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Cow barn unroofed, Geneva, N.Y., Cyclone (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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• swanq said:

  From www.genevany.org/50/ '1912 Cyclone hit SW edge of Geneva on September 1; razed huge barns on White Springs Farm. ' And from www.belhurstcastle.com/whitehistory.html 'Sunday, September 1, 1912, was a day of disaster for White Springs Farm and the immediate vicinity. A cyclone wrought havoc, leveling the main group of dairy barns and uprooting most of the beautiful elms on the farm. A three-quarter ton dinner bell from one of the barns was found a half-mile away. Miraculously, there was no loss of human life, though four or five calves were killed. Clean-up operations were extensive, and tree experts were brought in to salvage what trees could be saved. Mr. Lewis sold the Guernseys, rather than replace the barns. By 1920 the cattle business was over.' Since then, the farm has apparently been a poultry farm, an orchard, a home for the elderly, and is now a hotel and winery.

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