BILL GREENFIELD
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Legends & Lore®
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Folklore
- 195 Palmer Ave, Corinth, NY 12822, USA
- 43.243989, -73.826705
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Village of Corinth
BILL GREENFIELD
Inscription
BILL GREENFIELDLUMBERJACK & FOLK HERO WHOSE
TALL TALES DESCRIBED EXPLOITS.
AMONG FEATS, USED CEDAR TREES
AS STILTS IN 1850S TO HELP
CATCH FISH ON PALMER FALLS.
NEW YORK FOLKLORE
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2018
The story goes that in the 1850s, Abner Greenfield’s young son, Bill, a rising folk hero and “growing lumberjack”, pulled up cedar trees at the site of what is now Pagenstecher Park in order to make stilts. He would then use the stilts to catch fish at Palmer Falls.
