Someone managed to slip in another marker. Instead of commemorating Apalachin's early settler Isaac Harris, this marker said "Joseph Barbara Memorial Bridge" and included a photo of the hamlet's infamous former resident.
 Officials and spectators had a good chuckle over the joke, and no harm was done to the official historical marker.

 On November 14, 1957, New York State Police interrupted a Mafia summit at Joseph Barbara's estate on McFall Road in Apalachin. The raid put Apalachin on the map, and proved that an organized crime syndicate did exist.
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 Left: Carol Sweeney, Town of Owego Supervisor (left) and Tom Libous, NYS Senator (right), share their surprise with the mob of spectators.