Waterboro, NY: The Town that Disappeared Settling an untamed land was always hard. Finding the right spot, clearing the land, building shelter, starting a new life all were tasks handled daily by the energetic people who came to Western New York and made it their home. One such settlement was Waterboro, NY. |
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Panama RocksTucked away in the small town of Panama behind an un-assuming grove of trees is an outcropping of Paleozoic rocks formed millions of years ago. There is great history in this rock formation from the creation of them in general to the men and women who have walked across the very ground and used the giant rocks and crevices as shelter. It is said that the rocks were found and used by local Iroquois tribes who used the site for shelter and in turn found deposits of metals from the formation and sold it to local settlers. Over the years once the great tribes departed the land and Panama became the city it was to become to rocks were used in many other ways. It is said that money has been hidden all over the rocks, in the crevices and crags, deep within the moist confines of the natural caves. It is said that a courier was attacked by bandits and a great sum of money was stolen and hidden in the rocks. When the thieves returned the exact site they hid it could not be found. |
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 House of Seven Secrets
Little is know about the House of Seven Secrets in the town of Stockton. I heard about this “House” from a co-worker about five years ago when I first started my collection of local stories. It was a strange story based solely in urban legend. The story goes that off the beaten path sits a house that contains seven very deadly secrets. It is not the secrets that one needs to worry about though since it is told that if you discover all seven that are in the house you would die. When I first heard this I knew that there was something strange, something of an urban legend about the whole story. |
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John Murray Spear and "Harmonia" Amidst our small community in the mid 1800's there arose a community simply called "Harmonia" led by a man named John Murray Spear. John Murray Spear was a part of the great Spiritualist movement that was booming in that day. He was a Universalist Minister from Boston who began channeling the spirits of great men before him like Benjamin Franklin. In turn through these channelings he was told to create a great machine. A machine known as the "God Machine." No one knows for sure what the machine accomplished in reality but over a nine month period he was told through channelings how to create it and piece it together. Some say that it was a perpetual motion machine, or even a way to communicate with God. Whatever it was it did not seem to accomplish what it was built for. Over time John Murray Spear heard of two magnetic springs on the New York-Pennsylvania border that boasted great healing powers among other things. Subsequently he moved his operation south to Kiantone, New York where he established "Harmonia." |
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Corydon, Pennsylvania: The Drowned Town The once idyllic tree line streets of Corydon, Pennsylvania were once home to a small community just south of the New York State border. Where life went on like normal for residents who lived there. The railroad tracks which cut through the middle of town moving south toward commerce, past the railroad depot and through Bradford and Church Streets would often break the silence of a warm summer day. Nestled against the Allegany River Corydon was the perfect home town where one could walk down Bradford Street and go to the Hardware store and walk over to the Corydon post office to send letters to relatives out in the world. But in 1965 Corydon ceased to exist. |
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