![]() “After spending many hours compiling these important highs of our village, I have to feel that the men who formed our community knew what direction we should go, and I have tremendous esteem for the people who started with zero and made a solvent and well ordered community over the years. Edick and is taken from the consolidated history of the Village of Lacona, which was prepared at the request of the officers of the village. The following was written in 1979 by Burns D. The present post office was built August 6, 1961. The name of the Post Office changed to Lacona on September 12, 1870. His store contained the Post Office which was opposite the Central Hotel. Robbins, a local merchant as the first postmaster. The East Sandy Creek Post Office was established Mawith Julius S. The Lacona and Sandy Creek Fire Departments were organized in 1885 following many disastrous fires in the villages. In 1878, the Village of Sandy Creek was formed and Lacona followed suit in 1880. ![]() The same era saw the establishment of the Sandy Creek News, the formation of the first local bank and the misadventure of the Syracuse Northern Railroad (a local financial disaster). Even as the hamlets of Sandy Creek and Lacona were often engaged in a hot rivalry, the two villages settled their differences long enough to create a Union School District and to build a brick high school taking in students from the whole area. All nine districts sent in proper reports and showed an average school year of seven months, the same as the whole county average. The History of Oswego County 1789-1877: “The first school was taught by Mamrie Harding in the winter of 18 from a room in her father’s house at Lacona.”Statistics taken from a State Education Department abstract showed that during the 1826 school year there were nine common school districts in the newly formed Town of Sandy Creek. ![]() The earliest known school building in the town was built of logs in 1807.
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