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Early Images of the Adirondacks: Science, Art, Tourism

October 22, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

View of Caldwell, Lake George, by William Tolman CarltonThe first Europeans to see the Adirondack landscape of Northern New York came to explore, to document important military operations and fortifications, or to create maps and scientifically accurate images of the terrain, flora, and fauna.

These early illustrations filled practical needs rather than aesthetic ones.  In 1818, the Adirondacks was still a mysterious “wild, barren tract…covered with almost impenetrable Bogs, Marshes & Ponds, and the uplands with Rocks and evergreens.” [Read more…] about Early Images of the Adirondacks: Science, Art, Tourism

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts, Capital-Saratoga, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Recreation Tagged With: Adirondack Museum, Adirondacks, Art History, Early America, Instagram, Maps, Museums-Archives-Historic Sites, Natural History, Tourism

Dam History: The Proposed Oxbow Reservoir Project

October 7, 2020 by Mike Prescott Leave a Comment

Proposed-Oxbow-DamThe Raquette River, from Raquette Falls to the State Boat Launch on Tupper Lake, is one of the nicest stretches of flat-water anywhere in the Adirondacks. Paddling this river corridor under a clear cerulean blue sky, on a sunny autumn day with the riverbanks ablaze in orange and red, is exquisite. For me, though, the river’s history is as captivating as its natural beauty. [Read more…] about Dam History: The Proposed Oxbow Reservoir Project

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Adirondack Dams, Axton Landing, Follensby Pond, Geography, Geology, Maps, Oxbow Lake, paddling, Raquette River, Stony Creek, The Wild Center, Tupper Lake

Huguenot Pirates on the Barbary Coast and the Mapping of New Amsterdam

October 5, 2020 by Jaap Harskamp Leave a Comment

Johannes Vingboons View of New AmsterdamHuguenots were followers of Jean Calvin’s teachings for which they were persecuted in Catholic France. Many were forced to leave the country and settled in the Netherlands, Switzerland, England, and South Africa.

Nicolas Martiau was one of a number of refugees who made their way to America (Virginia) via England. A surveyor and engineer in the service of Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntington, he was an ancestor of George Washington. [Read more…] about Huguenot Pirates on the Barbary Coast and the Mapping of New Amsterdam

Filed Under: Arts, History, New York City Tagged With: Brooklyn, Dutch History, Mapmakers, Maps, New Amsterdam, New Netherland

Adirondack Survey Markers: A Conservation Minute

August 28, 2020 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

On many hikes, I never truly feel like I have reached the summit of a peak until I’ve found a tiny metal disc set into the rock.

These small plates of metal are called survey markers, or benchmarks, and they are put in place by surveyors to mark important points on the Earth’s surface. [Read more…] about Adirondack Survey Markers: A Conservation Minute

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Catamount Mountain, Environmental History, High Peaks, hiking, Lake Placid Land Conservancy, Maps, nature, surveying, Verplanck Colvin, Wildlife

Adirondack Mapping Exhibit in Ticonderoga, Program Planned

August 17, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

mapping the adirondacks exhibitThe Ticonderoga Historical Society is set to present a free public program “Mapping the Adirondacks,” on Friday, August 21st at 7 pm at the Hancock House in Ticonderga.

“Mapping the Adirondacks” will open the museum’s newest exhibit, featuring more than 18 military, political and romance maps from its collection, some on display for the first time. [Read more…] about Adirondack Mapping Exhibit in Ticonderoga, Program Planned

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Events, History Tagged With: exhibits, Maps, Ticonderoga, Ticonderoga Historical Society, Verplanck Colvin

New Website Maps 1660 New York

July 12, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

new amsterdam mapCreated by the New Amsterdam History (NAHC) Center, Mapping Early New York, is digital map with a time-slider linked to information from the Castello Plan of 1660.

The database includes information on families from detailed sources and connected with map features, particularly tax parcels. [Read more…] about New Website Maps 1660 New York

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: Genealogy, Maps, New Amsterdam, New Amsterdam History Center, New Netherland, New York City, New York State Museum

47th Annual Rochester Antiquarian Book Fair Oct 19th

September 27, 2019 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Rochester book fest

Three dozen dealers from more than a half dozen states, from Minnesota to the Carolinas, be in Rochester October 19, to offer a trove of biblio-treasures including rare, collectible, first edition and scholarly titles as well as prints, maps, photographica, illuminated manuscripts and collectible ephemera.

Dealer inventories embrace a broad breadth of subject categories: art, advertising, politics, religion, sociology and psychology, medicine and science fiction, mystery and cooking are among the centuries of printed culture to be on view. [Read more…] about 47th Annual Rochester Antiquarian Book Fair Oct 19th

Filed Under: Events, History, Western NY Tagged With: Books, ephemera, Maps, RIT Press, Rochester

Mapping Empire in the Chesapeake

September 25, 2019 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben_franklins_worldHow do empires come to be? How are empires made and who makes them?

What role do maps play in making empires?

Christian Koot is a Professor of History at Towson University and the author of A Biography of a Map in Motion: Augustine Herrman’s Chesapeake (NYU Press, 2017). Christian has researched and written two books about the seventeenth-century Anglo-Dutch World go better understand empires and how they are made. He joins us in this episode of Ben Franklin’s World to take us through his research and to share what one specific map, Augustine Herrman’s 1673 map Virginia and Maryland, reveals about empire and empire making. [Read more…] about Mapping Empire in the Chesapeake

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Biography, British Empire, Chesapeake, Dutch History, Early America, Early American History, Empires, Mapmakers, Maps, Maryland, New Netherland, Podcasts, Virginia

Adirondack Museum Grant Will Digitize Maps, Photos

February 28, 2019 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

map of mc intyre iron coAdirondack Experience, The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake (ADKX), has received a $60,500 grant from the Digitizing Hidden Collections program of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), an independent, nonprofit organization that forges strategies to enhance research, teaching, and learning environments in collaboration with libraries, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning. [Read more…] about Adirondack Museum Grant Will Digitize Maps, Photos

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Adirondack Experience, Geography, Grants, Historic Preservation, Maps

Rome, NY Map History Talk Sept 12th

September 3, 2018 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

City of Rome mapMuseum Educator Patrick Reynolds is set to discuss a variety of maps from the region using modern geo-spatial technology to overlay older maps onto current maps of the Rome area, on Wednesday, September 12th at the Oneida County History Center.

County atlas’s and Sanborn fire insurance maps will be discussed as a tool for researchers as well as some recently uncovered maps found at the Rome Historical Society. This program takes place in the History Center’s main gallery. Doors open at 5 pm, presentation begins at 5:30 pm. [Read more…] about Rome, NY Map History Talk Sept 12th

Filed Under: Events, History, Mohawk Valley Tagged With: Maps, Oneida County History Center, Rome

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