Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFACE. fN response to urgent requests of many residents and visitors, this volume has been compiled ; and the aim of the writer has been to present to the public, an annals as full and complete as possible. No attempt, however, has been put forth to make it a book of biographies ; neither will there be found evidence of any studied effort at rhetorical flourish or period. But it is confidently hoped that the reader will find in these pages what the writer tried to place there—a plain, straightforward history of Richfield. HENRY A. WARD. i Richfield Springs, July, 1898. INDEX. PAGES Adventure and Scouting in Exeter, 22, 55 Affidavit of George Knouts, 16 Andrustown, 82, 84 Anecdotes, 72, 81 Anti-Masonry, 50 Apartments, 77 Attempt to raise Volunteers, 1812, 37 Balls, early 39 Bathing-houses, 55 Brant, 14, 16, 24, 54, 83, 84, 85 Brass Bands, 78 Brick-yards, first ... 59 British Nation, 13 Brighton, 33 Burying grounds, 38 Business organizations, 67 Butternut Road, 22 Campaigns, political, 50 Canadarago Belt, 98 Canadarago Race-course, 55 Changes, county and town, 10 Churches, 93 Cottages, 77 Courtney-Lee sculling race, 68 ' Curfew bell, 68 Customs, early, 19 ; t i Dam and mills, first, 18 De-o-won-go, 98, 101 Distilleries and drinks, 44 Druse murder, 86 Election, first, 27 Electric lights, 65 Exeter, 11, 21 Events, early, . 19 Fatalities, . 89 Federal Corners, 22 Fire Department, 59 Frenchmen at Canadarago Lake, 9 Game and fish, . 40 General trainings, . 36 Gunset Hill, 100 Habitations, early, 24 Hatred for England, 15 Hewes, G. R. T., 87 Hops, 68 Hotels, 69 Incorporation of Richfield Springs, 57 Ind... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.