Constable Hall remains a clear reminder of the era when much of the land in Northern New York was settled in the late 1700s. Located on Constableville, in Lewis County, this Federal style limestone mansion with a Greek Revival portico was built in the early 1800s by members of the Constable family.
In 1792, Wiliam Constable, Alexander Macomb, and Daniel McCormick bought nearly four million acres of land known as the Macomb Purchase for 16 cents an acre (encompassing all of Lewis, Jefferson, St. Lawrence and parts of Oswego, Herkimer and Franklin counties). [Read more…] about Constable Hall: A Unique Lewis County House Museum
In November, Jillian Markham O’Hara presented “The Little Voices by Lee Wasmuth: Tug Hill’s Forgotten Author” with the aid of the NYS Tug Hill Commission via Zoom. Shedding light on the serialized novel that appeared in the Watertown Daily Times nearly a hundred years ago and providing insight into the life of her great-uncle, O’Hara peeled back the curtain on a bit of lost 
In January, Governor Kathy Hochul announced $1.8 million in grants to support 27 not-for-profit organizations involved with the stewardship of state parks, trails, historic sites, and other public lands.
In early December, Governor Kathy Hochul signed bill number 
Over the past decade, the number of fishers taken by trappers has declined in the Central Adirondacks, and since the harvest is often proportional to abundance, there is a believed to be a population decline in this area as well. 
This week on “The Historians” podcast, Lynn Herzig describes life in a hamlet on New York’s Tug Hill Plateau over fifty years ago. Herzig is author of Where’d you go? Out! What’d you do? Nothing! Unique memories of growing up in Beaver Falls, NY during the 1950s.