Chemung County New York History + Directory

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A History of the Valley and County of
Chemung (New York)
By Ashburn Towner, 1892
1,400 pages, Indexed, Illustrated, Searchable
Bonus Book -
Gazetteer and Business Directory
Of Chemung and Schuyler Counties
1868-1869
By Hamilton Child, 1868
560 pages, Illustrated, Searchable
Bonus Book -
Outline History of Tioga and Bradford Counties in Pennsylvania, and
Chemung, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins
And Schuyler in New York
By The Gazette Co., 1885
290 pages, Searchable
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Chemung County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 88,830. Its county seat is Elmira. Its name is derived from the name of a Delaware Indian village (meaning "big horn").
Chemung County comprises the Elmira, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Elmira-Corning, NY Combined Statistical Area.
Many signs posted along roads in Chemung County refer to the area as "Mark Twain Country" because of the many years the author lived and wrote in Elmira.
“IN the year of our Lord 1777 the valley of the Chemung was totally
unknown to the civilized world. There were many reason.s why this
should have been so. The Dutch had been in the eastern part of the
State of New York more than a century and a half before, and had sailed
up the Hudson River to the site of the present city of Albany. They
conjectured that that river was but an arm of the sea leading to the In
dies, the aim of all their hopes. They had no design nor dessire to go
where they could not be carried by their ships. They never once looked
westward, and if they had the abrupt and rugged spurs of the Allegha-
nies that form the Shawangunk and Catskill ranges would have been
barriers in their way, which their sluggish natures would have deemed
impossible to overcome.
“The English, succeeding these people of Holland, enterprising and
pushing, not only looked westward, but went in that direction, and
found, ready-made for them by nature, a long and level plain reaching
from Albany clear across the State to the shores of Lake Erie. This
became at once the only route from the sea- board to the West, and re-
mained so, by footpath, horseback, wagon, stage line, canal, and rail-
road, in successive periods for many years. Not only the valley of the
Chemung, but the whole southern tier of the counties of the State, were
virtually passed by in the rush for the Western prairies. It was a long
time before the rugged ranges I have named were overcome and the
Chemung Valley made known for what it indeed is. Even so late as
1851, when the Erie Railroad was opened, the party of distinguished men
who were invited to signalize the completion of that great work, by
passing over its whole line and participating in the festivities at the
several places along the route, were amazed at the beauty of the coun-
try they passed through after the summits beyond the valley of the
Susquehanna had been passed, and wondered that such a land should
have been hidden away so long. The French, led by brave and ener-
getic priests, had also been in Canada for more than a century and a
half, and pushing their way westward by the lakes had entered the val-
ley of the Mississippi.”
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