Wheatland Center, New York
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Wheatland Center is the rural area in the Town of Wheatland
Wheatland, New York
Wheatland is a town in Monroe County, New York, United States. The population was 4,775 at the 2010 census. The town is home to Genesee Country Village and Museum.The Town of Wheatland is located in the southwest part of the county....

 surrounding the intersection of Wheatland Center and Scottsville-Mumford Road
New York State Route 383
New York State Route 383 is an north–south state highway in Monroe County, New York, in the United States. The southern terminus of the route is at an intersection with NY 36 in the hamlet of Mumford within the town of Wheatland. Its northern terminus is at a junction with NY 31 in...

s. Once known as Hall's Corners, it today shows little evidence of its past.

That past has been described by architect Carl F Schmidt in History of the Town of Wheatland: Scottsville Mumford Garbutt Belcoda Beulah Wheatland Center, first published in Rochester
Rochester, New York
Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. Known as The World's Image Centre, it was also once known as The Flour City, and more recently as The Flower City...

 in 1953 in very limited numbers. In 2002, the Wheatland Historical Association commissioned the Higginson reprint.

Much has changed in the more than half century since Schmidt wrote about Wheatland Center. The wallboard plant went out of business because of more efficient competition. Today, that plant, greatly expanded and improved, serves as a metals reclamation center where, for instance, silver is recovered from spent photographic materials.

The area on the west side of Wheatland Center Road and between North and Scottsville-Mumford Roads once held houses and businesses. Today, there is nothing there but scrub land on the eastern side of the former gravel pit
Gravel pit
Gravel pit is the term for an open cast working for extraction of gravel. Gravel pits often lie in river valleys where the water table is high, so they may fill naturally with water to form ponds or lakes. Old, abandoned gravel pits are normally used either as nature reserves, or as amenity areas...

.

The US Census Bureau
United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census. It also gathers other national demographic and economic data...

 does not maintain demographic
Demographics
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data for Mumford.

External links

  • http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nymonroe/vr/wheatland1869.htm - business directory from 1869
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