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    Carlton and Point Breeze
    Carlton and Point Breeze
    Carlton and Point Breeze
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    Carlton and Point Breeze

    By Hollis Ricci-Canham and Avis A. Townsend

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    With 200 unforgettable images, Carlton and Point Breeze recounts the history of a community that developed along the shore of Lake Ontario in 1803. The first settlers hunted and fished for a living, just as Native Americans had for centuries. At Point Breeze, Oak Orchard Harbor became a shipbuilding center. The Bridges and Waterport developed as fishing villages. And Ashwood, Kenyonville, Kuckville, and Kent grew into large farms, with crops and cattle that were shipped to faraway markets. Times change, and today the waterfront s recreational appeal lures thousands of visitors. But ancient Native American burial grounds still exist here, and arrowheads and flint appear each spring when gardens are tilled and farmland gives way to golf courses.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateAug 7, 2006
    ISBN9781439618011
    Carlton and Point Breeze
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    Hollis Ricci-Canham

    Hollis Ricci-Canham, a lifelong resident and founder of the Orleans County Genealogical Society, and Avis A. Townsend, the author of four other books published by Arcadia, collaborated on Carlton and Point Breeze. In public and private meetings with past and present residents, they uncovered vintage photographs and historical detail not widely known. Their book is a fitting tribute to a unique lakefront community.

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      Carlton and Point Breeze - Hollis Ricci-Canham

      historian.

      INTRODUCTION

      The Orleans County town of Carlton is situated on the south shore of Lake Ontario at the mouth of the Oak Orchard Harbor, bordered on the east by Kendall and the west by Yates. The southern border of the town meets Gaines. Carlton is centered between Niagara Falls and Rochester.

      Original inhabitants were Native Americans who enjoyed the fertile lands and waterways along the trail that is now Oak Orchard Road. They continually traveled this trail, storing their cached tools in mounds along the high banks of the Oak Orchard River and fishing and hunting on the west side at Oak Orchard River at Lake Ontario. Over time, professional digs have recovered many Native American artifacts.

      The first white men to settle and reside in Orleans County arrived by boat from Canada. Brothers William and James Walsworth built cabins at the mouths of Oak Orchard River and Johnson’s Creek, respectively. They hunted and fished for a living. William arrived first with his family, having crossed the lake in an open boat in May 1803. The nearest neighbors were at Braddocks Bay on the east and Fort Niagara on the west. James followed soon after.

      In 1805, Elijah and Bathshua Brown brought their family to the Oak Orchard River from Sodus via a large boat. Elijah died en route, and the family buried him in what became the first marked grave of Orleans County.

      Matthew Dunham and sons arrived from New England and settled in nearby Kuckville in 1804. They built a dam across Johnson’s Creek and erected a building for turning wood. The Holland Land Company provided them with iron and supplies to build grist and sawmills to promote development of the area.

      By 1890, Waterport was the largest business place in Carlton, situated at the junction of Otter and Oak Orchard Creeks. It contained a post office, two general stores, a hardware store, drugstore, notion store, hotel and livery, jewelry store, two blacksmith shops, a meat market, harness shop, cooperage, and foundry. It also had a coal yard, gristmill, sawmill, church, school, and doctor.

      The Bridges, located at the junction of Marsh Creek and Oak Orchard Creek, a mile south of Lake Ontario, also included similar businesses and additionally a dry house, public hall, and two churches. Elijah Brown’s wife and children laid out the first apple orchard in 1810. Brown’s farm flourishes to this day, once famous for having the world’s largest quince orchard, and the seventh generation continues setting a high standard for agri-tourism in New York State.

      Point Breeze is on Lake Ontario at the mouth of Oak Orchard Creek. From the mid-1800s, shipbuilding was carried on by the Murray family, and import and export businesses were carried out in the harbor. Lumber came in from Canada, and fruit and farm crops went out via the lake schooners. The river was busy with commerce, not only used for recreation and fishing. In 1867, the federal government appointed $87,000 for harbor improvements. Two wooden piers, each 1,600 feet long, a lighthouse, and a lighthouse keeper’s home were built. The piers suffered terrible destruction from a storm in 1914, and another storm in 1916 took the lighthouse to its watery grave. On the west side of Oak Orchard River, a resort community originally called Lakeview, eventually dubbed Oak Orchard on the Lake, developed. In the late 1800s, the area contained an upscale hotel and racetrack. The west side of the Oak Orchard is currently considered residential, and the east side business area bustles with marinas, restaurants, and agricultural enterprises.

      Smaller hamlets of Kuckville, Kenyonville, and Kent each had a post office, store, and country school and a few small businesses. Kenyonville holds claim to the first church in the town of Carlton. Kenyonville also claimed a covered bridge over the Oak Orchard Creek. Essentially these areas are residential only now, although Kuckville does have a country store. Kent and Waterport still have their own post office.

      Lakeside, at Johnson’s Creek and Lake Ontario, once an active summer resort of the early 1900s, is now an area of a few year-round homes and several seasonal

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