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Chautauqua Fish Hatchery & NY’s Muskellunge Fishery

April 28, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Muskellunge courtesy DECChautauqua Fish Hatchery is located on Prendergast Point, midway on the west side of Chautauqua Lake, off State Route 394 near Mayville, in the town of Chautauqua, Chautauqua County, NY. It’s the only hatchery in the New York State that raises pure strain muskellunge – the largest freshwater sportfish in New York. Each spring, hatchery staff collect and fertilize about 1.5-2 million eggs from wild muskellunge, usually from Chautauqua Lake. Fertilized eggs are then hatched and reared at the hatchery. [Read more…] about Chautauqua Fish Hatchery & NY’s Muskellunge Fishery

Filed Under: Nature, Western NY Tagged With: Allegheny River, Chautauqua, Chautauqua County, Chautauqua Fish Hatchery, Chautauqua Lake, DEC, fish, Fisheries, fishing, Great Chazy River, nature, Susquehanna River, Waneta Lake, Wildlife

Battle of Pine Knob Focus of 154th NY Descendants Reunion

April 17, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Map of the Battle of Pine Knob on June 15 1864 by John Heiser (courtesy Tales from the Army of the Potomac)The 37th Annual Reunion of Descendants of the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry (aka, “The Hardtack Regiment”) is set for Saturday, August 5th, at the Delevan Fire Fighters Memorial Training Center in Delevan, northeastern Cattaraugus County, NY. [Read more…] about Battle of Pine Knob Focus of 154th NY Descendants Reunion

Filed Under: Events, History, Western NY Tagged With: 154th New York, Albion, Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County, Civil War, Delevan, Military History, Orleans County

Numerous Wildfires Reported in Upstate New York

April 12, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Patterson fire in Putnam County, April 2023New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers have been busy responding to wildfires as low humid and gusty winds create Red Flag Warnings across much of Upstate.

On Saturday, April 8 at 4:10 p.m., Forest Ranger Sprague responded to a wildland fire on Kuhrt Road in Forestville, in the town of Hanover, Chautauqua County. The local fire department contained the fire before Ranger Sprague arrived about 20 minutes later. [Read more…] about Numerous Wildfires Reported in Upstate New York

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Nature, Western NY Tagged With: Austerlitz, Cambridge, Chautauqua County, Columbia County, Forest Ranger Reports, Hanover, Patterson, Putnam County, Washington County, wildfires

Western New York To Get New 624 Area Code

October 24, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

1940 telephone switchboard operatorsThe New York State Public Service Commission has announced that residential, business and wireless customers within the existing 716 area code region should begin to prepare for the introduction of the new 624 area code, as early as the second quarter of 2024. [Read more…] about Western New York To Get New 624 Area Code

Filed Under: Western NY Tagged With: Allegheny County, Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County, Erie County, Niagara County, Public Service Commission, telephones

Whitetail Deer Rescued From Deer Swing, Soccer Goal Net

October 15, 2022 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

Deer tangled in soccer net at Hartwick College in Otsego CountyAccording to a press release issued by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), on September 27th, Environmental Conservation Officer (ECO) Mead received a report about a deer with its head stuck in a swing set in Jamestown, Chautauqua County. The caller reported the animal was struggling to free itself for an estimated 45 minutes. [Read more…] about Whitetail Deer Rescued From Deer Swing, Soccer Goal Net

Filed Under: Nature, Western NY Tagged With: Chautauqua County, DEC, ECOs, Hartwick College, Jamestown, nature, Oneonta, Otsego County, whitetail deer, Wildlife

DEC Releases Draft Plans for Hanging Bog, Canadaway Creek Wildlife Areas

February 20, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Hanging Bog by Sandy Van VrankenDraft Access and Public Use Plans for Hanging Bog and Canadaway Creek Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) are complete and available for public comment. The draft Access and Public Use Plans’ objectives include maintaining existing features, such as roads, kiosks, parking areas, and gates. The draft plans are located on each property’s webpage. [Read more…] about DEC Releases Draft Plans for Hanging Bog, Canadaway Creek Wildlife Areas

Filed Under: Nature, Recreation, Western NY Tagged With: Allegany County, Canadaway Creek WMA, Chautauqua County, DEC, Hanging Bog WMA, nature, Wildlife

America’s 250th Student Fellowships Funded In Western NY

January 5, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

History student intern Dwight DinkinsThe Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation has awarded SUNY distinguished professor of history Michael Leroy Oberg, the SUNY Geneseo Center for Local and Municipal History, and a consortium of six other colleges and universities, a three-year grant of more than $300K for American War of Independence Semiquincentennial student fellowships.

Several of the institutions in the fellowship program have committed $150K of matching funds for the project, bringing the total to over $450K. [Read more…] about America’s 250th Student Fellowships Funded In Western NY

Filed Under: History, Western NY Tagged With: Allegany County, America's 250th Anniversary, Buffalo, Chautauqua County, Education, Erie County, Finger Lakes, Genesee County, Geneseo Center for Local and Municipal History, Grants, Lake Ontario, Livingston County, Monroe County, Niagara County, Onondaga County, Ontario County, Orleans County, Rochester, SUNY Geneseo, Syracuse, Wayne County, Wyoming County

The Strange Life of James Jesse Strang, New York’s Other Mormon Leader

December 22, 2021 by John Warren 1 Comment

Martyrdom of Joseph and Hiram Smith in Carthage jail, June 27th, 1844 G W Fasel lithograph by C G Crehen printed by Nagel and Weingaertner, NY“I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints in the state of Missouri and punish the crimes committed by her officers that in a few years the government will be utterly overthrown and wasted, and there will not be so much as a potsherd left.”

So it was that Sharon, Vermont native Joseph Smith, who supposed himself a prophet of God and founded what is now the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (informally the LDS or Mormon Church), rather mistakenly announced the demise of these United States on May 6, 1843.

It would be Smith however, who met an untimely fate, murdered and mutilated by a mob of vigilantes in Illinois on June 27, 1844. In the feud that erupted after his death, native New Yorker James Jesse Strang would proclaim himself Smith’s appointed successor. [Read more…] about The Strange Life of James Jesse Strang, New York’s Other Mormon Leader

Filed Under: History, Western NY Tagged With: Cayuga County, Chautauqua County, Crime and Justice, Cultural History, Mormonism, Political History, Religious History, Scipio

New Book On Western New York History Published

September 15, 2017 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

A Thread in the FabricJacob Ludes, III, a western New York native and educator has published what he calls “a micro-history of America,” A Thread in the Fabric: The Chautauqua-Erie Region (Self Published, 2017).

The volume recounts American history from first people to 1865 through the lens of the Chautauqua-Erie Region of Western New York State. [Read more…] about New Book On Western New York History Published

Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: Books, Chautauqua County, Erie County

Fenton History Center’s Pizza and Genealogy Project

May 13, 2015 by Joni Blackman Leave a Comment

fresco(1)Those of us in the local history museum business sometimes struggle to connect with the large segment of the general population that doesn’t see the relevance of history. They are busy with their everyday lives; schedules of work, family and leisure time. Trying to get their attention and then bring them to a history based event can be challenging.

A few years ago at a Fenton History Center Board of Trustee meeting (Fenton History Center is in Jamestown, Chautauqua County, NY) we were brainstorming about how to collect and disseminate more local Italian genealogy and the stories that go with the families involved. One of the Fenton History Center Trustees suggested we hold a pizza judging event. We tabled the idea until last year when we started the “Slice of History Pizza Challenge”. [Read more…] about Fenton History Center’s Pizza and Genealogy Project

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Chautauqua County, Fenton History Center, Genealogy, Immigration, Italian History, Public History

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