We Want Your Business History
We get researchers here in the Town of Enfield either via e-mail or they stop by our Town Hall. Often, they are looking for genealogical information, but encompassed within that, they want to know something about the businesses their relatives owned or if their relatives owned a business here in the town.
For the number of businesses that have operated in the Town of Enfield since its inception in 1821 our collections tend to be pretty sketchy when in comes to most businesses.
While we might not be able to capture all the business info we'd like for those organizations that have passed into history, we certainly can try our best to capture the history of those businesses currently in existence. To that end, we have created a Business History Form , which we would like business owners (or those related to business owners) to fill out and turn in to the Enfield Town Historian. (Keep a copy for your records!).
You may fill out the form on this site or print out a pdf copy and mail it back to us.
We know that people are busy, so the form only asks for a summary of information. Business owners are encouraged to donate copies of promotional materials to Town of Enfield Historian, along with a copy of the form. Future researchers will be happy to have the information.
On the Town Historians web site http://home.htva.net/~pumpguy/ you can find a Chapter from the Enfield History book called Business and Doctors. As we collect more data on businesses we will add this to the Chapter.
Thank you.
Sue Thompson
Enfield Town Historian
273-8256 / 272-6412
Enfield Town Hall
168 Enfield Main Road
Ithaca, NY 14850
