Greening Up
As I hiking this morning, I noticed how green the grass and how much trees had budded up along the way.
Taken on Sunday April 11, 2021 at Five Rivers Environmental Education Center.Why ads? π€ / Privacy Policy π³
As I hiking this morning, I noticed how green the grass and how much trees had budded up along the way.
Taken on Sunday April 11, 2021 at Five Rivers Environmental Education Center.Freeville was in the former Central New York Military Tract. It was first settled by Daniel White, a Revolutionary War soldier who cleared land along Fall Creek and built a cabin there around 1798; by 1802 White had established a grist mill at the site.
In the early 1870s, Freeville was transformed from a quiet mill town into an important regional railroad junction when the Southern Central Railroad and the Utica, Ithaca & Elmira Railroad (acquired in 1884 by the newly created Elmira, Cortland and Northern Railroad) extended their lines through the village. Both lines were acquired in the mid-1890s by the Lehigh Valley Railroad, which maintained passenger service at Freeville through the 1930s and freight service until the 1970s.
The Village of Freeville was incorporated in 1887.
As the Freeville tourist bureau likes to point out, their village is the the only incorporated municipality in the nation with the name Freeville.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeville,_New_York
It didn't originally go straight up the hill but was more windy.
More green downtown!
Taken on Monday April 17, 2017 at Alfred E. Smith Building.