A resident of my town has
asked me if Yewdall's Mill, featured in the folk song, "The Girl From Yewdall's
Mill," was real or fictitious. The canal song also mentions Fairmount and
Phoenixville and Ginea Hill. French's Gazetteer lists Fairmount as a canal
stop in the town of Camillus in Onondaga County. Phoenixville may be
Phoenix in the town of Schroeppel in Oswego County. Neither French's nor
Spafford's refer to Yewdall's Mill.
Does anyone have any
knowledge of this place?
Mary Jo
Lanphear
Town of Brighton
Historian