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Sites of Lincoln Conspiracy Talk Virtual Program

April 10, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

attack on the bedridden Secretary of State William H SewardThe Seward House Museum has announced Sites of Conspiracy, a virtual talk set for Tuesday, April 13th. [Read more…] about Sites of Lincoln Conspiracy Talk Virtual Program

Filed Under: Events, History, Western NY Tagged With: Seward House Museum

Accessibility Improvements At FDR Four Freedoms State Park

April 10, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Franklin D Roosevelt Four Freedoms State ParkWork to expand accessibility has started at Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park in New York City. Under a $1 million project scheduled to conclude in late spring, work will include a new incline platform lift at the granite Grand Stairway and renovation of two stone pathways to enhance accessibility. [Read more…] about Accessibility Improvements At FDR Four Freedoms State Park

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: New York City, State Parks

South Street Seaport Historic District (Historians Podcast)

April 9, 2021 by Bob Cudmore Leave a Comment

The Historians LogoThis week on The Historians Podcast Jim Kaplan reports on the history of Manhattan’s South Street Seaport and a proposal to build a new high rise in the area of that historic district. [Read more…] about South Street Seaport Historic District (Historians Podcast)

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: Manhattan, New York City, Podcasts, South Street Seaport

When Clifton Park Had Its Own Amusement Park

April 8, 2021 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

Trolley stop, Rexford Amusement Park, c. 1920. Roller coaster and merry-go-round just inside the main entrance to the parkOn April 3rd, 1935, wrecking crews began the demolition of buildings and rides that comprised an amusement park in Rexford, Saratoga County, NY.

Few remember when Clifton Park had its own amusement park. It was located on the Mohawk River in Rexford near the Alplaus border from 1906 to 1933. [Read more…] about When Clifton Park Had Its Own Amusement Park

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, History Tagged With: Amusement Parks, Clifton Park, Saratoga County, Saratoga County History Center

Columbia County Road Tour Explores Local Movie History

April 8, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

1737 Luykas Van Alen HouseThe Columbia County Historical Society (CCHS) has announced the return of “Drive Through History,” a series of free, self-guided road trips. [Read more…] about Columbia County Road Tour Explores Local Movie History

Filed Under: Arts, Capital-Saratoga, Events, History Tagged With: Columbia County, Columbia County Historical Society, Film History

New Novel From Ray Phillips Tells Story of Native Twins

April 8, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

laughing_rain_and_awakens_corn_03 (2) coverBook purchases made through this link support New York Almanack’s mission to report new publications relevant to New York State.

Ray E. Phillips’s new novel Laughing Rain and Awakens Corn: Look-the-Same Girls in the Land of the Cloud-Splitter (Self-Published, 2021) looks at how life in early America is experienced by twin girls, Laughing Rain and Awakens Corn from a Mohawk clan in an Adirondack village. [Read more…] about New Novel From Ray Phillips Tells Story of Native Twins

Filed Under: Arts, Books, History Tagged With: Books, Cultural History, Native American, Native American History

Train Ferries: The Hudson River’s Most Unusual Steamers

April 7, 2021 by John Warren 4 Comments

Pioneer Hudson River Night Line auto ferry steamboat and former train ferry A Fred Saunders scrapbook Catskill Public LibraryAmong the many hundreds of steamboats plying the Hudson River when that waterway served as a primary method of moving people and freight, a few stand out as unusual. The most remarkable of these is perhaps the railroad transports, used to ferry railroad cars.

Also known as train ferries, or car ferries (not to be confused with auto ferries), they were fitted with railway tracks and doors at each end to allow for loading and unloading. [Read more…] about Train Ferries: The Hudson River’s Most Unusual Steamers

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, New York City Tagged With: Albany, Hudson River, Newburgh, NYC, railroads, Steamboating, Transportation History

Origins of American Manufacturing

April 7, 2021 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben_franklins_worldHave you ever stopped to think about how the United States became a manufacturing nation? Have you ever wondered how the United States developed not just products, but the technologies, knowledge, and machinery necessary to manufacture or produce various products?

Lindsay Schakenbach Regele has.

[Read more…] about Origins of American Manufacturing

Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: Books, Podcasts

Upcoming 1950 Census Release Will Offer New Details About Life In The U.S., Abroad

April 6, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

a Farmer Supplies Answers to the 232 Questions on the Farm ScheduleThe first U.S. federal population census was taken in 1790, and has been repeated every ten years since. The first censuses were often quite incomplete.

A complete list of all white people was not even a goal until the 1850 Census and ever since many have been missed in the count, especially women, the poor, those without homes, immigrants, people of color, slaves, free blacks, and indigenous people.

Still, decennial censuses can be enormously valuable reach tools – especially when it comes to genealogy and local history.  [Read more…] about Upcoming 1950 Census Release Will Offer New Details About Life In The U.S., Abroad

Filed Under: History Tagged With: 1950 Census, Demographics, Genealogy, National Archives

Small Farms in April in the Nineteenth Century

April 6, 2021 by Maury Thompson Leave a Comment

S. Timmons farm, Walla Walla County, ca. 1892  Photo by F. Fortin, Courtesy UW Special Collections (WAS0304)April is the month when Spring weather typically calls out, “Ready or not, here I come,” and compels nature and humans of New York to come out from winter hiding.

“Happy is the farmer who has got everything ready for the active labors of the coming season. But no matter how thoroughly he is prepared there will always be plenty to do,” the agriculture columnist wrote in the April 25th, 1874 Ticonderoga Sentinel.

The task list was long and varied in the month of getting ready to make hay while the sun shines. [Read more…] about Small Farms in April in the Nineteenth Century

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, Food, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, Western NY Tagged With: Agricultural History, local farms, local food, Newspapers, Spring, weather

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