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The obituary of Alfred Cary, published in the Batavia Republic-Advocate on 28 September 1858. Cary died on 17 September 1858 at the age of 79. The obituary was most likely written by Cary's brother Trumbull, who was an attorney in Batavia at the time.
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| An excerpt from the last will and testament of Alfred Cary, written days before he died in 1858. He stipulated that after his debts and funeral expenses were paid, the balance of his estate was to be liquidated by his executors to support his beneficiary, primarily the Episcopal Church and the Cary Collegiate Seminary.
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| The liquidation of Cary's lot 16 in Oakfield. Lot 16 was a large tract of land 2 miles on a side, comprising the lower left quadrant of the current village. Eventually, Webber Avenue, Stevens Street, the West Shore Railroad, and components of the US Gypsum plant and Tanner's cannery would be built on lot 16. This deed conveys the property on 21 July 1859 from Alfred Cary's estate to James W. Whitman, stone mason living in Oakfield.
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| Alfred Cary's final residence as it appears today on Webber Avenue. At one time, the house was located at 4 South Main Street, where the Methodist Church is now. Originally, the house had matching entrances at bays one and four, but the entrance at bay one has been removed. There were multiple chimneys on the roofline back in the day.
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An 1836 map of Genesee County, from Thomas Gordon's Gazetteer of the State of New York, published in Philadelphia. Note that the town of Oakfield has not yet been broken off from Elba (that would happen in 1842) and that Caryville is on the map.
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| A perspective drawing of the Indian mound about a mile west of the village of Oakfield. From Harper's Magazine, May 1860.
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| An overhead view of the Indian mound in Oakfield. From Harper's Magazine, May 1860.
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| The cover of the 1892 tax assessment ledger for the town of Oakfield.
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The signatures of the Oakfield town assessors in the 1892 tax assessment ledger, as witnessed by the justice of the peace. The accessors were John Sparling Jr., Charles B. Avery, and M.S. Dunlap. The justice of the peace was B.F. Hawes, an attorney in Oakfield at the time.
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| The signatures of the Genesee County Supervisors tasking Levi Decker, Oakfield Town tax collector, to collect taxes according to the assessments in the 1892 tax book. It looks like the overseers of the poor did not get a red cent that year.
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| The demolished English Mill, once used to process gypsum in Oakfield. I believe this mill was acquired by US Gypsum in the early 1900's and was deemed obsolete when the Judge Road facility was built in 1912.
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| US Gypsum on Judge Road as in appeared in the 1930s.
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The cover of Mines Magazine in December 1957. The issue contained an article on the US Gypsum Company. The picture is from a mine in Oakfield.
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| Detail of the picture of two persons in the mine.
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| Construction in Oakfield in the early 1900s. It is unknown if the construction is of a barn, or perhaps a gypsum or canning facility. From an unused postcard.
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| The Arnold House on Main Street, about 1910. Next door is H.G. Saxton's barber shop on the first floor of the Odd Fellows Hall.
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Looking south from Triangle Park at South Main on the left and South Pearl on the right. The house is 18 South Main St.
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| Looking north on North Main St. about 1910. The handrails of the Presbyterian Church may be seen right-center. The house at the immediate right is 68 North Main St, also pictured in Volume 6 of the Old Oakfield photos.
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| Looking east on Bennett Avenue about 1930.
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| Looking west on Maple Avenue about 1910. The houses are 55, 57, 59, and 61 Maple Avenue. They are across the street from St. Cecilia's church and cemetery.
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The Methodist Episcopal Parsonage at 6 South Main Street, about 1910. The original Oakfield log school house was on this location from 1828 until about 1878. Today the building is a two family residence.
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| The Methodist parsonage and church on South Main Street about 1910.
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| The Presbyterian Church (center) on North Main circa 1910. The house at the immediate right, built in 1850, is located at 1 Bennett Avenue.
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| The school on Webber Avenue, circa 1910.
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Joe DeFilippo at his shoe shop on Water Street in the early 1960s. The building is gone now.
Photo courtesy of the Oakfield Historical Society.
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| Railroad inspectors at the Oakfield depot in 1915. They were affiliated with the New York Central and Hudson River railroad.
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| G. W. Haxton calendar from 1916. Haxton's succeeded A.J. Tanner's as the cannery in Oakfield.
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| Label for Haxton's apple sauce, circa 1950.
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Haxton's beet label, circa 1950.
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| A Bates potting soil container from the 1940s. Bates Flowers was at 50 Drake St. from 1916-1944 when it was bought out by Warner's Flowers. Warner's Flowers and Gift Shop is still in business and is now on Main Street.
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| Frey Brothers Ford dealership matchbook cover from 1949.
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| The Boulder Park elephant with wicker basket on the popular carousel ride at Indian Falls, circa 1960. Not really an Oakfield item, but we old-timers from Oakfield all enjoyed the ride when we were new-timers.
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