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Post by jon hynes on Apr 12, 2010 0:06:41 GMT -5
CDV Photo 7 Clark Sisters
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Post by jon hynes on Apr 12, 2010 0:13:45 GMT -5
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Post by jon hynes on Apr 12, 2010 0:15:19 GMT -5
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Post by jon hynes on Apr 12, 2010 0:24:21 GMT -5
Jordan Bros Of Utica Tinted Tintype Of Young Girl
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Post by fiona on Apr 16, 2010 16:25:43 GMT -5
Jon: Thank you so much for these wonderful photographs! They add so much more beauty, realism and definition to the story. I have been over at the OCHS trying to find photos of the "Millers", Rutger B and his family. The research assistants there are bending over backwards to help me. I am going back tomorrow; hopefully they will have something for me.
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Post by jon hynes on Apr 17, 2010 0:36:50 GMT -5
Miss Billie Hargrave 1895
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Post by fiona on Apr 17, 2010 16:11:39 GMT -5
I went to the OCHS and found a lot of items on Post Street, the "colored section" in Utica, from the 1850's to about 1910. I am introducing a character into the story, Jacob - Isreal Titus, a 12 year old stable hand, who lives on Post street. Unfortunatly, I do not have a scanner to scan them in. I am sending you a packet, Jon and also to you, Dave. This way you will be familiar with it. There is very little on the net about Old Post Street in Utica. Let's change that!
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Post by Clipper on Apr 19, 2010 15:10:23 GMT -5
Where was post street fiona?
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Post by WestmoGuy on Apr 19, 2010 16:53:50 GMT -5
There's a Post Street off Charlotte between Bleecker and Elizabeth Clipper.
I seem somehow to remember a street that name over off Oriskany Street between the Arterial Bridge and Schuyler Street. There used to be some streets near the Old Oriskany Street exit before they redid all that. Not sure if that's it.
Why I remember that stuff, beats the hell outta me LOL
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Post by dgriffin on Apr 19, 2010 17:56:16 GMT -5
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Post by Clipper on Apr 19, 2010 18:13:44 GMT -5
I was aware of a the post street that you speak of Westomguy. That is why I was curious as to whether that was the all inclusive black section at the time and if it is the same area that Fiona describes. It is actually more like and alley, and only a few short yards long. When I was a kid, the major portion of the black population was between Liberty St. and Whitesboro St. and from Washington St to Potter St, which was where the Potter St School was built. Potter St School is the building that is the last building on Whitesboro St before the embankment for the Arterial ramps. I am not mistaken, the politically contested Insight House is there now. The Post St. that you are speaking of is surrounded by buildings built too late to have been there in the late 1800's.
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Post by jon hynes on Apr 19, 2010 18:29:48 GMT -5
1883
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Post by Clipper on Apr 19, 2010 23:16:02 GMT -5
Thanks Jon. It does look like it was a mainly residential section at that time with a chapel on Elizabeth St and names on the rest of the buildings shown, that I have to think were residences. When I worked at the OD, Burnet St came from Bleecker to Jay or Oriskany next to our garage which was located on the SW corner of John and Jay across from the OD. I cannot remember it going all the way to Elizabeth St though. Does it still go through to Elizabeth or just from Jay to Bleecker? Post Street was definitely a street with homes on it, rather than the alley it became in later years when the area became commercial.
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Post by jon hynes on Apr 20, 2010 11:17:25 GMT -5
Charles henry, who keeps a saloon on Post street, was charged with selling liquor on Sunday. The case was adjourned till Friday. The same individual paid the costs, $2.50, on the charge of petty larceny, and gave back a glove which he had taken from George Clark as security for the payment of a debt.
January 17, 1877 - Utica Morning Herald
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Post by jon hynes on Apr 20, 2010 11:20:33 GMT -5
Police Business - Four Post street denizens paid the costs for creating a disturbance yesterday. Two similar cases are on - William Benedict, No 4, and the last of the third ward burglars, was arrested about three miles from Waterville, yesterday, and brought to jail in this city, by Officers Carver and Latham. Benedict has attained some notoriety both by his professions in religious meetings, and his bad conduct while drunk. The hop region is said to be boiling, the season being nearly over and drunken men are sleeping by the roadside. There was a general scattering among many of the hop pickers as the officers made their appearances, each thinking that he was the man wanted.
September 5, 1877 - Utica Morning Herald
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