How does a town get a name of "Painted Post?"
There's an easy answer to that...and a longer story. The quick answer is the
town was named after a post placed there by Indians which had been painted in a color
combination suitable for some primitive type of communications.
The naming of this community in Steuben County adjacent to Corning, NY goes back to the Colonial Days and the Revolutionary War. At that time white men visiting the area found on this very site (the small park at the Community Square) an oak wood post which was square to a height of fur feet and then octagonal to the top. The surface was painted red and decorated with black figures, about half without heads. There were numerous references to this "painted post" by the early settlers who found several explanations from the Indians who put it there. For some it was regarded as a memorial to a fallen chieftain, for others a marker for assemblies and, a "war post" around which dances were held.
That original post endowed this place with a name which will endure as long as recorded history.By 1808 the first namesake had disintegrated and a fitting substitute was put up. Since then there have been several other replacements and time, wind, and weather have taken their toll. The present monument goes back to about 1950.
The Indian with the bow waves a greeting to visitors at the Community Square in Painted Post today which is in the heart of the downtown business district. It's not far from a major industrial property where an Allegheny field service team was working. During a lunch break, the pictures you see here were taken.
Painted Post is adjacent to Corning, New York where several Allegheny customers are located. Our services to this area are much the same as they are throughout the northeast: hazardous chemical removal for environmentally safe treatment and disposal, environmental clean-up work, and hazardous materials training for those who ship and work with hazardous chemicals and seek to comply with governmental training mandates.
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