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  History of Penn Yan, New York, USA

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(Bluff Point)

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• The first frame dwelling at Penn Yan was built in 1799.
  
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• 1823 - The village of Penn Yan became the county seat in 1823, when Yates county was created.
  
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• Penn Yan was incorporated in 1833.
  
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• 1836 - Penn Yan
  Penn Yan, founded by Mr. Abraham Waggener, incorporated 29th April, 1833; the shire town about half a mile below the foot of the east arm of Crooked Lake upon a pleasant plain, and on the outlet, partly in the town of Benton, contains a new court house of brick, a prison of stone, a fire-proof...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Penn Yan
  Penn Yan, a thriving post-village of Milo township, capital of Yates county, New York, on the outlet of Crooked lake, and on the Canandaigua and Elmira railroad, 192 miles W. from Albany, and 43 miles N. by W. from Elmira. The Crooked Lake canal, connecting the Crooked with Seneca lake, passes...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1892 - Penn Yan
  n the northern portion of township No. 7, of the first range, better and more commonly known as the town of Milo, at a point near and about the foot of Ogoyago, or Crooked Lake, where the waters find an outlet through a narrow channel, and eventually discharge into Seneca Lake, nature provided a...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1895 - SAILBOAT CAPSIZED. PERRY TUFFT, HIS WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN DROWN IN LAKE KENKA.
  Penn Yan, N.Y., July 10. - On Lake Kenka yesterday PERRY TUFFT, his wife and three children lost their lives by the capsizing of a sailboat. When MR. TUFFT and his family started they were advised not to go as the lake was rough. Not heeding the advice they started in a small boat with a "mutton...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Penn Yan
  Penn Yan, a post-village, capital of Yates co., N.Y., is situated at the outlet and northern end of Keuka Lake, on the Northern Central Railroad, 45 miles N. by W. of Elmira, and 53 miles S.E. of Rochester. It is £ in Benton township and mostly in Milo. Steamboats ply daily between this place and...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Knapp House, Pen Yan, N.Y.
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  Main Street looking North from Jacob Street
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  The Penn Yan Academy
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• 1906
  Penn Yan', a post-village, capital of Yates co., N.Y., is situated at the outlet and northern end of Keuka Lake, on the Northern Central and the New York Central and Hudson River Rs., 45 miles N. by W. of Elmira. It has manufactures of iron, tacks, fruitbaskets, and wine, and is the seat of Penn...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  The Benham House
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  Along the Dock
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  Keuka College
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  N.Y.C. R.R. Depot, 1908
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  Keuka Club
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  County Bldgs, Penn Yan, N.Y.
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  Hatmaker Hospital, 1912
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  Post Office
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  The Birkett Mills
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  Catholic Church
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• In 1921 the Penn Yan Boat Company was founded by German immigrant Charles A. Herrman.
  
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  M.E. Church, 1926
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  Main Street, Penn Yan, N.Y.
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  Garrett Memorial Chapel, Bluff Point, 1932
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•  1949 - Gas Explosion Injures Plumber
  Methodist Church Slightly Damaged
  
  Lew Blakeslee of 231 Lake street, Penn Yan, was seriously injured at 11 a. m. Friday, March 18, in a gas boiler explosion.
  
  Burned badly about the face, hands and arms, he was given emergency treatment at the Foster-Hatch Medical group by Dr. John L. Shultz...Read MORE...