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PAGE 14 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2011 ( Beelines Maps of Main, Elm Streets junction researched, 1854-1881 By MARYBELLE BEIGH Episcopal Church and sever- where Elm Street now enters CURRENT WESTFIELD. al small business buildings Main Street are an empty lot HISTORIAN along Main Street between and two buildings tha! have Preparatory to completing the Commons and Union a common wall, with the the history of the diners at Street. There also is\ no name T. Shaw. Behind these the comer of Elm and Main McClurg Street on any of is a building labeled Livery Streets in Westfield, a vari- the maps from 1833, 1844, Stable, and immediately to ety of old maps were studied 1848. or 1854. This 1854 the east of the two Shaw to identify the timing of Map has been digitized and buildings is the Law Office wheri Elm Street was is available on a CD fFOm of S.W. Mason. Next build- extended to Main Street and the Chautauqua County ing to the east of Mason's the property owners and Genealogical Society or Law Office was the old structures on that plot of CCGS. wood house and secondhand land in that area. The next map examined store of A.P. Tew. In the Patterson Library of the Village of Westfield is The final map discussed Map Cabinet, there are frag- found in the 1867 Atlas of in this frrst background iirti- ments of copies of very old Chautauqua County, and this cle about the Main and Elm maps ·• surveyed of the entire atlas of maps and Street location, is also of the Village of Westfield from information has also been Village of Westfield, found 1833, 1844,,and 1848. The digitized to CD by ,the in the 1881 Beers Atlas of 1833 map is labeled that the CCGS. The Westfield map Chautauqua County. As of survey was done for James shows an impressive busi- 188], the same large•b]ock McCiurgh by Hiram Haight. ness district along Main and of land, surrounded b/ Main, The maps may have been Portage Streets. Again, as in Union, First, and S. Portage L·opied from blueprints, as 1854, the J. McClurg proper- Streets, still includes the the background is jet black ty, plus Presbyterian Church, McClurg house and exten- with white lines and labels. Park, Episcopal Church. and sive property, which is now The copies were made in several business along Main owned by Mrs. C. Moore. 1943, courtesy Patterson Street, are all enclosed in a Along S. Portage, is the Library·. A copy in the ,single block by Main, Presbyterian Church, as well H1sturian's files of one por- Union, First, and S. Portage ·as the village par!;. from the tion of one map shows Main Streets. In the area where church around the corner Street. South Portage, Union Elm Street and the Main along Main Street ending at Street and First Street Diner are now located, there the Brewer block, which em: losing a block of land are a cabinet shop. a contains four address toea- that contain> mostly the Jas. dwelling labeled Mrs. M.M. tions fur stores and is three McClurg's Homestead, with Jones, and a law office prob- stories high. The two lots a public Square at the comer ably belonging to Abram which eventually become of Main and South Portage. ·Dixon. By 1867, the Brewer Elm Street have structures Also included on this map is Block Building that stood that are owned by T. Shaw Elm Street starting at First next to the park in the same and Mrs. M .M. Jones. The Street and then extending location as is currently, in two buildings to the east are. southward to and through 20 II, a telephone building. labeled Express Office and Second Street. The Patterson Library and M.C. Rice; and A.F. Tew A map of Chautauqua the McClurg Museum both still occupies the large house County, from 1854, includes have 1877 Maps of the next door. a village map of Westfield. Village of Westfield mount- The next two BeeLines As of 1854, Elm'Street still ed on walls, where they can will describe the streets, ends at First Street. Included be studied, and even pbo- buildings, and owners as in the same block as on the tographed, but no digitized found on Sanborn Maps of earlier map, are J. versions were located. The· 1886, 1891, 1896, 1902, McClurg's house and prop- Brewer Block and Episcopal 1907, 1912, and 1923, for erty, most of the area, plus Church building, much this same location of Main the Village Common, smaller than present, are and Elm Streets. The fourth Presbyterian Church, next to the park. In the space article in this series will ~ ~ the late) used for other purposes but B L E DIBBLE it was designed especially to FO~MER WESTFIELD count grape baskets. Mr. HISTORIAN, 1975·2006 Culver exhibited it to the First published October directors of the C. & N .E. II. 1984 Grape Uni(,n and without It's grape harvest time exception they all spoke again and we can't help highly of it. thinking about the great The Centennial Edition of changes that have taken The Grape Belt. Friday, place in the process through June 20. l902, mentioned the years. There was a time John B. Bristol as one of the when many grapes were wide awake farmers and shipped in small containers to markets all over the vineyardists of Chautauqua County. His vineyard was world. The manufacturing. three miles west of the vii- of those containers was an important iudustry in !age of Westfteld. His \!at- Westfield. Who remembers est venture\ was in the ba'>- the ba~ket factories? ket manufacturing busine~s The Westfield Republican which promised well. In the of May 10. 1893, had an same paper was an ad fur interesting story to tell of The Dean Brothers Au~tin B. Culver of this Company. Brocton. Portland place who had just invented and Westfield. N.Y., a little machine that \should Dealers in Grape Baskets. make him a fortune.\ It was Basket Labels, Spraying an automatic counting Machinery and Material, machine and was designed and Shippers of fancy >pecificaJJy to take the place Packed Chautauqua Table of a ~:ar derk in loading Grapes. grapes into railroad cars. It In May of !9B The Fruit looked like a little square Grower' Basket box wtth a dial and pointer Manuf:ktunng Co. had just on u11e side of it. It was completed a fme building on fixed in a car door and the the comer of West Pearl and growers placed their baskets N.Y.C. and St. L. Railroad upo11 it and the machine land and expected to employ made the register with per- from 15 to 20 persons dur- fect accuracy. It could be ing the seaso11. This was an industry the village wished abundant success. At about 10 o ·clock on April 27, 1915, the large lumber mill owned by D.N. Morse at 74 Spring Street, was destroyed by fue. How the fue started is a mystery. It was discovered by Charles Hanks. who was driving past in an auto. He at once turned in an alarm but. owing to the inflamma- ble contents and the wooden building and the high wind. the building was a mass of flames by the time the frre- men arrived, and all they coUld do was same the sur- rounding property. The fl.re- men succeeded in saving the basket factory o:wned by Mr. Morse, which wa~ but a few feet south of the mill. The loss is estimated at nearly $9.000.Tbe loss came to Mr. Morse at a particular! y busy time of the year. he having just received several large rush orders for 20-lb. bas- kets. This wa<. the l;.t,t mlll in the vicinity where the U\1. n- ers fumed out baskets from the log. Ma.riy other facto- ries bought their ba>ket stock in the flat. The Morse mill turned out large num- bers of grape baskets and Submitted jlhoto Maps of Westfield showing the junction of Main and Elm Streets identify the owners of the plot of land where Elm and Main Diner are located in 20 II, starting from the Holland Land Company in the first decade of the 1800s, from a title search of this property. This research was done to answer several histo- ry mystery questions about not only the history of diners in Westfield, but also some of the early business men and women and buildings, long gone. Marybelle Beigh is the currellt Public Historian for the Town and Village of Westfield. Her office is located at 3 East Main Street in Westfield. N.Y. 14787 - inside Parhiew lee Cream Parlor. Her scheduled office hours a;e Monday through Friday 9 ~o 11 a.m.; other hours by appointment. . Beigh can be reached at II' e s t f i e I d h i s t o r i - an@jclirpoint.net or by call- ing 326-2457 (office), 326- 6171 (home) or 397-9254 (eel/). . Submitted photo The photo shows the employees, with the sawmill and basket factory at the l~ft. in 1909. The house in the background was Dexter and May (Fitch) Morse's home, built in 1895. (This house is stiU at the NW corner of Spring St.-eat and Third Street. The mill in the phof\o is the one that burned in 1915, and even the \new\ 1916 mill no longer exists; replaced now by several houses.) Dexter Morse is front row, first person on left, wearing a vest, and seated. next to a stack of grape baskets. Note that the{e are no handles on the baskets. Handles were att~.hed by tbe IHI(~I'1 Qt t,M btskets. when they were filling/packing them with grapes for shipment. boxes for picking and ship- ping. as we II as large amounts of rough lumber. Mr. Morse stated that he did not know whether he would rebuild or not, but that if he did, the ii.ew mill would be smaller than the one burned. The mill gave employment to 20 men and >everal gi.rb and to about 50 men during the busiest season. A little notice in The Westfield Republican of July 28. 1915 stated that D .N. Morse s.tarted up his new basket factory Tuesday morning and it seemed good to once more hear the whis- tle blow. The fall weather condi- tions improved just in time to have a helpful effect on the grapes. The Welch Com pall)( sWted tb.e pQ.~;e a.t. $40 per ton. Armour Company did not buy gr.~pes that season but were busy .. bottling. The Chautauqua and Erie Grape Company sotd 20..tb. l:>as- kets at $30 per ton and 8-lb. baskets at l2 ill cents per basket. Marybelle Beigh is the current Public Historian for the Town and Village of Westfield. He.r office is located at 3 East Main Street in Westfield, N.Y. I4787 - inside Parkvit:w tee Cream Parlor. Her sr:heduled office hours are Monday through Friday 9 to II a.m.; other hours by appointment. Beigh can be reached at westfieldhistori- an@fairpoint.net or by call- ing 326-2457 !office), 326- 6171 (home) or 397-9254 (~ _______________ Lo_o_k_in_'_B_ac_k __________ ~ __ ~) Retyped by ELAINE G. second premium for matched COlE carriage horses at the Jamestown Reprinted from THE CHAIJlAUQUA fair. NEWSandSENTINELNEWS The cuhert near B. Cee'!> on TO: September 1887 Railroad Street, Sherman, was An exammation <~howed that begun. but work was delayed fo~ the sills on the wuth and we~t lad<. of water lime. ~ides of the tower on the· lfniver<~alist C'hun.:h m Sherman was badJy decayed and the spire 'was concisely out of position in consequence New -.iUs were put 10 and steps built. · · Frank Titus c;,f Sherman took Findley's Lake had enough money' subscribed to sink a ga:. well I .000 feet and the Ile~:essaJ) tools were ~ent for. · Thv~e intendwg tv put Ke 1n the w1nter were ad111sed to ~ecure sawdust while 1.t was ple11ty and coM little or 11othing. ln the Winter. when wanted, it would be hard to get. Henry Sperry was ,thEOwn from h1~ b~<:;de by the cross walk in front of the Dean House, Sherman. He was going ~ery fast and after rev viii ing in the ai.r for a rrunute or ~o. stuck in the road hurting one arm and shaki,pg him up .:onMderably. EIJ.t~> Waterman fuund in a hill of potatoes an old silver piece. [t was dated 1787, but was perfect- ly plain and legiMe .. The Land where it was found had not been plowed in 25 years. Sherman school tax would be about four mills on the dollar. $50 00 pay,able in monthly in::otallment:>. (,ten per ..:ent off for cash) would buy a life sc;holar- shil? in Jamestown. Business College. ' People looking after health or plea:.ure were advised to visit the Chautauqua region and be con- vinced that it was \The Midland Eden. of America.\ li'he a.ud.i.t of tbe Supe[i:ntendents 1>f the Poor in Chautauqua County fECil>m September 1885 ~o September 1886 ~howed $32<115 paid out for the poor in the county dwring that year. S.bQJ:tb:antt came into Vet1f gen- eral: use for business purposes a.ndi there was an increasing demand for young m.en and ladies who were capable stenog- rnpher:s.. TBURSI Wes TheW Rotary ( Students Septembe schools i ·trtct. The: by mem Vocatiom Broet() Bradle: a senior ~umulati' has reg1 honor ro fourth i1 received York Of Comptrol junior y given in: hard worl cess in ac and civic lnducu National eighth g1 been a Nationa1 since bei1 sopbomc receive Regents .. 2012. In addi Bradley Brocton He hasp varsity f( and bl Selected all-stars 1 fresbmai years, he able men year. h year. B WDOE:N Week fo eighth g1 Most Im1 jayvee ba The s' Darla Jot a younge1 to atte Commu1 Eventual to beco1 · StateTro Cb1 Ce1 Claire receive Regents • graduate excellin -coursewc awarde<l award : Literary ,
