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- In the book "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Page 250 in the drawing "Method of Laying Cobblestones and Striking the Joints", and Page 258 in the drawing "Various Types of Cobblestone Walls", Carl Schmidt refers to a cobblestone structure on Haak Road near Walworth. Haak Road is a short road to the SE of Walworth (Town of Walworth), terminating with Daansen Rd. (Town of Macedon) and Maple Avenue (Town of Palmyra), split with the Town line of the Town of Macedon and the Town of Palmyra in Wayne County. No cobblestone structure was found using street level view or satellite view with Google Maps or Google Earth Pro 1994-2015.
Editor's Note: On Page 258 above, there is a detailed description of how the stones are arranged by color on the buildings exterior walls. This matches exactly the description provided in the Cobblestone Society & Museum 10th Annual Tour 06/06/1970 pamphlet for the Larson House, 3353 Daansen Rd., Town of Walworth, Wayne County. The building is located just within the Town of Walworth border next to the Town of Macedon. The intersection of Daansen Rd. and Haak Rd. is just short distance south of 3353 Daansen Rd. in the Town of Macedon.
Carl F. Schmidt did not include any detailed information about this structure in either the Towns of Walworth or Macedon section of the book "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966. Known in the Cobblestone Info Base as Wal-5, Van Orden, 3353 Daansen Rd., the descriptions on pages 250 and 258 agree with the Robert Roudabush photographs displayed in the Wall-5 Van Orden structure page. Many thanks to Cobblestone Info Base co-editor Karen Crandall for researching this issue and via a 7/18/2022 email reporting the solution.
- A lithograph of the Macedon Agricultural Works ¹ and two similar text sources suggest that the central building with a date stone of 1848 in the manufacturing complex may have been cobblestone:
Despite numerous searches and corresponding with the Macedon historian at various times, I've come up empty on this with one very obscure [Courier Gazette, Newark, NY article 8/16/1991] reference: "Cobblestone landmarks of Wayne". The Macedon historian has been accommodating, but unable to find anything of help. All of the buildings associated with the Agricultural Works are long gone. The business petered out after 1885 after the founding businessmen died off. It was slowly sold off piece by piece in the early 1900s. Co-Editor Karen Crandall email 7/18/2022.
Editor's Note: The second source is from the first paragraph page 5 of the book "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", by Olaf William Shelgren, Jr., Cary Lattin, and Robert W. Frasch, Photographs by Gerda Peterich, 1966:
"While most of the cobblestone structures built were farmhouses, since most upstate New Yorkers were farmers, cobblestone structures were built in villages and cities also, including a business block in Batavia, a reaper manufacturing building in Perry, a warehouse in Palmyra, and an agricultural equipment factory in Macedon ¹, all razed years ago."
¹ Lithograph from History of Wayne County, New York, 1877, un-numbered page following page 120. An additional reference was made on page 118 in the section "Macedon": "Furnace, machine-shop, and agricultural works (quite extensive, and make building of grain-drills a specialty), Bickford & Huffman."
As of 7/20/2022 no other supporting evidence has been found.
