NYS AES 125th LbNA #34927 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Cock o' the Trail  |
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| Plant date: | Sep 6, 2007 |
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| City: | Geneva |
| County: | Ontario |
| State: | New York |
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| Found by: | bfarowl |
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| Last found: | Sep 26, 2011 |
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| Last edited: | Sep 6, 2007 |
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Following purchase of the former 125-acre Denton Farm in Geneva, the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (NYSAES)was established on March 1, 1882. First Director E. L. Sturtevant had the farmhouse, then known as Denton Place, modified to serve as offices, laboratories, and staff living quarters. This building later served successively for administration and the library, finally housing the Entomology Department until 1968. Still standing unused with its ornate ironwork in the middle of the campus, it may someday, as long intended, become a visitor center as the Parrott Hall Center for Food and Agricultural Sciences.
From the first, the NYS AES has been dedicated to serving those producing and consuming New York State's agricultural products - with experimentation in both basic and applied science. Soon after becoming a unit of Cornell University in 1923, the Experiment Station has primarily engaged in horticultural research, other functions being shifted to the main campus in Ithaca.
No classes are taught on campus, but many graduate students from around the world pursue their advanced degrees under resident professors who are on the faculty of the College of Agricultural & Life Sciences of Cornell University. It is widely acknowledged to be one of the world's foremost horticultural institutes. The greatly expanded facilities and the wide range of research projects will be highlighted at the 125th Anniversary Open House on Sept. 15, 2007.
CLUES; Arriving in downtown Geneva on NY 14 or NY5/US20, proceed northwest up Castle St. to its intersection with North St. and the Experiment Station campus. Go around to the second (south) entrance on Preemption Road. Enter there and park in the first available parking area. Note that Preemption Road also connects a mile and a half south with NY-5/US-20, known locally as "5&20", and several miles north beyond Oaks Corners with NY96.
In the nearby grove of nut trees, planted by Professor George L. Slate (1899 - 1976) perhaps 75 years ago, there is an English walnut tree (Juglans regis) - and so labeled - that stands directly in line with and west of the corners of the nearby General Services Bldg. and Barton Laboratory, the multi-storied building on the far side of the campus. Fifteen paces south of this tree is another very tall five-stemmed nut tree that holds the 125th Anniversary Letterbox. But do take care not to fall into several inches of water (somewhat more at times) in Castle Creek.
(Historical notes:
Dr. Slate, a former friend and colleague, was the professor with longest tenure at the Station (1920-1969) in its first 100 years. He served many years as secretary, president and editor of the Northern Nut Growers Association.
The names of the attractive tree-lined street nearby and the creek itself comes from the site of a former Seneca Indian castle, or primary village - Kanedesaga, which had been located barely a hundred yards northwest.
The road is named after the Preemption Line that right after the Revolutionary War marked the western boundary of the United States. (How 'bout that?!) However, two years later - in 1785 - it was discovered to be in error. A new survey has it bisecting Seneca Lake, along a new Preemption Line that became the county line. These survey lines, both old and new, still serve as straight-line roadways - with some interruptions - and town and county boundaries all the way from the Pennsylvania to Lake Ontario.)
Following purchase of the former 125-acre Denton Farm in Geneva, the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (NYSAES)was established on March 1, 1882. First Director E. L. Sturtevant had the farmhouse, then known as Denton Place, modified to serve as offices, laboratories, and staff living quarters. This building later served successively for administration and the library, finally housing the Entomology Department until 1968. Still standing unused with its ornate ironwork in the middle of the campus, it may someday, as long intended, become a visitor center as the Parrott Hall Center for Food and Agricultural Sciences.
From the first, the NYS AES has been dedicated to serving those producing and consuming New York State's agricultural products - with experimentation in both basic and applied science. Soon after becoming a unit of Cornell University in 1923, the Experiment Station has primarily engaged in horticultural research, other functions being shifted to the main campus in Ithaca.
No classes are taught on campus, but many graduate students from around the world pursue their advanced degrees under resident professors who are on the faculty of the College of Agricultural & Life Sciences of Cornell University. It is widely acknowledged to be one of the world's foremost horticultural institutes. The greatly expanded facilities and the wide range of research projects will be highlighted at the 125th Anniversary Open House on Sept. 15, 2007.
CLUES; Arriving in downtown Geneva on NY 14 or NY5/US20, proceed northwest up Castle St. to its intersection with North St. and the Experiment Station campus. Go around to the second (south) entrance on Preemption Road. Enter there and park in the first available parking area. Note that Preemption Road also connects a mile and a half south with NY-5/US-20, known locally as "5&20", and several miles north beyond Oaks Corners with NY96.
In the nearby grove of nut trees, planted by Professor George L. Slate (1899 - 1976) perhaps 75 years ago, there is an English walnut tree (Juglans regis) - and so labeled - that stands directly in line with and west of the corners of the nearby General Services Bldg. and Barton Laboratory, the multi-storied building on the far side of the campus. Fifteen paces south of this tree is another very tall five-stemmed nut tree that holds the 125th Anniversary Letterbox. But do take care not to fall into several inches of water (somewhat more at times) in Castle Creek.
(Historical notes:
Dr. Slate, a former friend and colleague, was the professor with longest tenure at the Station (1920-1969) in its first 100 years. He served many years as secretary, president and editor of the Northern Nut Growers Association.
The names of the attractive tree-lined street nearby and the creek itself comes from the site of a former Seneca Indian castle, or primary village - Kanedesaga, which had been located barely a hundred yards northwest.
The road is named after the Preemption Line that right after the Revolutionary War marked the western boundary of the United States. (How 'bout that?!) However, two years later - in 1785 - it was discovered to be in error. A new survey has it bisecting Seneca Lake, along a new Preemption Line that became the county line. These survey lines, both old and new, still serve as straight-line roadways - with some interruptions - and town and county boundaries all the way from the Pennsylvania to Lake Ontario.)