Betsey Spalding Griffin The name of the artist who painted Betsey Spalding Griffin's portrait is unknown Betsey Spalding was born on Feb. 26, 1785, in Plainfield, Windham county, CT, to Ezra Spalding (1854-1828) and Hannah Eaton (1758-1827). Betsey was descended from Joseph Spalding (1646-1740), a distant relative of Simon Spalding, one of the earliest white settlers of Sheshequin. She moved from Plainfield to Canton, Bradford county, with her parents in 1796, when she was ni

William Kiff was born on May 22, 1793, in Bloomville (town of Kortright), Delaware county, NY, the sixth of ten children of Andrew Kiff...

Spotlight on Early Settlers- Myra and Alice Kingsbury Myra and Alice Kingsbury were the daughters of Lemuel and Sarah Osborn. Myra was...

Spotlight on Early Settlers-                   Cynthia Holcomb Shaw and Ebenezer Shaw Cynthia was born March 17, 1783 in Grandby,...

Spotlight on Early Settlers –Arletta Talladay Northrup Recently, Tioga Point Museum was contacted by Peg Tracy, the great, great, great...

From Our Archives…at Tioga Point Museum Shared by Sandy Chamberlain   The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) was a group of women who...

By Sandy Chamberlain If you’re like me, you’ve never heard of the Athens Car and Coach Company.  It was a thriving business in the late...

Traitor or Hero? Colonel John Franklin was a well-known man in the early days of Athens and Tioga Point. He was born in Canaan,...

Continuing with the connection to evangelism and music, P.P. Bliss is the other man that Rome is proud to recall. From a 1978 issue of...

Shared by Sandy Chamberlain Evangelism and music was not something I ever thought about as going hand in hand. But the people of Rome,...