Timeline

		Community		208 Chemung Street		World
	1700
	1775					American Revolution
	1776					United States Declaration Of Independence
	1779					Battle of Newtown
	1781					American Victory
	1783			General Thomas Thomas		Treaty of Paris
	1795	John Shepard's land purchase of all the site of Waverly, from General Thomas.		John Shepard
	1812			1813 Isaac Shepherd, had farm and outbuildings		War of 1812
	1821	Chemung Turnpike laidout
	1824			Aaron Jackson, had a blacksmith shop on site of main house
	1830's	Scattered homes on Chemung street
	1835			Gilbert Hallett bought out Elder Jackson's house (close by) and 45 acres of land (had previously been Isaac Shepard's land)
	1842	Stores being built on Broad street
	1846			Andrew S. Rice
	1849	New York and Erie Railroad opens for traffic		Andrew Rice - octagon home (our yard on Chemung street) and Thomas J. Brooks - 1/2 of current Chemung St. side (east 1/2) and 1/2 front or east side of 9 Athens St.
	1850	Azariah J. VanAtta moves to Waverly from Barton. (designer and builder of 208 Chemung street)		April 1, 1850 Thomas J. Brooks and wife, Cynthia. (part of property where current main house stands)
	1851	First newspaper "Waverly Luminary"
	1852	Planting of 400 maple trees on principal roads
	1853			rectangular home shows up on map where current main house is
	1854	Waverly Incorporated
	1857	Dewitt Slaughter and family moved to Waverly		T.J. Brooks and wife to Dewitt Slaughter for $1,500. (Rectangular shaped house on site of current main house)
	1858			Feb. 9, 1858, Rice sells his octagon home to Amelia J. Foster and Henry S. Foster , who then on June 25, 1858 sell it to Edwin and Libbie Mills (octagon house and land up to Slaughter's, including current day 3, 5, 7, and 9 Athens street)
	1861			Caroline Slaughter died		Civil War Starts
	1864	Dewitt Slaughter was one of the trustees for Waverly.		1863, Samuel Slaughter buys building on corner of Waverly and Broad street to become his Corner Drug Store
	1865					End of Civil War
	1868	Mark Twain stops over at Waverly on his way to Elmira on the Erie railroad.		Antoinette Slaughter died
	1873	Village was lighted with gas.		Samuel Slaughter married Charlotte Wells
	1874	Citizen's Bank organized. Samuel Slaughter was vice president of Citizen's Bank.
	1875			Edwin Mills and Libbie B to John S. Conkling (about 1 acre and octagon house).
	1875			Dewitt Slaughter died, leaving home to his son, Samuel Slaughter.
	1876	Samuel Slaughter also owned house at 146 Chemung street.		John S. Conkling and Addie to Charles A. Luckey (octagon house)
	1877			In September, Luckey to John S, Conkling (octagon house) In October, John S. Conkling and wife, Adeline to Samuel W. Slaughter (octagon house and lot immediately to the east for $2,600). At this point in time, the "Slaughter" family property consisted of 208 Chemung Street, 9 and 7 Athens Street.
	1880	Waverly Water Company organized. Samuel Slaughter was vice president.		Octagon home moved to 7 Athens street in 1879
	1881
	1887
	1888			Carriage house at 9 Athens street is seen on a Sanborn map.
	1890	Mary Gertrude Slaughter is born to Samuel and Charlotte Slaughter
	1891
	1892	Village Hall is erected
	1894			Samuel Slaughter died, leaving property to his wife, Charlotte.
	1899	Theodore Roosevelt in Waverly
	1900	First horseless carriage arrived (Dr. Ellsworth Gamble)
	1910	Old Home Celebration
	1912			Charlotte Wells Slaughter died. Property left to daughter, Gertrude Slaughter, 22 years of age.
	1914	Gertrude Slaughter is engaged to George Brinker Knapp		Gertrude married George B. Knapp Feb. 2, 1915
	1916			Charlotte Knapp, daughter of Gertrude and George is born.
	1914-1918					World War I
	1922					Prohibition in the United States
	1925					Only 50% of homes in the United States had electric power to them.
	1927			George Brinker Knapp died.
	1929					The Great Depression
	1930	Sometime after 1930, the octagon home was no longer at 7 Athens Street, Waverly, NY		Census shows: Gertrude and Charlotte Knapp at 208 Chemung street along with Gertrude's mother -in -law, Frances Knapp
	1939					World War II starts
	1945			7 Athens street is an empty lot as early as 1942, maybe in 1931. Gertrude Knapp sells to Mary I. Fralick. Fralick turns main house into apartments and then carriage house and other outbuilding		World War II ends
	1949			1947-48, carriage house is converted into two apartments.
	1950			7 Athens street sold off to Mary Alamo for a building lot and current home was built at 7 Athens street.
	1954	Hurricane Hazel was said to have taken down several trees on Chemung Street.
	1956	Mary Gertrude Slaughter Knapp died. She was the only child of Samuel and Charlotte Slaughter.
	1958			Mary I. Fralick to Robert G. Callison and Vera C. Callison.
	1970			Land contract to Richard H. Morris and wife, Ruth M. Morris
	1974			Re-do of land contract since Robert Callison died.
	1976			Vera C. Coveney, formerly Vera C. Callsion, to Richard and Ruth Morris
	1979			Richard and Ruth Morris to William J. Rynone and Scott Jewell.
	1982			Returned back to Richard and Ruth Morris
	1985	Charlotte S. Knapp died in Los Angeles , CA, returned to Waverly for burial.(Glenwood Cemetery)
	1989
	1992	Mary I Fralick died in Florida.
	1995	Vera Coveney died.
	2010 2017			Amy and Brad Zehr purchase, March 17, 2010 January 17, 2017 Amy and Brad purchase 7 Athens street rejoining the property