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1. This not-so-hot pepper is our Garden Girl’s favorite! 2. Name of SpaceX Crew. See MV Astronomy. 3. The children cared for by the Masonic Home and School in the late 1800s were known as ___ ___. See Oneida Co. History. 4. This month, the 2020 Adirondacks National Exhibition of American ___ opens in Old Forge. 5. Be sure to thank this auto dealership for making MVL possible! 8. Suzie Jones shares a recipe for this cool treat this month. 9. The Farmers’ Museum is open! Don’t forget your ___. 11. You know it’s summer when you see people lined up for hotdogs at ___’ in Yorkville!

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The House and Factory On Moss Island, Little Falls

By sue perkins

The Herkimer County Historical Society received an anonymous collection of photographs of Moss Island in Little Falls, New York. One of the photographs that captured my curiosity showed a house on Moss Island which had written on the back was the house of Mr. Reagan. I had never heard of a house being on the island. Who was Mr. Reagan? Thus, commenced my research to find out about Mr. Reagan’s first name.

I first looked in the society’s two vertical files on Moss Island. I found an unnamed newspaper article dated August 9, 1947, with the following: “The best-remembered owner of the island was John Reagan, who became its possessor in the early 1870s. Following his death, ownership devolved on his widow, Catherine Reagan, known affectionately to the people of the city as “Aunty” Reagan. She sold it to the late John and George L. Smith, father and son, who built the stone mill on the southwest corner of the property, which was for years of one the city’s most prosperous industries.” I then went on www.fultonhistory.com and found an article in the Little Falls Evening Times dated Wednesday, November 17, 1886, that J.H. Smith purchased Moss Island for his wool extract business from Mr. Reagan who sold the island for $3,200 with the privilege of retaining his little cabin and passing the remainder of his days there.

Here are two different accounts on who purchased Moss Island. I found that in 1887, John H. Smith (1832-1905) formed a co-partnership with Dr. B. E. Bushnell organizing the Little Falls Wool Extract Co. In 1895, he purchased the business from Bushnell and it alone until July 1904 when the company reorganized under the name of Adirondack Woolen Company. He then formed a partnership with

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