Cow barn unroofed, Geneva, N.Y., Cyclone (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Cow barn unroofed, Geneva, N.Y., Cyclone
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the
negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Geneva, N.Y.
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.10699
Call Number: LC-B2- 2433-11
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swanq (57 months ago | reply)
From www.genevany.org/50/
'1912 Cyclone hit SW edge of Geneva on September 1; razed huge barns on White Springs Farm. '
And from www.belhurstcastle.com/whitehistory.html
'Sunday, September 1, 1912, was a day of disaster for White Springs Farm and the immediate vicinity. A cyclone wrought havoc, leveling the main group of dairy barns and uprooting most of the beautiful elms on the farm. A three-quarter ton dinner bell from one of the barns was found a half-mile away. Miraculously, there was no loss of human life, though four or five calves were killed. Clean-up operations were extensive, and tree experts were brought in to salvage what trees could be saved. Mr. Lewis sold the Guernseys, rather than replace the barns. By 1920 the cattle business was over.'
Since then, the farm has apparently been a poultry farm, an orchard, a home for the elderly, and is now a hotel and winery.
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