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Borodino Methodist Episcopal Church -
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174, (Borodino) Spafford, 1834
 This church was built in 1833-34 as a Methodist
Episcopal Chapel on Genesee Street, Skaneateles. In 1853, the
Methodists in the Borodino area, who had incorporated in 1824 as the
Borodino Methodist Church, purchased the Route 174 site and the
chapel. After 1860 the church was moved by pieces to the new site,
where it was enlarged and a belfry added. Later it was moved to a
high foundation at the rear of the building lot.
 The
former Legg house on East Lake Road near the
"four corners" in Borodino. Colonel William W. Legg, born 1814,
died 1893. Politically Legg was a Whig, and was nominated sheriff on
the Know-Nothing ticket. When Civil War broke out, he joined the
Republican Party, giving it his full support. He rose to the rank of
Brigadier General; he was offered the position of Colonel, but declined
for family health reasons. Instead he served his town as Town Supervisor
and was appointed Postmaster for both Spafford Corners and Borodino.
Colonel Legg owned a blacksmith shop here and was the first wagon maker
having in his employ, John Babcock, Solomon Sprague, Seymour Wamer, and
Simeon Morchell.
Source: "Onondaga's Centennial",
Vol.
I, pp. 904-922, edited by Dwight H. Bruce.Published by Boston History
Co., 1896. Photo courtesy of Susan Henricksen
The Grange Hall, former Town Hall,
Route
41, Borodino, 1830
In 1829, a group of citizens organized the First
Religious Society of Borodino. The society constructed this building
in 1830 The beams are 12" by 14" and held together with
wooden pegs. The society abandoned the property sometime around 1850.
In 1919 Borodino Grange Number 1272 purchased the building.
More
information on SAHS web page:
HISTORY OF
BORODINO (by Jan Beaman) 1700s
Borodino is a small hamlet located eight miles south of Skaneateles along
the east side of Skaneateles Lake. The land was originally heavy forest
used by the Onondaga, Cayuga and the Seneca Indians for gatherings and
hunting expeditions. The 1792 Revolutionary War Military Tract no. 88 and
89 represent Borodino. Lot number 88 was given to Philip Fields and lot
number 89 was given to Frederick Wybert, neither of whom settled on their
land.
In 1794, Onondaga became the 21st of 62 New York State counties. The town
of Marcellus was also founded in 1794. Borodino originally belonged to the
town of Marcellus. The pioneers of Borodino were New Englanders who were
mostly English and from North-River counties who were Dutch, Scotch,
Protestant Irish, French and Canadian. The land was covered by hemlock,
beech, maple and pine trees. The soil was chiefly sandy and gravelly loam.
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HISTORY OF SPAFFORD (Beuchamp, 1908)
Spafford had its name from Horatio Gates Spafford, author of
an early gazetteer of the state, a man who had opinions and expressed them.
It was set off April 8, 1811, from several towns. Marcellus gave it
thirteen lots, Sempronius eight, and Tully sixteen. The town if about
ten miles long and three broad, occupying the ridge between two lakes and
their valleys. With Skaneateles lake on one side, and Otisco lake on
the other, it has the longest lake front of any town here, and abounds in
picturesque ravines and falls. Ripley hill is not as high as Fabius
hill, but commands a finer view. >More...
HISTORY OF SPAFFORD 2 (Clark, Stoddard and Babcock,
1849)
SPAFFORD - was erected into a town in 1811, from portions of
the townships of Sempronius, Marcellus and Tully. The boundaries have
since been materially altered. At present, it is comprised of eight
lots lying east of Skaneateles Lake, being part of the original township of
Sempronius; sixteen lots of the north-west part of the township of Tully,
and thirteen lots of the south part of the township of Marcellus. It
is about ten miles long by three broad, running from north-west to
south-east. This town received its name from Horatio Gates Spafford,
L.L.D., author of the Gazetteer of New York. The first settler within
the present limits of the town, was Gilbert Palmer, who located himself on
lot seventy-six, township of Marcellus, in the fall of 1794. He was a
Revolutionary soldier, and served for the lot on which he settled. He
came from Duchess or Westchester County, and died about...1988. >More...
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HISTORY OF
ONONDAGA COUNTY, BY W.W. CLAYTON, 1878
Spafford, Borodino,
Samuel H. Stanton, Spafford
Corners, Otisco, Otisco Village, Amber
ADDED 5/14/06
Moon Hill
Road, 1900, Otisco Valley News
ADDED 5/1/06, FROM SPAFFORD
HISTORIAN:
Can you identify the location of this
1928 photo of Otisco Lake?
HORATIO GATES SPAFFORD
Horatio Gates
Spafford
Spafford
visits Spafford,
by Barbara Shoemaker
Letter
to Horatio Spafford from Thomas Jefferson
MAPS
1874
Onondaga County Atlas, by Bill Hecht, 2004
Index of maps by Bill Hecht
1868 Otisco Lake map, by
Roger Trendowski (2003)
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How Borodino got it's name...
The Battle of Borodino
Pronunciation: [burudyinô´] (key)
'village, central European Russia, c.70 mi (110 km) W of Moscow.
It was the site, on Sept. 7, 1812, of a battle between
Napoleon's Grande Armée and Gen. Mikhail Kutuzov's Russian forces
defending Moscow. The battle, which cost some 108,000 casualties, is
described in Tolstoy's War and Peace. Napoleon entered Moscow on Sept. 14
after severely battering but not totally defeating the Russians.'
Source: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition Copyright ©1993,
Columbia University Press.
The Battle of Borodino On September 7, 1812, Napoleon attacked the Russian Army in Borodino. He
decided to head in with a series of frontal attacks which proved to be
costly errors. The Russian army was 111,000 men strong along with 7000
Cossacks and 640 guns. Even as the Russians closed in on Borodino the
French kept applying pressure.
1812: Napoleon's Russian Campaign,
Richard K. Riehn, 1990
From the
Historian's Desk
Memoir of Emma Anthony Becker, 1941
The Story of the
Steamboats on Skaneateles Lake, Charles B. Cooper, 1970
(PDF)
The
Berry Letters by Bill Breihan
from CNY Geneological Society's
Tree Talks 2004
"The
Forgotten Villages of Onondaga County", published by the
Post-Standard, 1933
Story
of the "Puddin' Mill"
"Downtown Borodino"
in the1880's
Photos of Borodino
Spafford Historian,
Barbara Shoemaker
Phone 315-636-7700 or 607-749-2086
EXTERNAL RESOURCES
NEW RESOURCES
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Borodino.html
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~springport/pictures.html
http://www.digital-librarian.com/skaneateles.html
LOCAL HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATIONS
LOCAL GENEALOGY
ASSOCIATIONS
FROM ROOTSWEB
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Town of Spafford
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~ Cemeteries, Business 1874, Census 1840,
Agricultural Statistics of Olmsted Farms, Bounty Land, People, Maps,
Revolutionary War Soldiers
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History
of the town of Scott
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History
of Otisco
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History
of Onondaga County
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Cemeteries
in Borodino - list of inscriptions (Beuchamp)
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Cemeteries
in SPAFFORD
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Names
appearing on the 1874 Sweet Map for Town of Spafford (includes
Borodino)
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History
of Spafford: Source: Onondaga's Centennial, Vol. I, pp
904-922. Edited by Dwight H. Bruce and published by
Boston History Co., 1896.
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SOURCES FOR RESEARCH
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