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1st White Man Hist Marker/Lake Captains Monument
| Historic Site #: | 14-004 (Exists) Type: B2,B3,B5,L | Town: | Williamson | ||
| Site Name: | 1st White Man Hist Marker/Lake Captains Monument | GPS Coordinates: | 43.281914, -77.183424 | ||
| Address: | 4160 Washington St. Pultneyville NY | ||||
| Description: | |||||
| Markers are at the intersection of Washington Street and Lake Road, on the left when traveling north on Washington Street in the Hamlet of Pultneyville, Town of Williamson. | |||||
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| Historical Marker Database | Photo from Bing.com |
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Inscription: First White Men From 1687 French Batteaux men stopped here to trade with Indians. First settler "Yankee Bill" Waters, a hunter lived here 1804. Lake Captains Monument In Memory of The Lake Captains of Pultneyville Samuel Throop Farmer 1810 Russell Whipple Enterprise 1811 Charles Snow Lark 1812 Russell Cole Caroline 1814 Judson Bond Hiram 1823 Henry Wood Atlas 1824 Horatio N. Throop Sophia 1825 Horace Morley Commerce 1827 Washington Throop Enterprise 1833 John Stevenson Three Brothers 1833 Edward Todd Wayne 1849 Andrew Holling Free Trader 1849 John Palmer Albion 1850 B. B. Brewer Challenge 1850 Armine Holling Rival 1856 Samuel D. Tomkinson Thomas Kingford 1859 James T. Holling Rival 1862 John H. Ledyard S.S. Cataract 1862 John Todd J.J. Hill 1862 Milton Fairbanks 1824 J. G. Roys Union 1869 John Burtiss Union 1869 William Leaver Grace Sherwood 1869 Russell Smith S.S. City of Concord 1869 M. V. Pallister Fred L. Wells 1881 Erected in Lasting Memory 1935 | |||||
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