The Moore Memorial Library Museum features Town of Brisben History exhibit
The Moore Memorial Library Museum will feature the Town of Brisben Exhibit, sponsored by the Greene Historical Society, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, April 27, located at 59 Genesee Street, in Greene. The exhibit is free to the public and will feature many photo albums, story boards, and church records from Brisben history binders. (Submitted photo)
GREENE — The Moore Memorial Library Museum will feature the Town of Brisben Exhibit, sponsored by the Greene Historical Society, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, April 27, located at 59 Genesee Street.
“The Moore Memorial Library museum will be featuring many photo albums, story boards with photos, and binders full of Church records from the Brisben histories,” said Greene Historian Sharon Davis.
Davis said this exhibit is free to the public and she appreciates the interest to bring a little Brisben history back to life.
Information taken from “Annals of the Town Of Greene / Echoes Of the Past” by Mildred Folsom 1967
The town of Brisben NY, was settled in 1793 by Nathaniel Kellogg, Cornelius Hill and Daniel Tremane. Mr. Kellogg became the Clergyman and organized a Baptist Church in Brisben. Daniel Tremane settled on lot 9 of the Livingston Tract on the east side of the Chenango River. At that time Brisben was called East Greene until 1871.
With the Post Office and the DL&W Railroad then established under the Brisben name, it was evident the name of East Greene needed to be changed to Brisben. Because of the confusion of the village name, a petition was sent to Washington requesting the name be changed to Brisben. It was so granted. By 1872 the name East Greene then became Brisben.
Over the years Brisben became a very prosperous community. It hosted three stores, two mills, a Post Office, Church, Railroad Depot, a Borden Milk Condensery/Casein plant and later on a Baseball Bat factory.
The village also built and repaired canal boats for the Chenango Canal which ran through the village in the mid 1850s.
The Brisben Bat factory was started and owned by Robert Ramburg in 1953. It was built on the site of the old Borden Milk Plant/Casein Plant. He, with two or three employees did all the work. White ash logs from lumber mills and private owners were trucked in, cut into 42 inch lengths by a power hand saw, then sawed lengthwise and cut into rough-turned bat cylinders.
Working full time, a thousand bats could be turned out in a day. About 125,000 baseball bats were shipped to Louisville Kentucky, 8,500 to a carload, where they were fashioned into the famous “Louisville Slugger”. Some of the white ash logs were cut lengthwise into two pieces and used to make surveyor’s stakes.
On May 11, 1962 a fire of undetermined origin destroyed the Bat factory. Only the smokestack remained standing. All machinery and about 5,000 Bat cylinders were lost. A small building and shed were later built in which the business carried on for a few years, then about 1967 it was abandoned. The smoke stack still remains today.
“The Moore Memorial Library museum will be featuring many photo albums, story boards with photos, and binders full of Church records from the Brisben histories,” said Greene Historian Sharon Davis.
Davis said this exhibit is free to the public and she appreciates the interest to bring a little Brisben history back to life.
Information taken from “Annals of the Town Of Greene / Echoes Of the Past” by Mildred Folsom 1967
The town of Brisben NY, was settled in 1793 by Nathaniel Kellogg, Cornelius Hill and Daniel Tremane. Mr. Kellogg became the Clergyman and organized a Baptist Church in Brisben. Daniel Tremane settled on lot 9 of the Livingston Tract on the east side of the Chenango River. At that time Brisben was called East Greene until 1871.
With the Post Office and the DL&W Railroad then established under the Brisben name, it was evident the name of East Greene needed to be changed to Brisben. Because of the confusion of the village name, a petition was sent to Washington requesting the name be changed to Brisben. It was so granted. By 1872 the name East Greene then became Brisben.
Over the years Brisben became a very prosperous community. It hosted three stores, two mills, a Post Office, Church, Railroad Depot, a Borden Milk Condensery/Casein plant and later on a Baseball Bat factory.
The village also built and repaired canal boats for the Chenango Canal which ran through the village in the mid 1850s.
The Brisben Bat factory was started and owned by Robert Ramburg in 1953. It was built on the site of the old Borden Milk Plant/Casein Plant. He, with two or three employees did all the work. White ash logs from lumber mills and private owners were trucked in, cut into 42 inch lengths by a power hand saw, then sawed lengthwise and cut into rough-turned bat cylinders.
Working full time, a thousand bats could be turned out in a day. About 125,000 baseball bats were shipped to Louisville Kentucky, 8,500 to a carload, where they were fashioned into the famous “Louisville Slugger”. Some of the white ash logs were cut lengthwise into two pieces and used to make surveyor’s stakes.
On May 11, 1962 a fire of undetermined origin destroyed the Bat factory. Only the smokestack remained standing. All machinery and about 5,000 Bat cylinders were lost. A small building and shed were later built in which the business carried on for a few years, then about 1967 it was abandoned. The smoke stack still remains today.
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