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| | legends and traditions of a northern county |
 | | The facts were forgotten, and the story was considered a pretty legend of Indian customs, until there was found, in the Otsego County Clerk's office, the deed of a lot of land, described as being "In Sir William Johnson's Dreamland Tract." This located the land as lying along the Susquehanna not far from Unadilla. |
 | | Most of the ghost stories and tales belong to the houses still occupied, the others stand lonely and often for-bidding, keeping within their empty walls and open doors and staring windows the mystery of their past and the story of their one-time occupants. |
 | | The story of Clintonville or, as it was often called, Clinton Mills, is a good illustration of the fate which is overtaking most of the small manufacturing hamlets of the County. |
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