This is the little hamlet in the northeast corner of the town that has been growing less and less for forty years until at the present time there is only a church, a school, a hotel, a blacksmith shop, a shoe shop and wagon shop, that are worthy of mention and about twenty dwellings.

The street is wide, without shade trees or walks, but the dwellings and yards are in pretty fair condition.”

(Oran’s claim to fame came when the Chenango Branch of the West Shore Railroad Co. was completed to Oran in 1872. Now connected to Syracuse, farmers could get their products, dairy particularly, to Syracuse and beyond on the Canal. It was also a convenient means for business and shopping trips.)