Fall Creek Milling Company records
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Content Description
Records from two mills, one in Binghamton and one in Ithaca, NY. Material includes sales receipts, account books, letter books, cash books, order and shipping books.
Dates
- 1862 - 1925
Creator
- Fall Creek Milling Company (Ithaca, N.Y.) (Organization)
Biographical / Historical
The Fall Creek Milling Company was founded in the 1850's. Water to the mill was supplied by "Ezra's Tunnel," a 200 foot long waterway carved through the stone cliff on the north side of the gorge. Owners (and company name) went from being Pope, Way and Company to Pope, Way and Rowe to Pope, Way, Hull and Rowe to Strong, Rowe and Hull to Pope, Rowe and Strong to Strong, Hull and Company to A.M. Hull to finally becoming the Fall Creek Milling Company in Ithaca. The property was sold to Cornell University in 1926.
Extent
4 cubic feet.
54 volumes.
Language of Materials
English
Processing Information
Collection 39L was orginaly part of 39A. It has been separated into it's own collection.
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu