Free Hollow to Forest Home

Introduction
Chapter 1- The Early History of Free Hollow
Chapter 2 – Industry and Commerce in Forest Home
Chapter 3 – Free Hollow to Forest Home
References
Appendix

References

  1. Abt, Henry E., Ithaca, Ross W. Kellogg, Ithaca, NY, 1926.
  2. Bell, Barbara, Glance Backward, Watkins Glen, 1970.
  3. Benjamin, Asher, The American Builder’s Companion, Dover Publications Inc., New York, 1969.
  4. Bishop, Morris, A History of Cornell, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1962.
  5. Bouldin, Cynthia, interviews and memoranda, 1973.
  6. Bush, Grace, inverviews and memoranda, 1973.
  7. Colman, Gould P., Education and Agriculture, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1963.
  8. Day, Charles, Report of the Semi-Centennial (Jubilee and Reunion of the Half Century Club of Tompkins County. 9.8.1881), Andrus and Church, Ithaca, NY, 1881.
  9. Drake, Nellie, History of Forest Home in the Early Days. From a report given to the Forest Home Sewing Circle. Copied from the minutes by Grace Bush. Undated.
  10. Edwards, Charlotte, Recollections of Forest Home in the Early Days. From a report to the Forest Home Sewing Circle. Copied from the minutes by Grace Bush. Undated.
  11. Edwards, Walter W., Reminiscences of Forest Home, Cornell University Archives, Collection of Regional History, 1946-49, number 552 Tompkins County. Undated.
  12. Force, Albert, The Story of Free Hollow, Ithaca, NY. Undated.
  13. Force, Albert, Oral History Interview with Gould Colman, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, January and March 1967.
  14. Force, Albert, The Town of Ithaca, typed manuscript. Undated.
  15. Forest Home Chapel – Background and Development, 50th Anniversary Booklet, Ithaca, NY, 1965.
  16. Forest Home Embroidery Club, minutes, 1915 to 1973.
  17. Forest Home Sewing Circle, excerpts from the minutes of June 26, 1941. Copied by Grace Bush.
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  19. Girl Scout Troop 8 of Forest Home, Heritage Hike Project, March 1961.
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    Ithaca Journal and Advertiser, September 26, 1849.
  26. McCurdy, Adda and Clarence, interviews and memoranda, 1973.
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  43. Burr, David H., Map of Tompkins County, publ. by Surveyor General William P. Stone, Ithaca, NY, 1833.
  44. Burr, David H., An Atlas of the State of New York. A Map of Several Counties (Simeon DeWitt, Surveyor General), publ. by D. H. Burr, New York, 1829. “Republished at Ithaca, NY, by Stone and Clark with corrections and improvements, 1841.”
  45. Tompkins County Map of 1853.
  46. New Topographical Atlas of Tompkins County, New York, Stone and Stewart, Philadelphia, 1866.
  47. Map of Forest Home, drawn by Mr. Hartman of Buildings and Properties, Cornell University. Undated, probably late 1920’s or early 1930’s.
  48. Map of Free Hollow drawn by Albert Force, Ithaca, NY. Undated.
  49. Maps of Free Hollow and Forest Home drawn by Elsie little, Ithaca, NY. Undated.

Also interviews with and/or correspondence from almost all present and many former Forest Home residents.


Introduction
Chapter 1- The Early History of Free Hollow
Chapter 2 – Industry and Commerce in Forest Home
Chapter 3 – Free Hollow to Forest Home
References
Appendix


© 1974 Liese Price Bronfenbrenner, reprinted with permission