Hometown History
March 30, 2023
125 Years Ago
People say prices are inflated now and that we are overdoing it. Such critics should have been here sixteen years ago. Why, there is any quantity of well-situated property in the central part of the town that doesn’t yet command the figure it was held at in 1872. The change of recent years, the advance in value, has been largely felt along Main Street, and in the outlying districts. Main Street frontages are pretty high, it is true; but they will probably never be lower. As for property in the new tracts, prices are very moderate as compared with those commanded in 1872, when Oneonta had less than 1,400 in population and lived mainly on hope.
The impression seems to prevail about town that but one sort of table is turned out by the Oneonta factory. In point of fact the product ranges from an ordinary dining table in various styles and materials, to a very handy folding table for general purposes and stands of several sorts, all of them models in their way. A shipment of tables was made to Montevideo, Monday, which may prove the beginning of a lucrative foreign trade.
March 1888
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