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The history of Butternut Grove Campsites extends back 40 plus years. On their new farms, New Englanders built saltbox and Federal style houses. Every building material from shingles to shutters was available nearby. Slab-side structures were soon replaced with more substantial dwellings while others were incorporated into grander structures, or became woodsheds, chicken coops or other outbuildings. The names of Benjamin Tanner and Ard Rockwell are linked with the construction of a number of these earliest fine structures As the population grew and the economy flourished, more sophisticated structures appeared in all corners of the town, each with the modern advantages of its day.
At the four bordering corners of the town of Butternuts, other hamlets 12 began to emerge. In the south west corner of Butternuts, Mount Upton Guilford slowly evolved but on the Chenango County side of the Unadilla River further south than where it is today. Found there were various craftsmen, a store, Post Office , doctor, lawyer, blacksmith, and millers. The construction of the Borden milk processing plant in brought work to that location for many years The pre-Rev.
A Post Office was opened in a store 13 in S. A boost to the economies of Mount Upton, So. New Berlin and surrounding country sides was felt for a time due to their location on the erratic Unadilla Valley Railroad However, they never achieved the status of villages. Within the township, several hamlets evolved. Each had a school but no post office or church. Upton Park had, at various times, an inn, a toll house, a store, a dance hall, saw, grist and cider mills; Danielson Settlement had a sawmill, a fulling mill, blacksmith and cooper.
Over the years most of these little communities vanished. The residents of all the hamlets came to the village of Gilbertsville for goods and services not available near by especially the Slaughter House, Grist Mill, Tanneries, banking and newspaper. The Gilbertsville Academy and Collegiate Institute was the center for public programs including concerts, plays, and an annual lecture series. The vigorous agricultural and manufacturing economy financed a community wide appetite for cultural pursuits, private as well as public.
A Charter for a Masonic Lodge at Butternuts was issued in Music, both playing and singing, were important activities. The butternut will grow in most areas of New York state. It is quite tolerant of poor soils, but like most of the fruit and nut crops, does not perform well in very poorly drained soils.
Butternuts become very tall, and must be planted feet apart. What are its primary problems? Several diseases, including the Melanconia fungus disease a canker disease , give the tree a reputation for being short-lived. Leaf spot, bacterial blight and the codling moth are also problems for the butternut.
Rats are a problem with nuts on the ground or in storage. The nuts of most butternut trees are hard to crack for satisfactory kernel extraction. All varieties are difficult to propagate.
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