Hornell High School - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Hornell, NY)

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7 IVUVV ROM the days when it emerged from the forest, Hornell's growth has been largely due to railroads. The period of the city's first rapid growth began with the construction of the New York and Erie Railroad. In 1841 the road's pile driver, a steam machine combining a pile driver, locomotive and saw-mill, appeared at Hornell, then known as Hornellsville. Running out of funds, the railroad company for a time suspended operations, but finally the road was completed. The Hrst locomotive reached Hornell in September, 1850. Progress of the place rapidly followed. November 19, 1851, the Hornellsville Tribune made its bow. The village was incorporated June 28, 1852, but it was not until 1888 that it was incorporated as a city. Building boomed. There was not a vacant house in the community. In 1851 Hornellsville had about 100 houses, two churches and two schools. Cobbls Hotel, located at the corner of Main and Canisteo Streets, was then the gathering place of travelers on the new road. The first Erie shop for shedj was built in 18-19 and enlarged the next year to ac- commodate three engines and machinery for their repair. It burned in 1856. Ground was broken for new shops and an engine house and the foundation laid in 1854, as the old shops were too small. Today there are many miles of switching tracks in Hornell and hundreds of cars pass through daily. The ancient shops have given place to new ones, covering several acres. Judge George Hornell, from whom the community gets its name, made the first settlement in the town as early as 1793, purchasing 2,000 or 3,000 acres of land and erecting a grist and saw mill. At that time the nearest grist mill was at Elmira, sixty miles by later road but nearly 100 by the roads the pioneers were obliged to take. journeys to that mill occupied weeks. For seventeen years Judge Hornell was the life of the settlement and the embodiment of its history. 'va- M Xa if .. . ,aaufez ' . L , .' wifi ' - ., 351. xv Q