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Julie Madlin

Ogdensburg and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

March 1, 2016 by Julie Madlin 18 Comments

ogdensburg Our current flu season is a reminder that not so long ago the 1918 Influenza Pandemic – known then as the “Spanish Flu” or “La Grippe” –  killed over 22 million people. It sickened thousands in Northern New York and killed hundreds.

The first documented case occurred on March 11, 1918 at Camp Funston, Kansas. By the end of that week more than 500 soldiers had been sickened. Influenza first spread through army bases, but by September 5th the Massachusetts State Department of Health warned that “unless precautions are taken, the disease in all probability will spread to the civilian population,” which it did. By October 22nd the city of Philadelphia’s death rate was 700 times higher than normal for a single week. [Read more…] about Ogdensburg and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Influenza, Medical History, Ogdensburg, St Lawrence County, womens history

Make History Accessible With QR Codes

January 14, 2015 by Julie Madlin 5 Comments

Harwood QRAs the recently appointed historian for the City of Ogdensburg I was stunned at the amount of historical artifacts and research that I had inherited that somehow was crammed into a very small space.  I had always been interested in local history and in a previous life had worked as an archivist at the Ogdensburg Public Library, until teaching called me.

Twenty years later I was given the task of not only preserving Ogdensburg’s history, but making it accessible to others. [Read more…] about Make History Accessible With QR Codes

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Ogdensburg, Online Resources, Public History, Technology

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