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RAILROAD STREET AND THE TRAIN DEPOT
1888:
The Railroad Depot
The Railroad Depot in Adams on current Railroad Street
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up behind the old Brick Hotel. around 1980
1980:
The railroad depot, now abandoned, was once the center of people coming and going. You could observe the old road leading to it.
Several foundations can be found in this area.
Below, 1980
Below, 1980
Several foundations can be found in this area
BELOW 1980,
View of the Agway as seen from the Railroad Depot which burned
BELOW, 1980
The old Brick Hotel which has since burned. It was
around this same aea that the
Hungerford Collegiate Institute was originally located.
BELOW 1980:
Where the present house and garage are was once the Adams Collegiate
Institute and then changed to the Hungerford Collegiate Institute.
Across the tracks and the the right was once the Jefferson Spring. The
Institute was built first as a hotel in the hopes that it would attract
business but it never opened
To the LEFT of the brick Hotel, the last site on the
left is where Captain Sidney Mendell, in 1859,
began construction of a three-story wooden building by the depot, called
the Basswood Hotel.
There is a mineral springs in this area - where Dairylea was located in
1980 - and these springs
brought in people. But for lack of finances, he sold it to Solon D Hungerford
who finished it and used it
for the Hungerford Collegiate Institute which opened Spegtember 8 1864.
It was originally incorporated
under the Adams Collegiate Institute by the Regents April 22 1855, but
not fully organized. S D Hungerford
changed the name to Hungerford Collegiate Institiute March 24 1864. The
building burned January 29 1868
and a new one built on Institute Streetand opened August 28 1870. During
the time when this new building
was not in use due to its being in debt, school was held in the Cooper
Block which in 1980 , was the Dwight Block,
until it too burned. After that, the building on Institute Street was
re-acquired and put back into use
BELOW: Image from the 1909 Firemens' Souvenier Book:
BELOW: Image from the 2005 Jefferson Co Journal Commemorative Publication:
Railroad Street, Parade by Agway
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