VILLAGE OF BAINBRIDGE NY
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Selected Bainbridge History
1791  Town of Jericho formed and officials elected 4-19-1791
1813  Church and meeting house burned.
1814  Town’s name changed to Bainbridge from Jericho
1829  Village of Bainbridge chartered.  Richard Juliand elected as first Village president, election held May 5, by-laws for Village adopted on May 28
1857  South Bainbridge renamed Afton
1919  Borden buys Casein Co. Factory
1924  American Plastics formed
1966 On January 7, a freight train heading to Albany jumped the tracks at the downtown rail crossing.  Several track side structures and houses, including the Fire House, were destroyed.  The crossing guard and his wife were killed in their home (next to the tracks) and many others were injured.
1971  Marshal Andrews, Village Clerk, retires after 31 years of service.
1981  Police Chief Bill Payne retires after 40 years of service to the Village.
2006  From June June 26 through June 28 the combination of tropical moisture and a stalled cold front produced record river flooding across portions of the Upper Susquehanna, Delaware and Chenango River Basins.  River level reached 27 feet in Bainbridge.

Former Mayors*

1829-1833  Richard Juliand
1834  William Sayre
1835  Levi Bigelow
1836-37  William Sayre
1838  Charles Nicholes
1839  Henry Redfield
1840  Elisha Bishop
1841  Hiram Schrom
1842  Arba Haynard
1843  Hiram Schrom
1844 Moses Burgess
1845 Blin Sill
1846 William Sayre
1847  Stephen Brown
1848  R. W. Juliand
1849  Stephen Brown
1850-51  Wm. H. McCollom
1852  Henry A. Clark
1853  William Sayre
1854  O.B. Tyler
1855 A.A. Comstock
1856  William Sayre
1857  Richard Griswold
1858  D. D. Bullock
1859-1860  H.A. Clark
1861  Joseph Kirby
1862  Aristo B. Smith
1863  William W. Davis
1864-65  Joseph Julian
1866  William W. Davis
1867  George Winsor
1868  Isaac Sterling
1869  Charles Bixby
1870-1871  Joseph Juliand
1872  Brown Dimmock
1873  William Davis
1874  Clark Butts
1875-76  Brown Dimmock
1877  William Davis
1878  Charles Priest
1879  Clark Butts
1880-82  Elliot Danforth
1883-84  Charles Bixby
1885 Chris Hynes

1886-88  Isaac H. Wilsey
1889-90  Don A. Gilbert
1891  H.D. Copley
1892  C.M. Priest
1893-94  Isaac H. Wilsey
1895-96  Adelbert L. Palmer
1897-98  Don A. Gilbert
1899 Clarence E. Clark
1900-02  Clarence E. Clark
1903-07  J.M. Roberts
1908  Edward Danforth
1909  Ralph Kirby
1910  Frank J. Fletcher
1911-15  Thomas Collins
1916-18  George F. Lyon
1919-26  Homer O. Owens
1927  Herman C. Newell
1928-29  George E. Howland
1930-33  Austin Finch
1934  Fred Neidlinger
1935  A.R. Finch
1936-39  Orson Thorp
1940-41  Lincoln A. Orvis
1942-47  John Parsons
1948-51  Walter Roider
1952-53  Milton Simonds
1954-55  John A. Parsons
1956-59  Milton Simons
1960-61 John A. Parsons
1962-63  W.E. Vawter
1964-66  Raymond W. Holman
1967-71  William Croak
1972-79  Andrew Peterson
1980-82  Carl Hutchinson
1983  Louis Caracciolo
1984-87  James Monahan
1988-91  John Hyzer
1992-94  Floyd Prouty
1995-97  James Winn
1998-00  John Hyzer
2000-04  Andy Bauerle
2004   Tim Regan 
2004-16  Phillip “Chick” Darling 

*From F. Prouty, “Our Village Government”, 1999

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