CHERRY VALLEY INNKEEPER ASKS: Did Van Buren Sit HERE? By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com CHERRY VALLEY – During home renovations, Barbara Hall and her husband, Gary Lozier, found where President Martin Van Buren likely sat when he visited the village in 1839. Not a chair. A toilet seat. “The whole back room was garbage,” she said of the former Story Tavern, now her refurbished home at 171 Main St. “As we were cleaning it out, we realized the…
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