Walking Tour-62 Buffalo Street-Walking Tour
(West Side of Street)

Tax records indicate a building on this lot by 1917. There are no available photos of this first house. The house seen on the site now was constructed in the last twenty years.

Official Property Description:

• Lot 9 Block 8 of Nelson W. Clark's Original Plat of the Village in the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20 in Independence Township.
• Lot 36 of the Assessor's Plat.

Significant Property History:

[A Synopsis Of Property Transfers Derived From Abstracts
(when available) And Periodic Changes In Ownership Or
Assessed Value Derived From Township Tax Records]

• 1831 United States to Butler Holcomb.
• 1833 Butler Holcomb & wife, Mary, To Roswell/Roosevelt Holcomb, the west 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20.
• 1833 Butler Holcomb & wife, Mary, To Roswell/Roosevelt Holcomb, and wife, Elvine Holcomb, and Daniel B. Holcomb and wife, Alimira, to Jeremiah Clark, the south part of the west 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20.
• 1839 Jeremiah Clark to Nelson Washington Clark, the undivided 1/2 of the west 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20 commencing.......
• 1842 Jeremiah Clark & wife, Polly, to Nelson W. Clark, the south part of the west 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20. Also other land.
• 1842 Jeremiah Clark & Nelson W. Clark to Village of Clarkston (Original plat of the Village).
• 1844 Nelson W. Clark, Lot 9 Block 8, assessed value $6.
• 1847 Jeremiah Clark, Lots 3, 11, 9 & 13 Block 8, assessed value $20.
• 1850 Nelson Abbey, Lots 4 & 9 Block 8, assessed value $30.
• 1856 N. D. Bingham, Lots 10 & 9.
• 1857 N. D. Bingham, Lots 10 & 9, assessed value $500.
• 1858 Amanda Bingham, Lots 10 & 9, assessed value $500.
• 1863 Amanda Bingham, Lots 10 & 9, assessed value $300. The tax records listed a "house", which was on Lot 10, facing Main St.
• 1889 Frank Yeager
  Emma Petty, Lot 9 Block 8, assessed value $150.
• 1900 Jedediah Yeager, Lot 9 Block 8, assessed value $100.
• 1914 Harriet L. Bump, Lot 9 Block 8.
• 1917 Harriet L. Bump, Lot 9 Block 8, assessed value $1000.
• 1920 Harriet L. Bump.
• 1925 Harriet L. Bump, Lot 9, assessed value $800.
• 1927 Ed. Fuller, assessed value $600.
• 1939 Ed. Fuller, assessed value $600.
• 1956 Emma Young.