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User talk:Fingerlakes54 From Meta, a Wikimedia project coordination wiki Jump to: navigation, search [edit] Yale, New York--Tiny Hamlet in the Finger Lakes Wine Region --Upstate New York

Yale New York is a tiny Hamlet in upstate New York. It's population is about 25 people, 10 dogs, with a always changing population of cats. Once a railroad station on the "New Road" of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, the station was closed and torn down in the mid 1930's. It's elevation is 602 feet above sea level, and the terrain is rolling open farmland, with a sprinkling of orchards and small vineyards. Once the summer home of Harry C. Post of Long Island, and the then famous Yale Farm owned by a Mr. James McDonald, a Yale University graduate and well known Insurance Company owner in Manhattan. The " Downtown" area is located near the railroad crossing on Yale Station Road. Prior to the severe economic depression of the 1930's it had a fine wood structure railway depot, a coal business, lumber business, a small general store located in the parlor of a large home located on the west side of the tracks,creamery, barber shop in the waiting room of the station, and also some hardware supplies kept in the waiting room also. Mr. Harry Slocum was the railroad agent as well as a local town justice. Many folks were married on his front porch of his home across the dirt main street from the railroad station. Though other surrounding county roads have seen home development, the residents of Yale still enjoy open farmland as their main view. It has in by strange design avoided development and takes on a quality of a typical small community that would appear in well known Fingerlaker's Rod Sterling's Twilight Zone. It is still a place where a man can live to his full measure in a almost 19th century type of way. One well known resident lives there where he grew up as a boy, and continues to write about rural life in the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's. Most know him simply as Greg Miller, but is known to most of the news and commentary world as "Count Gregor"or officially H.E. Count Gregory von Richter of the the old aristocratic Richter Family Of Judges of the Old Holy Roman Empire. His small and somewhat disheveled farm is known as "The Plantation At Yale". The Miller family lead by Greg's oldest daughter -June- has restored a 1830's farm house not far from "Downtown Yale". For a average size home for that period it was a massive effort, but the results are remarkable. There is some talk of bringing the commercial life back to Yale but in a somewhat pre 1930's way.