Building date: 1846
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°15'56.80"N 77°01'28.11"W. Current owner of record, Mcelroy as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Sodus and Wayne County Maps
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Preston-Gaylord Cobblestone Farmhouse and Barn
vc [The barn adjacent to] this house at 7563 Lake Road for many years was known as Maxwell Creek Inn Bed & Breakfast. It was built in 1846. The original owners were John and Elizabeth (Swales) Preston. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. Reputedly, it was a station on the Underground Railroad. Richard Palmer blog
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Gaylord Barn excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 298 and 299. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
"Nine Historic Houses Along Lake Ontario", page 1E, Democrat and Chronicle 5/1/1960. Courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
Walk with me as if we're walking together inside a snow globe. A digital video by Joh Kucko, John Kucko Digital 12/8/2021.
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National Register of Historic Places Registration
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¹ Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
