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1845 Temperance Monument (replacement)
| Historic Site #: | 06-010 (Exists) Type: B5,F4 | Town: | Macedon | ||
| Site Name: | 1845 Temperance Monument (replacement) | GPS Coordinates: | 43.0941, -77.3198 | ||
| Address: | Macedon Center | ||||
| Description: | |||||
| The monument came about as a result of the Temperance movement in Macedon Center whose Quaker farmers disapproved of boisterous topers . Benjamin Hance, an assistant teacher at the Macedon Academy during 1842-43, its first year of operation, indicates that even Macedon center did not entirely escape the liquor problem in writing: "I see at the Centre the large tavern with the barroom daily thronged with its customers, on the one corner, while a large country store occupies another, and opposite the Friends' meeting house filled to overflowing with God-fearing men and women." | |||||
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| Original Temperance Monument circa 1978. From Wayne County: The Aesthetic Heritage of a Rural Area by Stephen W. Jacobs with photographs by David Plowden, 1979. Page 69 |
| Historic narrative: | |||||
| The original Temperance monument was erected in 1845 in the middle of the intersection. It was damaged twice by automobiles hitting it. This replacement was erected on the grounds of the Orthodox meeting house by the Macedon Historical Society in 1980. The 3 parts of the original monument are embedded in the ground next to the replacement. | |||||
Temperance in Macedon
Wayne County: The Aesthetic Heritage of a Rural Area by Stephen W. Jacobs with photographs by David Plowden, 1979. Page 69