- By Dan Veaner
- Around Town
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Lansing Town Historian Louise Bement reports that a permanent display of historical photographs is being mounted at the Lansing Tops. Bement was approached by CIP Retail of Fairfield, Ohio, asking if she could provide historic pictures for the 'refreshing' of the Triphammer Tops, reportedly under new management. With an April 1 deadline Bement and Bill Hecht have been working together to scan original historical photographs from the town archive."We scanned furoiusly at least two days a week from then 'till April and Bill sent what we had done to Ohio," Bement says. "They are putting them up and will have a lot of them - permanently."
A view looking north of the International Salt Company on what is now called Salt Point. Today the property is a nature park maintained by the Town Of Lansing and the volunteer organization 'Friends of Salt Point'.As of Monday three pictures had been mounted, with more coming. The first two show the International Salt company for which Salt point is named. The company produced table salt and industrial salt there until 1962, when it was consolidated with the Watkins Glen plant. As the plant was being demolished, it caught on fire and burned to the ground in the summer of 1962. When you walk the trails on Salt Point today there are still shards of concrete that were part of the building.
The final spike is driven in the Ithaca Auburn Short Line. An electric trolley service ran from Ithaca to the Rogue's Harbor Inn, and steam engines ran the rest of the way to Auburn. Portions of the railroad bed still exist in the Village and Town of Lansing, including what is now a walking path on the Town Center Trail across the street from the Town ballfields.
A gypsy camp across the street from Charles Bower, Jr.'s property on Ridge Road (34B). The photo was taken near the top of the hill travelling north on NYS Route 34B after a bridge that spans Salmon Creek. Today the location is filled with apartment buildings.
A boat docked at Myers PointThe third picture is of the Ozmun house in North Lansing. The home later became the Rose Inn. During its time as the Rose Inn it suffered some fires, the last one in 2005, which destroyed the original house that was renowned for its elegant carved staircase. The property was sold some years later and the newer addition that had survived the fire was renovated to become the John Joseph Inn, which continues to operate.
Bement says the pictures will be displayed around the store using different forms of presentation.
"These first three are in big frames," she says. "Some of them will be printed on a kind of wall paper. Over the produce will be small pictures with the corn or peas on one side and a Lansing picture on the other. The lady at the cash register told me a group of people from Lansing have bought the store and that's why it is being renovated."
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