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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°13'47.56"N 77°53'25.50"W. Current owner of record, Miesch as of the 2018 Tax Roll.
Town of Clarkson and Monroe County Maps
Huckler, 3567 Sweden-Walker Rd. This 2-story house has a wooden addition on its east and north sides. A cellar entrance is located on the south side. Roudabush Survey page 66
"Some Old Houses of Monroe County - Town of Clarkson". Old Prosser House, compiled by Miss Helen M. Hastings, c. 1930's, Monroe Chapter D.A.R., Brockport New York. Original draft version from Helen Hasting's notebook. Courtesy Emily L. Knapp Museum and Library of Local History.
Miss Hastings (1871-1953) was a keen amateur historian, and a great niece of William Seymour, a key participant in the agricultural reaper and mower industry, manufacturing the horse drawn farm implements in Brockport. NY, ca. 1840s-1880s. She wrote a number of articles about the history of the Brockport, NY area, and was a talented artist and illustrator ca. 1987-1904 whose large portfolio of art work was unknown until discovered in January of 2016 by the Emily L. Knapp Museum and Library of Local History.
Jonathan Prosser settled here in 1818 from Albany County. He had purchased a huge tract of land in the "Connecticut Tract, some of which he later donated for the present Garland Cemetery.
The cobblestone house was probably built in the 1830's. An early photograph still in the house, shows the stone house with a later victorian porch addition and a number of wooden farm buildings behind.
Later the farm was known as the "Cowan Homestead" and was operated as a goose farm producing goose feathers and especially the hight valued "down". The geese were placed by hand each spring. A stocking was placed over their head to control the goose and only a certain amount of feathers could be plucked with injuring the bird. The soft down was then in demand for bedding and pillows. The low and swampy land with its spring fed pond was well suited to geese.
Mr and Mrs Roy Grimm purchased the property in 1954 from Mrs. Louise Cowan, after it had stood vacant for a number of years. Extensive renovations include an enlarged modern kitchen. The enlarged living room has a raised hearth brick fireplace, parquet floors and paneled walls. Most of the outbuildings have been removed, but a few bags of eiderdown were found in the one remaining barn.
Hand written notes for the planned Seventh Annual Cobblestone Tour 06/10/1967, Eastern Orleans and Western Monroe Counties. This home was not included in the tour.
"The Cobblestone Houses of Upstate New York", compiled by Dorothy Wells Pease 1941. Research done in collaboration with Hazed B. Jeffery, supplemented with material furnished by Carl F. Schmidt. Reference the third paragraph on page 4.
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¹ Photography courtesy Miss Helen M. Hastings.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
