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- Wayne Historians Organization (WHO) has created a Historic Sites Inventory. It's a "work in progress" and can be found at http://waynehistorians.org. Richard Palmer email 13May2018.
"Cobblestone Architecture", 1944, Carl Schmidt, Page 24 refers to the Shaw House on the Palmyra-Marion Road, current State Route 21. The existence and exact location of this structure can not be determined, but should be either in the Town of Palmyra or the Town of Marion. Three known cobblestone structures are located on Route 21 between Palmyra and Marion, but not enough information is known to suggest if one of these structures is the Shaw House, or would be a new addition to the Cobblestone Info Base.
- "Cobblestone Homes Built in Wayne", by Verlyn Edward Klahn, Newark Courier-Gazette article, December 15 and 21, 1955.
- In 1955 when Mr. Verlan Klahn of Newark did a Hoffman Scholarship paper on the cobblestone buildings of Wayne County, he listed 152 structures* either wholly or partly of cobblestone masonry. The earliest marked structure is the Blaisdell home northeast of Lyons which bears the name of Henry Van DerBilt and the date 1831. Two houses in Sodus Center may be older but there is no proof. The former Riker home north of Ontario built in the 1840's has a later addition dated '1868' which is the most recent cobblestone building in Wayne County. "Notes from other Cobblestone Centers", Wayne County excerpt, by Dorothy S. Facer, Wayne County Historian, page 13, "A Heritage of Cobblestone", a product of the Cobblestone Society, printed and published as a supplement to "The Orleans Republican American" circa 1966.
*Editor's Note: as of 12/11/2021 there are 210 known cobblestone structures in Wayne County.
