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History of Jefferson County

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CHAMPION – is represented by the Congregationalist Church, the first church in the County. Dedicated on December 25, 1816, they also rang the bell that had been donated by General Henry Champion. This structure was purchased in 1912 by the Champion Grange #18.

JEFFERSON COUNTY COURT HOUSE- The first term (of record) of the County Court was the second Tuesday of May in 1807 at the schoolhouse south of Jonathan Cowan’s mill in the Village of Watertown. In 1809, the court moved to a new court house on land donated by Henry Coffeen. Burning in 1821, it was replaced by a stone structure that fell in such disrepair it had to be replaced within forty years. Construction of the new court house was started in 1861 and completed in 1862. ( From information compiled by Benjamin Cobb, Jefferson County Historian, June 2003).

RUTLAND- The Eddy Homestead represents Rutland. Enoch Eddy arrived in 1799 and this home was built in 1847 and has never been out of possession of the Eddy family.

WATERTOWN- Henry Coffeen arrived in Watertown in 1800. He built his first home on the north side of the American Corner and in 1803 laid out a road from this corner across his land to the Black river where he and Andrew Edmunds bridged the river at the present site of the Court Street bridge.

ELLLISBURG- The Geddingsville Bridge was built in 1870 in the Town of Ellisburg. It was one of very few covered bridges in Jefferson County. It was a “pony truss” over Sandy Creek. The bridge collapsed in 1910.

ADAMS- The Adams Collegiate Institute was establised in 1855. Before it was fully organized General Solon D. Hungerford offered a large endowment and the Basswood Hotel by the Railroad Station that was built by Sidney Mendell. The school was renamed the “Hungerford Collegiate Institute” on March 24, 1864.

LORRAINE- Lorraine was the site of the Old Red House, an Underground Railroad Station, built in 1824.

BROWNVILLE- General Jacob brown began to build his home in Brownville in 1811, the war of 1812 intervened and the mansion was not furnished until 1814.

ROSWELL P. FLOWER MANSION –Roswell P. Flower, a native of Jefferson County, became a prominent congressman and later, in 1892, the governor of New York State. The big white house at 175 Arsenal Street originally was the home of Flower’s noted father-in-law Norris W. Woodruff. Mr. Woodruff replaced the original stone house with a more pretentious frame house about 1829. This became the nucleus of the Flower mansion for Governor Flower greatly expanded and improved it after the came into possession of the property. This home was later used as the Jefferson County Office Building on Arsenal Street. The house was razed in 1963 to made room for the present 7 story portion of the County Office Building.

F. W. WOOLWORTH BIRTHPLACE 1852 – Rodman was the birthplace of F. W. Woolworth, the five and dime mogul. A modest farm house, situated off Zoar Road, on a little dead end road amidst the rolling landscape of Rutland Hills in the town of Rodman, was Frank’s birthplace. The Woolworth family moved to Great Bend when Frank was seven years old. (Taken from http://watertown-ny.gov/history/woolworth.html

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