GLOVERSVILLE

Lake View Grove

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In 1921 Harvey E. Reese of Gloversville and Edward F. Gustin of Johnstown created the Lake View Grove subdivision in nearby Caroga, NY.  Located on the shore of Caroga Lake, the subdivision consisted of 62 lots on Balsam, Pine, Grove, and Lake View Avenues.  Deeds signed and submitted by the two developers to the Fulton County Clerk's Office contained the following racial covenant:

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Fulton Terrace

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Grafton Johnson, a prominent Indianapolitan whose “real estate holdings included property in sixty-three cities in ten states ①," developed Fulton Terrace in Gloversville in 1923.  The subdivision consisted of 203 lots on Marvin, Myrtle, and Arlington Avenues, Summit and East Streets, including 6 lots fronting East Fulton Street.

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Newspaper ads for the subdivision appearing in the Gloversville Morning Herald proclaimed that lots were "Restricted to Americans Only!" and that land would only be sold to "American Citizens who can read and write the English language."  Although literacy requirements are absent from deeds in the Fulton Terrace subdivision, Johnson did sign and submit deeds that included the following racial restrictive covenant:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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① “Grafton Johnson, Capitalist, is Dead.”  The Indianapolis Times (Indianapolis, Indiana), Thu, Aug 16, 1934, p. 1.  Accessed via newspapers.com

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