of the Village of Cayuga Heights until the 1950s.
(George, widowed in 1929, married teacher Alma Townsend (1900-1990) in 1931. Tompkins County deed records show that Alma Russell, widowed after her husband’s death in 1982, died in 1990, and the house was sold the following year. Your historian remembers being welcomed by Mrs. Russell on Halloween trick or treating with small children years ago.)
Description: There are eleven document files in the George H. Russell Papers (GHRP) of the Village of Cayuga Heights History Records (VCHHR). Other than the 1901 Newman and Blood correspondence about road construction law referenced above and the 1902 state road improvement report, all are legal papers. They record applications, dedications, releases, right-of-way agreements, and orders for the layout and alterations of roads either in Cayuga Heights before its incorporation as a village in the Town of Ithaca on June 12, 1915 or in the Town of Lansing. All nine of these legal files, except one, are fastened inside faded blue or beige 8 ½” x 14” covers. They are in excellent condition and appear not to have been referenced since deposited in Cayuga Heights forty-two years ago.
Significance: The Russell Papers complement such sources as state highway superintendent reports, contemporary newspaper articles, and the papers of Jared Newman and Charles Blood at the Cornell University Library for research on the early history of Cayuga Heights. During the first decade of the twentieth century Newman and Blood, having purchased the land, had to alter old roads and install new ones on what was mostly fallow farm acreage before they could subdivide and sell lots for home sites. Cayuga Heights, Wyckoff, Highland, Hanshaw, Renwick, Remington, Triphammer, The Parkway, Iroquois, Klinewoods, and Upland roads all figure in these documents that trace, if not in an easily understood sequence, the allocation of funds for the construction of dirt roads and their “improvement” with gravel or macadam paving. References are made to surveying and mapping, which underlay the route descriptions in the documents and was carried out by Cornell civil engineering professor Charles Leigh Crandall (1850-1917). He was an uncle of Carl Crandall (1890-1968), who would become the first engineer and superintendent of public works in Cayuga Heights and would be charged with overseeing the physical infrastructure of the village from its founding until 1962.
Twenty-one miles of roadways have carved out neighborhoods in the village since 1900. The derivation of their names are included in deputy historian Patricia Longoria’s From Farm to Suburb, A History of Place Names in Cayuga Heights, Ithaca, New York. By 1910, as Carol Sisler has narrated in Enterprising Families, Ithaca, New York, Their Houses and Businesses (Enterprise Publishing, 1986), their securing of government funding for road building in Cayuga Heights had resulted in accusations that cost Jared Newman and Charles Blood budding political careers.
Ongoing research using the rich trove of maps at Marcham Hall, along with resources of the John Marcham Library at The History Center in Tompkins County and Rare and Manuscript Collections of the Cornell University Library, will take the story further.
Twenty-one miles of roadways have carved out neighborhoods in the village since 1900. The derivation of their names are included in deputy historian Patricia Longoria’s From Farm to Suburb, A History of Place Names in Cayuga Heights, Ithaca, New York. By 1910, as Carol Sisler has narrated in Enterprising Families, Ithaca, New York, Their Houses and Businesses (Enterprise Publishing, 1986), their securing of government funding for road building in Cayuga Heights had resulted in accusations that cost Jared Newman and Charles Blood budding political careers.
Ongoing research using the rich trove of maps at Marcham Hall, along with resources of the John Marcham Library at The History Center in Tompkins County and Rare and Manuscript Collections of the Cornell University Library, will take the story further.
List of the Documents and Annotation: The eleven document files are numbered in chronological order. Main citations are flush to the left margin; additional citations for discrete legal papers within files are indented. Informal annotations are enclosed in parentheses.
1. New York State Attorney General John C. Davies to Hon. Edward A. Bond, State Engineer and Surveyor, Albany, N.Y., November 20th, 1901; and
Edward A. Bond to Messrs. Newman and Blood, Ithaca, N.Y., Subject: Good Roads Right to Improve Road, November 20, 1901.
(Correspondence by which Jared Newman secured legal opinion that roadways could receive New York State funding if surveyed and mapped but not yet constructed)
Edward A. Bond to Messrs. Newman and Blood, Ithaca, N.Y., Subject: Good Roads Right to Improve Road, November 20, 1901.
(Correspondence by which Jared Newman secured legal opinion that roadways could receive New York State funding if surveyed and mapped but not yet constructed)
2. Office of the State Engineer and Surveyor of the State of New York, Albany, Statement – January 1, 1902, Improvement Public Highways, in an envelope addressed to “Newman and Blood Esq’res, Savings Bank Building, Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York,” from “Edwin C. Delavan Jr., Counsellor at Law, 56 Wall Street, City of New York,” postmarked December 30, 1902.
(Printed statement dated January 1, 1902 showing all land for which petitions have been received for road improvement, town and county resolutions passed to date, and any funds appropriated with numbers of miles and amounts indicated, in accord with Section 11, chapter 115, laws 1898, otherwise known as the Higbie-Armstrong Good Roads Law)
(Printed statement dated January 1, 1902 showing all land for which petitions have been received for road improvement, town and county resolutions passed to date, and any funds appropriated with numbers of miles and amounts indicated, in accord with Section 11, chapter 115, laws 1898, otherwise known as the Higbie-Armstrong Good Roads Law)
3. In the Matter of the Improvement, under Chapter 115 of the Laws of 1898, of The Highway running northerly from the north line of the City of Ithaca where it is intersected by the extension of Stewart Avenue through the town of Ithaca and the southern part of the town of Lansing, to the intersection of said highway with the Lake road adjacent to the Esty place. Copy. Petition.
(Petition from land owners to the Tompkins County Board of Supervisors requesting a resolution for improvement of the road that would be known as Cayuga Heights Road in the towns of Ithaca and Lansing)
(Petition from land owners to the Tompkins County Board of Supervisors requesting a resolution for improvement of the road that would be known as Cayuga Heights Road in the towns of Ithaca and Lansing)
4. Duplicate Copies of Orders, Laying Out Highways in the Towns of Ithaca and Lansing. Filed with the Releases in the respective Town Clerks’ Offices, dated “December 8th, 1902.”
County of Tompkins, Town of Lansing. In the Matter of The Dedication of Lands for a Public Highway, running from the north line of the Town of Ithaca northerly to the Lake Road, signed by Clarence M. Buck, Commissioner of Highway of Town Lansing,” no date.
County of Tompkins, Town of Ithaca. In the Matter of The Dedication of Lands for a New Highway, running from the north line of the corporation of the City of Ithaca northerly to the south line of the Town of Lansing, signed by “Horace A. Brown Comr,” no date.
County of Tompkins, Town of Lansing. In the Matter of The Dedication of Lands for a Public Highway on Lots Numbers 88 and 90 in the Town of Ithaca, signed by “Horace A. Brown Comr,” no date.
County of Tompkins, Town of Lansing. In the Matter of The dedication of Lands for a New Highway, running from the Lake Road through the Renwick Tract to the Kline Road, signed by “Horace A. Brown Comr of Highways of the Town of Ithaca,” no date.
(Dedications of land and orders for the laying out of what would become Cayuga Heights Road in the towns of Ithaca and Lansing, and Wyckoff Road from Cayuga Heights Road southeast to the City of Ithaca)
County of Tompkins, Town of Lansing. In the Matter of The Dedication of Lands for a Public Highway, running from the north line of the Town of Ithaca northerly to the Lake Road, signed by Clarence M. Buck, Commissioner of Highway of Town Lansing,” no date.
County of Tompkins, Town of Ithaca. In the Matter of The Dedication of Lands for a New Highway, running from the north line of the corporation of the City of Ithaca northerly to the south line of the Town of Lansing, signed by “Horace A. Brown Comr,” no date.
County of Tompkins, Town of Lansing. In the Matter of The Dedication of Lands for a Public Highway on Lots Numbers 88 and 90 in the Town of Ithaca, signed by “Horace A. Brown Comr,” no date.
County of Tompkins, Town of Lansing. In the Matter of The dedication of Lands for a New Highway, running from the Lake Road through the Renwick Tract to the Kline Road, signed by “Horace A. Brown Comr of Highways of the Town of Ithaca,” no date.
(Dedications of land and orders for the laying out of what would become Cayuga Heights Road in the towns of Ithaca and Lansing, and Wyckoff Road from Cayuga Heights Road southeast to the City of Ithaca)
5. In the Matter of The Improvement of Cayuga Heights, the Laying Out and Improvement of Highland Avenue Connection with Cayuga Heights Road, Improvement of Highland Avenue, and the Improvement of the Manning Road. Copies of Papers.
County of Tompkins. Town of Ithaca. In the Matter of The Laying out of a new highway extending from Cayuga Heights Road to the road running easterly from the Remington Salt Works, and the alteration of the road laid out by order dated December 26, 1905, dated June 13, 1906 and signed by – or their names were inserted in this copy -- six Ithaca Town Board members with John J. Hanshaw at top of list and including F. M. McPherson.
County of Tompkins, Town of Ithaca. In the Matter of The Alteration of the Highway in Continuance of Highland Avenue laid out by order dared December 26, 1905, dated June 18, 1906, same six signatories on resolution.
County of Tompkins, Town of Ithaca. In the Matter of The Dedication of Lands for a Public Highway running from the north line of the Town of Ithaca northerly to the Lake Road, known as the Cayuga Heights Road, June 29, 1906, left unsigned by Ithaca town supervisor.
(June 13, 1906 application to alter a December 26, 1905 petition to layout Highland and to lay out instead what would become part of Hanshaw Road from near the present-day terminus of Remington Road to Community Corners, a distance of 1 1/8 miles; resolution by Town of Ithaca board to do so on June 18; order of town commissioner of highways to do so; unsigned petition of June 20 to do so from landowners and a signed one from Newman also dated June 18; an undated resolution directing the county clerk to forward the county resolution to the state engineer and surveyor; June 18 petition from Edward Wyckoff to county board of supervisors; undated resolution signed by six members of the county board of supervisors resolving the petition to improve the road as described in the documents. Also, relating to Cayuga Heights Road: a June 20, 1906 Town Board of Lansing resolution to alter the layout of the not-yet-constructed road to conform with a state engineer’s directive, the landowners having given consent – LaBarr, McKinney, and Mood; not dated but must be after the Town of Lansing order for layout.)
County of Tompkins. Town of Ithaca. In the Matter of The Laying out of a new highway extending from Cayuga Heights Road to the road running easterly from the Remington Salt Works, and the alteration of the road laid out by order dated December 26, 1905, dated June 13, 1906 and signed by – or their names were inserted in this copy -- six Ithaca Town Board members with John J. Hanshaw at top of list and including F. M. McPherson.
County of Tompkins, Town of Ithaca. In the Matter of The Alteration of the Highway in Continuance of Highland Avenue laid out by order dared December 26, 1905, dated June 18, 1906, same six signatories on resolution.
County of Tompkins, Town of Ithaca. In the Matter of The Dedication of Lands for a Public Highway running from the north line of the Town of Ithaca northerly to the Lake Road, known as the Cayuga Heights Road, June 29, 1906, left unsigned by Ithaca town supervisor.
(June 13, 1906 application to alter a December 26, 1905 petition to layout Highland and to lay out instead what would become part of Hanshaw Road from near the present-day terminus of Remington Road to Community Corners, a distance of 1 1/8 miles; resolution by Town of Ithaca board to do so on June 18; order of town commissioner of highways to do so; unsigned petition of June 20 to do so from landowners and a signed one from Newman also dated June 18; an undated resolution directing the county clerk to forward the county resolution to the state engineer and surveyor; June 18 petition from Edward Wyckoff to county board of supervisors; undated resolution signed by six members of the county board of supervisors resolving the petition to improve the road as described in the documents. Also, relating to Cayuga Heights Road: a June 20, 1906 Town Board of Lansing resolution to alter the layout of the not-yet-constructed road to conform with a state engineer’s directive, the landowners having given consent – LaBarr, McKinney, and Mood; not dated but must be after the Town of Lansing order for layout.)
6. Town of Ithaca. In the Matter of the Application to lay out a New Highway in the Town of Ithaca known as The Triphammer Road, August 11, 1906, signed “Ezra C. Brown, Comr Town of Ithaca.”
Town of Ithaca. In the Matter of the Application to lay out a New Highway in the Town of Ithaca known as The Extension of the Wyckoff Road, August 31, 1906, signed “Ezra Brown Commissioner.”
Town of Ithaca. In the Matter of the Application to lay out a New Highway in the Town of Ithaca known as The Remington Road; and to discontinue that portion of the Road Running East from the Remington Salt Works that lies west of the Intersection of the said Remington Road, August 11, 1906, signed “Ezra C. Brown, Comr Town of Ithaca.”
(August 11, 1906: Newman having applied and being “a person assessable for highway labor…,” a highway layout is ordered by the Town of Ithaca for Triphammer Road from the city line to Kline Road, approximating the current location of Iroquois Road; the same for Wyckoff Road from Cayuga Heights Road to Renwick Drive as “particularly described in the survey and map thereof made by C. L. Crandall August 31, 1906”; and the town gives an order in accord with application from Newman, Blood and the Remington Salt Company for layout of Remington Road in Renwick.)
Town of Ithaca. In the Matter of the Application to lay out a New Highway in the Town of Ithaca known as The Extension of the Wyckoff Road, August 31, 1906, signed “Ezra Brown Commissioner.”
Town of Ithaca. In the Matter of the Application to lay out a New Highway in the Town of Ithaca known as The Remington Road; and to discontinue that portion of the Road Running East from the Remington Salt Works that lies west of the Intersection of the said Remington Road, August 11, 1906, signed “Ezra C. Brown, Comr Town of Ithaca.”
(August 11, 1906: Newman having applied and being “a person assessable for highway labor…,” a highway layout is ordered by the Town of Ithaca for Triphammer Road from the city line to Kline Road, approximating the current location of Iroquois Road; the same for Wyckoff Road from Cayuga Heights Road to Renwick Drive as “particularly described in the survey and map thereof made by C. L. Crandall August 31, 1906”; and the town gives an order in accord with application from Newman, Blood and the Remington Salt Company for layout of Remington Road in Renwick.)
7. In the Matter of Cayuga Heights Road. Releases of Property Owners, Application, Written Consent of Town Board, and Order Laying Out and Altering Cayuga Heights Road, stamped “April 22, 1908.”
County of Tompkins, Town of Lansing. In the Matter of The Dedication of Lands for a Public Highway running from the north line of the Town of Ithaca northerly to the Lake Road, known as the Cayuga Heights Road.
(June 1906 indentures for right of way on Cayuga Heights Road between Town of Lansing and Caleb and Helen LaBarr on June 23, 1906, Josephine McKinney on June 13, and Charlotte Mood on June 16; appropriation having been made for construction and the State Engineer being ready to proceed, application is made by the town Board of Supervisors to the commissioner of highways in the Town of Lansing to lay out Cayuga Heights Road; town board dedication)
County of Tompkins, Town of Lansing. In the Matter of The Dedication of Lands for a Public Highway running from the north line of the Town of Ithaca northerly to the Lake Road, known as the Cayuga Heights Road.
(June 1906 indentures for right of way on Cayuga Heights Road between Town of Lansing and Caleb and Helen LaBarr on June 23, 1906, Josephine McKinney on June 13, and Charlotte Mood on June 16; appropriation having been made for construction and the State Engineer being ready to proceed, application is made by the town Board of Supervisors to the commissioner of highways in the Town of Lansing to lay out Cayuga Heights Road; town board dedication)
8. Application, Release of Damages and Consent of Town Board. County of Tompkins, Town of Ithaca.
In the Matter of “The dedication of lands for a new highway running from the north line of the corporation of the city of Ithaca to the south line of the town of Lansing,” now known as the Cayuga Heights Road.
In the Matter of The laying out of a new highway extending from the Cayuga Heights Road to the road running easterly from the Remington Salt Works, and the alteration of the road laid out by order dated December 26, 1905.
In the Matter of The alteration and extension of Highland Road from its intersection with the Kline Road northerly to its intersection with the Hanshaw Road.
(August 24, 1909: Cayuga Heights Road having been constructed in the Town of Ithaca as laid out first in 1902 and then altered by the State Engineer, Newman and Blood release the town for all damages on their land, notarized by C. Tracey Stagg; August 21, 1909: Cayuga Heights-Hanshaw’s Corners Road is by now constructed on lands released by the Newmans and Bloods on April 1908, Book 169 of Deeds, page 16; August 21, 1909: application to extend Highland from the line between the C. W. Williams and Louisa W. Barton properties to Hanshaw Road, also notarized by Stagg; October 9, 1909: Ithaca Town Board and clerk by signatures resolved to give consent to all these applications by Newman and Blood.)
In the Matter of “The dedication of lands for a new highway running from the north line of the corporation of the city of Ithaca to the south line of the town of Lansing,” now known as the Cayuga Heights Road.
In the Matter of The laying out of a new highway extending from the Cayuga Heights Road to the road running easterly from the Remington Salt Works, and the alteration of the road laid out by order dated December 26, 1905.
In the Matter of The alteration and extension of Highland Road from its intersection with the Kline Road northerly to its intersection with the Hanshaw Road.
(August 24, 1909: Cayuga Heights Road having been constructed in the Town of Ithaca as laid out first in 1902 and then altered by the State Engineer, Newman and Blood release the town for all damages on their land, notarized by C. Tracey Stagg; August 21, 1909: Cayuga Heights-Hanshaw’s Corners Road is by now constructed on lands released by the Newmans and Bloods on April 1908, Book 169 of Deeds, page 16; August 21, 1909: application to extend Highland from the line between the C. W. Williams and Louisa W. Barton properties to Hanshaw Road, also notarized by Stagg; October 9, 1909: Ithaca Town Board and clerk by signatures resolved to give consent to all these applications by Newman and Blood.)
9. County of Tompkins. Town of Ithaca. Order of Commissioner of Highways. In the Matter of The laying out of a new highway extending from Cayuga Heights Road, running easterly from the Remington Salt Works, now known as the Hanshaw Corners Road; and the alteration of the road laid out by order dated December 26, 1905, October 12, 1909, signed by Frank McPherson, “Commissioner of Highways, Town of Ithaca.”
(Order from Frank McPherson, Town of Ithaca Commissioner of Highways, to discontinue any portion of the road layout of 26 December 1905 that would have been Highland Road other than the portion of that layout which became part of the Cayuga Heights-Hanshaw Corners Road)
(Order from Frank McPherson, Town of Ithaca Commissioner of Highways, to discontinue any portion of the road layout of 26 December 1905 that would have been Highland Road other than the portion of that layout which became part of the Cayuga Heights-Hanshaw Corners Road)
10. Order of Commissioner of Highways. County of Tompkins. Town of Ithaca. In the Matter of The alteration and extension of Highland Road from its intersection with the Kline Road northerly to its intersection with the Hanshaw Road, October 12, 1909, signed by “Frank McPherson, Com’r of Highways, Town of Ithaca.”
(October 12, 1909: alteration of Highland Road near intersection with Hanshaw, continuing Renwick as recently constructed and “in use,” moving Highland and apparently separating what was a Hanshaw and Highland overlap from Renwick/Devon Road up to the current Hanshaw/Highland and Upland junction)
(October 12, 1909: alteration of Highland Road near intersection with Hanshaw, continuing Renwick as recently constructed and “in use,” moving Highland and apparently separating what was a Hanshaw and Highland overlap from Renwick/Devon Road up to the current Hanshaw/Highland and Upland junction)
11. Town of Ithaca. 1. Extension of Triphammer Road. 2. Klinewood Road. 3. “The Parkway.” 4. East and West Road (East from intersection of Highland and Hanshaw). 5. Short Connecting Road (Between The Parkway and the Triphammer Road.) CONSENT, ORDER, ETC., for laying out above named roads, also for discontinuance of portion of Kline Road and abandoned portion of Triphammer.
County of Tompkins. Town of Ithaca. In the Matter of the Application of Herbert C. Sheldon and Jared T. Newman for …, October 13, 1911 and signed by H. C. Sheldon and Jared T. Newman.
Damage release signed by the Sheldons and Newmans on October 13, 1911.
Order for the altering, laying out and discontinuing of the roads as described by Sheldon and Newman, May 15, 1912.
Order for, a layout, alteration and discontinuance order, May 15, 1912, signed by Frank McPherson.
Agreement by Newman with the Town of Ithaca that he will “gravel that part of the Triphammer Road which has not yet been graveled”; install ditches on the then north end of Triphammer and on what would be named East Upland with further agreement to repair any defective culverts for two years, June 3, 1912, signed by Jared T. Newman.
(October 13, 1911: Application to Frank McPherson, Town of Ithaca Superintendent of Highways from H. C. Sheldon and Jared T. Newman to alter and extend Triphammer from near the current location of Iroquois Road to which it was extended by Newman in 1906, then to Community Corners at Hanshaw Road; to lay out Klinewoods Road from Triphammer west through “the Kline Woods” to the north end of The Parkway and from there south to Hanshaw Road; to use a portion of Kline Road in order to lay out a “new or altered road to be known as The Parkway” from the Kline and Highland intersection north to “the Klinewood road”; to lay out what would become known as East Upland Road from Triphammer to the Hanshaw/Highland intersection; to lay out a new road connecting Triphammer with the Parkway, which assumedly would be Iroquois; and to discontinue all portions of Kline and Triphammer roads replaced by these alterations and by the new roads. Upland replaces Kline between The Parkway and Triphammer. Of note: This may be the first time the name “The Parkway” appears in a legal document. Also: a statement appears at end of the application, “All of said roads so to be laid out are now constructed and located substantially as indicated on the map herewith presented,” which is likely a thinly veiled defensive reference to the accusations leveled at Newman for using public funds for private purposes in the paving of Cayuga Heights, Wyckoff and Hanshaw Road that cost him his political career.)
County of Tompkins. Town of Ithaca. In the Matter of the Application of Herbert C. Sheldon and Jared T. Newman for …, October 13, 1911 and signed by H. C. Sheldon and Jared T. Newman.
Damage release signed by the Sheldons and Newmans on October 13, 1911.
Order for the altering, laying out and discontinuing of the roads as described by Sheldon and Newman, May 15, 1912.
Order for, a layout, alteration and discontinuance order, May 15, 1912, signed by Frank McPherson.
Agreement by Newman with the Town of Ithaca that he will “gravel that part of the Triphammer Road which has not yet been graveled”; install ditches on the then north end of Triphammer and on what would be named East Upland with further agreement to repair any defective culverts for two years, June 3, 1912, signed by Jared T. Newman.
(October 13, 1911: Application to Frank McPherson, Town of Ithaca Superintendent of Highways from H. C. Sheldon and Jared T. Newman to alter and extend Triphammer from near the current location of Iroquois Road to which it was extended by Newman in 1906, then to Community Corners at Hanshaw Road; to lay out Klinewoods Road from Triphammer west through “the Kline Woods” to the north end of The Parkway and from there south to Hanshaw Road; to use a portion of Kline Road in order to lay out a “new or altered road to be known as The Parkway” from the Kline and Highland intersection north to “the Klinewood road”; to lay out what would become known as East Upland Road from Triphammer to the Hanshaw/Highland intersection; to lay out a new road connecting Triphammer with the Parkway, which assumedly would be Iroquois; and to discontinue all portions of Kline and Triphammer roads replaced by these alterations and by the new roads. Upland replaces Kline between The Parkway and Triphammer. Of note: This may be the first time the name “The Parkway” appears in a legal document. Also: a statement appears at end of the application, “All of said roads so to be laid out are now constructed and located substantially as indicated on the map herewith presented,” which is likely a thinly veiled defensive reference to the accusations leveled at Newman for using public funds for private purposes in the paving of Cayuga Heights, Wyckoff and Hanshaw Road that cost him his political career.)
