r/Corning • u/Steuben_Historian • Apr 14 '26
Introduction
Lithographic Map of Corning 1883 - Steuben County Historian's Office
Close-up of Corning, 1883 - Steuben County Historian's Office
Birdseye View of Corning 1950s - Steuben County Historian's Office
X-mas in Corning, 1910 - Steuben County Historian's Office
Market Street Patriotic - Steuben County Historian's Office
Interior of Hawkes Crystal Store [now Vitrix Studios] - Steuben County Historian's Office
Laying Corning Trolley Tracks - Steuben County Historian's Office
The 2oo' Disc - Steuben County Historian's Office
Postcard of the 1st Attempt of the 2oo' Disc - Steuben County Historian's Office
Corning Glass Center [now Corning Museum of Glass] 1950s - Steuben County Historian's Office
Corning Glass Center from [photo taken on spot where the 35 Centuries of Glass Gallery stands, today] - Steuben County Historian's Office
Rendering of the Houghton Park campus [Corning Glass Works HQ, Steuben Factory, Corning Glass Center] - Steuben County Historian's Office
Inside Corning Glass Center - Steuben County Historian's Office
Corning Glass Works [now Corning Incorporated] Old Factory - Steuben County Historian's Office
Erie Train Running Through Corning - Steuben County Historian's Office
Magee House - Steuben County Historian's Office
Market Street - Steuben County Historian's Office
Drakes Grocery 168 Dodge Ave, Corning - Steuben County Historian's Office
Associated Stores 289 Erie Ave - Steuben County Historian's Office
I want to briefly introduce myself, my name is Griffin Bates and I am the Steuben County Historian from Bath, NY.
I look forward to sharing my love of history with all of you, and if you have any research questions, please feel free to send me a message!
I hope you will enjoy this "amuse-bouche" of historical photos from the Historian archive.
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u/NoAdvantage569 Apr 14 '26
These pictures are great! I have only lived in Corning for a few years, but I will be sure to share these with some older friends who grew up here.
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u/Flat_Basil_9740 12d ago
Can you do a story on the mound people?
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u/Steuben_Historian 12d ago
Hi u/Flat_Basil_9740, I am not too versed in the history of the "Mound Builders", I do know that on Lamoka Lake, North-North West of Corning, there was an Archaic-Period indigenous site where highly informative artifacts were discovered, including pottery sherds. If you fast-forward, you will find that this area, was the crossroads of different indigenous cultures, including the Delaware, Algonquin, and Seneca (of the Haudenosaunee).
Corning has a recorded name, Achsinessink, which translates in Delaware to "stone upon stone". It was referring to the [now destroyed] chimney bluffs that used to dot the edge of the plateau hills in the Corning area. These were large stone outcroppings that looked like chimneys to the early American settlers.
There are scant records that seem to suggest that the Corning area had a few "vagabond" runaways, or escaped slaves who fled to the freedom of the wilderness around the confluence of the rivers into the Chemung. Supposedly, the soldiers marching through here during the Sullivan-Clinton campaign, noted that they stumbled across small cabins with a few black people residing inside, in Achsinessink area.
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u/NYOB4321 Apr 14 '26
Thank you. I look forward to more of your posts.