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Italian Community Bake Oven
NY 167, Little Falls,
NY,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
43° 2' 20.571468",
-74° 50' 0.84246"
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New York State
Historical Marker
Listed in the National Register of Historic Places |
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The Italian Community Bake Oven is a historic community bake oven located at Little Falls in Herkimer County, New York. It was built about 1891 and is abandoned. The utilitarian structure consists of a large rectangle of stone masonry outer walls enclosing the brick bake oven. The dimensions are approximately 16 feet wide, 20 feet deep, and 6 feet high. It was built to furnish large quantities of bread for Italian immigrant railroad workers in a work camp during 1891-1892.
The oven dates from 1891 when industrialist Alfred Dolge brought the first group of Italian men to an encampment near the oven located in the woods off Route 167 North and from which they would daily leave to build the Dolgeville to Little Falls railroad.
A thorough study of newspapers published in Little Falls and Dolgeville in 1891 and 1892 provided a substantial number of news articles announcing the arrival of Italian work gangs who were hired as excavators for Alfred Dolge's railroad spur which would connect his enterprises in Dolgeville to the New York Central in Little Falls, said Preserve Our Past President Gail Huber. The groups of Italian laborers lived together as bachelors in transient camps, and up to 150 loaves of bread were baked at a time in the community oven.
The oven is accessible from Loomis Street Extension in the city of Little Falls and was used by the immigrants to bake bread to eat.
Italian Community Bake Oven was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on November 08, 2006.
Last updated: 2/9/2016 10:35:14 |
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Italian Community Bake Oven Historical Marker Location Map, Little Falls, New York
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