Gold Line  C. 1900  [Written in the late 1970's-early 80's]
September 2001   { The 1904 Town Of Scipio NY Map can be viewed
at website: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~springport/
pictures43/00004373.jpg }  "Good Neighbors" is a collection of
my memories of the people who lived on the country road where I
was born, in 1891, and reared on a small general crop farm
bordering on the Black Street Road, Town of Scipio, Cayuga
County, New York. My grass roots were well-established in this
area, prior to 1900. The farming neighbors selected were also
well-established prior to the "turn-of-the-century." All of them
were dirt farmers, living from cropland and livestock.  Black
Street Road consists of a three-mile stretch of road commencing
at a right hand fork off Route 34, approximately two miles south
of the village of Fleming, and extending three-plus miles in the
southerly direction to an intersection with Center Road. For
many years there has been some confusion over the name "Black
Street," which I cons