Free Hollow to Forest Home
Introduction
Chapter 1- The Early History of Free Hollow
Chapter 2 – Industry and Commerce in Forest Home
Chapter 3 – Free Hollow to Forest Home
References
Appendix
References
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- Bell, Barbara, Glance Backward, Watkins Glen, 1970.
- Benjamin, Asher, The American Builder’s Companion, Dover Publications Inc., New York, 1969.
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- Colman, Gould P., Education and Agriculture, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1963.
- Day, Charles, Report of the Semi-Centennial (Jubilee and Reunion of the Half Century Club of Tompkins County. 9.8.1881), Andrus and Church, Ithaca, NY, 1881.
- Drake, Nellie, History of Forest Home in the Early Days. From a report given to the Forest Home Sewing Circle. Copied from the minutes by Grace Bush. Undated.
- Edwards, Charlotte, Recollections of Forest Home in the Early Days. From a report to the Forest Home Sewing Circle. Copied from the minutes by Grace Bush. Undated.
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- Forest Home Chapel – Background and Development, 50th Anniversary Booklet, Ithaca, NY, 1965.
- Forest Home Embroidery Club, minutes, 1915 to 1973.
- Forest Home Sewing Circle, excerpts from the minutes of June 26, 1941. Copied by Grace Bush.
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- Girl Scout Troop 8 of Forest Home, Heritage Hike Project, March 1961.
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Ithaca Journal News, December 1916.
Ithaca Daily Journal, June 3 and August 10, 1901; September 11, 1894; December 29, 1893.
Ithaca Journal and Advertiser, September 26, 1849. - McCurdy, Adda and Clarence, interviews and memoranda, 1973.
- McKinney, Mary, Forest Home, an article from the Ithaca Journal, undated, but probably December 1916. (Also appears as a typed manuscript in the same file folder as no. 11.)
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- Cornell University Faculty Directories through 1972-73.
- Obituaries and Necrology of the Cornell Faculty, A4rchives, Olin Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
- Tompkins County Deed Records, Tompkins County Court House, Ithaca, NY.
- Burr, David H., Map of Tompkins County, publ. by Surveyor General William P. Stone, Ithaca, NY, 1833.
- Burr, David H., An Atlas of the State of New York. A Map of Several Counties (Simeon DeWitt, Surveyor General), publ. by D. H. Burr, New York, 1829. “Republished at Ithaca, NY, by Stone and Clark with corrections and improvements, 1841.”
- Tompkins County Map of 1853.
- New Topographical Atlas of Tompkins County, New York, Stone and Stewart, Philadelphia, 1866.
- Map of Forest Home, drawn by Mr. Hartman of Buildings and Properties, Cornell University. Undated, probably late 1920’s or early 1930’s.
- Map of Free Hollow drawn by Albert Force, Ithaca, NY. Undated.
- Maps of Free Hollow and Forest Home drawn by Elsie little, Ithaca, NY. Undated.
Also interviews with and/or correspondence from almost all present and many former Forest Home residents.
Introduction
Chapter 1- The Early History of Free Hollow
Chapter 2 – Industry and Commerce in Forest Home
Chapter 3 – Free Hollow to Forest Home
References
Appendix
© 1974 Liese Price Bronfenbrenner, reprinted with permission