LAMEY'S 1900 AUBURN, NY DIRECTORY
ALONZO P. LAMEY, Publisher.
COPYRIGHTED. ORIGINAL PRICE $3.00
Directory Office, 4 Market St., Auburn, N.Y.

1900  Directory -  "MORAVIA" SECTION

Moravia
Moravia was formed from Sempronius, March 20, 1833. It lies in the south-east
part of the county, upon Owasco Lake and Inlet. The surface consists of a rolling
upland, broken by the deep and narrow valleys of the Owasco Inlet and its branches.
These valleys are 300 to 400 feet below the hill summits, and are bordered by steep,
and, in some places, perpendicular sides. Upon the streams in the ravines are several
beautiful cascades, furnishing an abundance of water power. Mill Brook, below its
junction with Trout Brook, flows over a precipice 80 feet high. Upon the east tributary
of the inlet, near the south border, is a cascade known as Dry Falls, from the
circumstance that in summer the stream ceases to flow. A little below this cascade is a
circular recess in the face of a perpendicular precipice, 42 feet deep, and surrounded
by a limestone arch 55 feet high and 125 feet long. Upon this arch rises a lofty hill,
covered with primitive forest trees. A large spring of carburetted hydrogen gas, highly
inflammable, exists on the lowlands near the lake. Among the hills the soil is a gravelly
loam, composed of gravel and disintegrated slate and limestone. In this town is one of
those numerous valleys which are a peculiar characteristic of the surface of Central New
York. From its contiguity to the nieghboring lake it has long been known as Owasco
Flats. The land is elevated some 300 to 400 feet at the head of the lake, and the decline
to the valley is, in some places, so precipitous as to make the passage of vehicles
impossible. The flats stretch southward from the lake, for a distance of five miles, when
the valley narrows into a winding ravine, thus continuing for many miles, occasionally
expanding its confines to give place to a quiet hamlet. These flats were partly cultivated
by the Indians, prior to white settlement, and still bear traces of ancient occupation.
Population, 2,498 Area, 17,646 acres.

There is but one Postoffice in this town--Moravia. A few of the residents receive their
mail at Kelloggsville, in the town of Niles.

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