Thank you to the Boy Scouts for the opportunity to make the 1952 dedication of the Masonic Temple available to our community as a free download. It includes the history of our village, firsts in our history, a St. directory and many vintage ads from local merchants and neighboring communities.
Click this link to download the Masonic Temple Lodge No. 130 F. & A.M.
Here's a nice link that contains history of our temple but also has some interesting information about Finley M. King, as well as his photograph, see pages 32 to 34.
Note: 1879 History of Cayuga County credits the first village president as Walter H. Smith but includes the list of the first village board of trustees, see page 311, as well as a list of successive leaders of Port Byron.
