Thursday, October 1, 2009

Terrible Conflagration in Cooperstown, N. Y. - - Loss $200,000

CHERRY VALLEY, April 11.

A Fire Broke out in Cooperstown, N. Y. last night, destroying twenty-five or thirty buildings, including Edwards’ cabinet shop, where it originated, Lewis’ Hotel, Carr’s Hotel, Walworth’s law office, Birge’s Hall, Phinney’s building, Peck’s Hotel, and the telegraph office.

Almost everything was lost. The loss cannot be less than $200,000.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 17, 1862, p. 2

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