The City directory for 1866 is housed at the Cayuga County Historians office. 1. If you know what denomination they were, The church amnd the Pastor would be listed. 2. Mary Gilmore at the Seymour library History Room has abstracted some of the old newspapers from 1865 on. Please contact her by phone, or by their web papes. She may have the Newspaper Abstrats listings from 1866. 3. The Newspaper Abstracts done by Mable Crosby, former Niles Historian , and Flora Daniels are in 7 Bound Volumes at Seymour Library, and on card files at the Cayuga County Historians office. These cover the time frame from 1799 - 1865. They include many brief accounts, births, deaths and marriages. Please view the County Historians web page for fee schedules.This can be found by your search engine under Cayuga County. Laurel Auchampaugh Owasco Historian