Tuscarora Area Community and Schools: {not inclusive list}
Communities and locations in the Town of Tuscarora
- Bear Falls – A waterfall south of South Addison.
- Freeman – A hamlet in the north part of the town on County Road 85.
- Nichols – A hamlet on County Road 86 near the south town line.
- Pinnacle State Park and Golf Course – A state park by the northeast town line.
- South Addison – A hamlet on NY-417 at the north town line.
- Van Fleet – A hamlet south of Freeman on County Road 85.
- Woods Corner – A hamlet south of Freeman on County Road 85 (Addison Hill Road).
There were lumbermen on the norther border of Pennsylvania and what now constitutes Tuscarora, Woodhull, Jasper, Greenwood and Hornellsville. William Wombough was born in Monmouth county, N. J., in 1769, and in the year 1804 settled in the Tuscarora valley. He purchased one hundred and eighty acres of land on Tuscarora creek above the village of Addison, built a saw-mill, and in 1806 erected a grist-mill on Tuscarora creek. At the time of his settlement here and for many years after he was the only man in the community who had money. He built a log distillery, a carding-mill, and in 1830 a second grist-mill, on the site of the former one. In order to furnish his first mill he was obliged to go to Philadelphia, which he did in a lumber wagon, and returned with a wagon filled with weighty machinery. The incidents connected with such a trip through forests and rough roads, its privations and necessary economy and hardships, are in striking contrast with the rapid transit of the present day.
John W. Dininny was born in the town of Milford, now Oneonta, on the 23rd day of June, 1820. In 1832 he emigrated with his parents to the town of Addison now Tuscarora then a wilderness.
Source: GenailogyTrils.com [Tuscarora]
