Ithaca, New York, USA
1895 - Ithaca

Ithaca, a handsome city, the capital of Tompkins co., N.Y., is nearly 1 mile from the head or S. end of Cayuga Lake, 37 miles S. of Auburn, 40 miles E.S.E. of Geneva, and about 35 miles N.N.E. of Elmira. Three streams, named Cayuga Inlet, Fall Creek, and Six Mile Creek, here enter the lake. Ithaca is built partly on an alluvial plain, and partly on the slopes of high hills which enclose that # on all sides except the N. and are nearly 600 feet higher than the lake. Few towns in the state enjoy such beautiful and picturesque scenery. The long, deep, and narrow lake is a link in the chain of the inland navigation of the state, and communicates with the Erie Canal. Steam boats ply daily between this place and the village of Cayuga. Ithaca is the S. terminus of the Cayuga Southern Railroad, and is on the Utica, Ithaca & Elmira Railroad, which connects here with the Geneva, Ithaca & Sayre Railroad. Another railroad (a part of the Delaware, LackaWanna & Western Railroad) extends from this place to Qwego. The city contains 14 churches, 2 or 3 national banks, the Ithaca Academy, a free library, several hotels, and printing-offices which issue 1 or 2 daily and 5 weekly newspapers. Here are manufactures of flour, paper, carriages, farming-implements, iron castings, machinery, guns, clocks, type-writers, &c. Ithaca is the seat of Cornell University (non-sectarian), organized in 1868 and endowed with funds amounting to about $2,500,000. It is open to both sexes, and occupies several fine stone edifices situated on an eminence. It has a faculty of about 100 instructors, an attendance of about 1500 students, and a library of 87,000 volumes. Pop. in 1890, 11,079.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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