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Article: FAMILY'S MILL KEEPS GRINDING ON AND ON.(Local)(Column)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- April 4, 2002
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Byline: DICK CASE POST-STANDARD COLUMNIST
If we want to get deep into the hide of Onondaga County history, we need to visit Sheldon and Sumner Palmer at Palmer Feed Mill Inc. at Clark Hollow, southeast in the town of LaFayette.
Palmers have been around LaFayette a while. The first we know of arrived in 1805.
The family's had the mill 132 years. Brothers Sheldon and Sumner's great-grandfather, Avery Palmer, built it for his son, Jirah, in the 1860s. Avery was a preacher.
Palmer Mills sits on the floor of the valley that runs south from Jamesville to Apulia, and beyond. It's a farm lot away from U.S. 20, right where it loops at Big Bend, ...