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Ralph Birdsall. The Story of Cooperstown
The Story of Cooperstown
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Story of Cooperstown
CHAPTER I
THE INDIANS
CHAPTER II
THE COMING OF THE WHITE MEN
CHAPTER III
A BYPATH OF THE REVOLUTION
CHAPTER IV
THE BEGINNING OF THE SETTLEMENT
CHAPTER V
A VILLAGE IN THE MAKING
CHAPTER VI
OLD-TIME LOVE AND RELIGION
CHAPTER VII
HOMES AND GOSSIP OF OTHER DAYS
CHAPTER VIII
THE PIONEER COURT ROOM
CHAPTER IX
FATHER NASH
CHAPTER X
THE IMMORTAL NATTY BUMPPO
CHAPTER XI
STRANGE TALES OF THE GALLOWS
CHAPTER XII
SOLID SURVIVALS
CHAPTER XIII
THE BIRTHPLACE OF BASE BALL
CHAPTER XIV
FENIMORE COOPER IN THE VILLAGE
CHAPTER XV
MR. JUSTICE NELSON
CHAPTER XVI
CHRIST CHURCHYARD
CHAPTER XVII
FROM APPLE HILL TO FERNLEIGH
CHAPTER XVIII
THE LAKE OF ROMANCE AND FISHERMEN
CHAPTER XIX
TWENTIETH CENTURY BEGINNINGS
VISITORS' GUIDE
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Ralph Birdsall
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The main building of Hartwick Seminary was erected in 1812, at the present site, near the bank of the Susquehanna River, about five miles southward of Cooperstown, and some four miles eastward from Hartwick village. The school was opened in 1815, and received from the legislature a charter in 1816. It is the oldest theological school in the State of New York, and the oldest Lutheran theological seminary in America. In addition to being a theological school, Hartwick Seminary is now devoted to general education, and includes among its pupils not only boys, but, in spite of the prejudice of its founder, young women.
Among the original trustees named in the charter of Hartwick Seminary was the Rev. Daniel Nash, the first rector of Christ Church, Cooperstown. Judge Samuel Nelson, and Col. John H. Prentiss, of Cooperstown, were afterward trustees for many years, and in their time there was among the people of this village a lively interest in Hartwick Seminary, the literary exercises at the end of each scholastic year being largely attended by visitors from Cooperstown. It is significant of the close relation which formerly existed between the two villages that the street which runs westward from the Presbyterian church in Cooperstown, now called Elm Street, was at one time known to the inhabitants as "the Hartwick Road."
