Here we hope to give the reader bits and pieces of Tully History and from time to time share pictures we have been given.
1880 - There was a Saw Mill on Lincoln Street in the village, located along the railroad tracks at the southern end of the street. Over the years the building and/or buildings that existed housed the following types of businesses:
Manufactured brooms
1887 - Tully Furniture Factory - specializing in dinning sets and bedroom furniture
1899 - Cheese factory. A group of Tullty Cuitizens purchased it and in 15 months divided $4000 among the stockholders.
Tully Bottling Company. This company was famous for their bottled ginger ale.
Cardner Cheese Box Factory: manufactured 2 pound wooden boxes to ship processed cheese in for Borden and Kraft
1924 - Factory burned and was rebuilt.
Bowling pins, shuffle board courts were then manufactured there.
Machine shop - which burned in 1993.
1884 - Slayton Hotel built. This buildilng was torn down in 1999. The Slayton Hotel (later called Slayton Block) was built on the site of the Caleb Peters Hotel which burned in 1872.
1890 - Empire House, located on the corner of Railroad Street and Clinton built - torn down in 1952 to make way for new Fire House
The Onondaga Hotel (aka Goddard Hotel) was located on the corner of Railroad and Onondaga Streets. Actual date of construction unkniown, but it was purhased by a group of Tylly Citizens calling themselves Tully Hotel Corporation. Shares in this corporation were $100.00 each. Building burned in 1955.
Schools 1848 = Tully Union School was built on the site of the present elementary school. In 1901 it was replaced by a red brick building which bured November 19, 1929. The present structure was dedicated March 9, 1931.
1900 - the first Tully Hose House was on Clinton Street. Torn down in 2008.
1901 - Tully Bank Building was built. This building is still standing
1872 - fire destroyed 12 buildings in downtown Tully in May.
1898 - October, a gigantic fire wiped out most of the business section of downtown Tully. Three buildings and 8 businesses were lost and damage to others sustained. Loss: $26,000 - Insurance $11,600.
Page under construction - last updated on 9/3/09