Hamlet of Stafford

 

TOWN OF STAFFORD

What is now considered Stafford Village was originally referred to as Transit Storehouse and then Stafford in 1841. The four corners is the site of the first settlement on the Holland Purchase in 1798. The first place of business in the town was the Transit storehouse built of logs by James Brisbane who came in 1798 with a load of goods and supplies for the surveyors employed by Joseph Ellicott to survey the Transit Line. The Indian name for the settlement was “Ya-go-o-geh”, meaning “place of hearing.”

 

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