Medina Today

 

SW at the main four corners; site of the Medina Hotel, torn down 1912; just beyond it to the south was once the pioneer home of  John and Mamre Knapp

SE at the main four corners; once on the left was Pratt cabinet shop , and on right was Carter Blacksmith Shop Among various other businesses that were situated here,  the early successful store by Allen and Daniels, and later H. Clark Harrington , blacksmith with Wheeler Lindenbower upstairs doing wagon repairs.  Others at the cabinet shop included Wm. Strobeck and possibly woodworkers Chauncey Mann and Ben Heydenberk. This was also the corner with the town pump.

The former Goldsborough/Gaskill/Fike farm on Eagle Street 2010's.  Originally owned by Hotchkiss and Knapp; later by Artemus Allen and sold to his brother-in-law Mr. Goldsborough when Allen moved to Coldwater in the 1850's.

Eagle Street 2010s, looking east.

Outhouse within a village Section 2010's

Red Brick Store from Mill St./Bothwell Hwy south 2012 (looking north).

High creek bank SW edge of village

Main St. near the Church, looking east

Taken 2010, a few years before demolition of Red Brick Store built 1883 by John Christophers

Original Baxter Lyon farm east side of village on Main St.

Cemetery service road that is location of Hotchkiss Street on Medina 1837 Plat

2010s Fork in the road on Canandaigua Rd.; to the left Medina, to the right Canandaigua.  Even this scene has changed as the old-fashioned grassy triangle and a row of trees to the left have now been removed.

Back road to Canandaigua; Wm. Cavender's original farm at the edge of the village is first place on left with the barns.  The Canandaigua saw and grist mills, as well as a brick yard, were located to the west of where this photo was taken (behind this picture), near the intersection of Canandaigua and Warwick Roads.

Canandaigua brick store 2011 before it's demolition.  Upstairs was the site of a dance in the 1880's where Annis Darr's parents, Inez Palmer and Ruben Cooley first met (From the handwritten stories of Annis Darr, Hudson Museum.)

2016 Canandaigua on Bates St., Church on left

Stone work along creek near Tiffin bridge, 2010s; probable site of the previous truss bridge.

2010 Bean Creek in Powell Nature Sanctuary a couple miles NW of Medina Village.  This is the view of the pioneers when they first arrived in the area.

2011 Durfee (Kelley) Lake, Medina Twp.; Once Big Bear (Covell) and Little Bear Lakes looked like this before being dammed up to make Lake Hudson.  The Pottawatomies had a camp on the north side of this lake, according to George W. Moore.  Mr. Pratt, who owned the cabinet shop next to the Allen Daniels store, once owned the eastern half of this lake, buying it from the United States government.

Shadbolt's corner has always looked this pretty my whole life, and still does in 2020.  Once this was the site of George V. Hawkins' hotel, tavern and store, later owned by James Milliken.  The present house was once  part of a complex that included other buildings.  Mr. Hawkins got his start by running an ashery that was located SW of this corner at Main St. and Warwick Rd., closer to the Medina mills.  Later he moved to Clayton, but is buried in Medina Cemetery.

The road to Medina from Hudson--Lawrence Rd., once known as "The angling road," a former Pottawatomie trail.

Old shed at the former Cook Hotchkiss farm.  After Oliver Hotchkiss was gone, the farm was owned by the Warwicks and finally by the Ralph Blaker family in the 20th century.  Blaker family members still own a portion of the farm and elsewhere in the village.

Present site of old cheese factory, as well as sorghum molasses, cider and jelly making operations, late 1860's through early 1900's.

"Red Brick House" appears to have been built circa 1853 by Dr. David Brown, who took over the medical practice of Dr. Hamilton in 1844.  Dr. Brown previously  lived on the east end of the village where Dr. Hamilton also lived, just to the east of the Heydenberk house, on the NW corner of  Finch St. (Warwick Rd.) and Main St.; Dr. Brown was son of Elisha Brown of the old settlement at Lowe Rd. and Munson Hwy., and brother of Noah Brown.  The Guss families lived here and in the mid to late 20th century this was the home of the Schaffners.  Annis Darr wrote that Academy students boarded here (girls).  There was once a brick yard to the north on the same farm, and the bricks were probably made there.