Cornish Hill lies between two roads: Campbell Hill Road and Sibley Gulf Road, which is a fork road diverting off from Cornish Hill road which runs adjacent to Sibley. Roughly a mile southwest lies a pond named Moss Pond in Otsego County which is publicly accessible area used for fishing.[3]
Railway HistoryEdit
In the 1870s, the Adirondack Railway, later bought in 1889 by the Delaware & Hudson Railway, ran through towns near Cornish Hill including Thurman, Hadley, and Stony Creek among others. These towns subsequently obtained a number of railroad crossings including two grade crossings north and south of Cornish Hill and stations, such as Thurman Station built in 1871[4] among others. The line ran near to Cornish Hill and had several incidents over the years. On March 3, 1887, a three-locomotive passenger and mail train derailed along an embankment, there were no reported injuries, although several nearly were injured or killed.[5] Nearly a year later on March 12, during The Great Blizzard of 1888, a train wrecked at Cornish Hill, 5 miles from Hadley. Adirondack Superintendent Durkee assembled a rescue crew of 60 to free the derailed train, and ensuring its arrival to Saratoga Springs by the 14th.[6] Another incident was years later in 1897 when a conspiracy to derail and rob the Adirondack Express by a 15-year-old boy named Morris Winslow, who was arrested once authorities overheard.[7]
In 1927, there were hearings in Saratoga in April to eliminate 49 grade crossings near Cornish Hill and other areas,[8] which was discontinued in December coming to the conclusion that there wasn't any substantial reason for them to be removed.[9] Although it appears these crossings and section of rail line have been taken out in the last 95 years.
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