1881 Town House Sells for $27 Million FamilySearch Reaches One Billion Records NYS Capitol Honored for Preservation Buffalo Project Wins Preservation Award Syrian World Heritage Site Destroyed Historian Ranked Top Job #25 Trinity Church Divided By Wealth Teachers Union Opposes Testing NY Brewers Tap Plattsburgh History A NY Ski Industry Titan Dies
Rochester Project Wins Preservation Award Digital Public Library of America Launches Data Shows Decline in History Majors Testing Revolt Underway in Saranac Lake TAUNY Getting Preservation Award Local 8th Grader’s Parody Makes WaPo Lake George Cabin Restoration Planned Demolition at St. Patrick’s Church 6 Months for Fake Book Deals NY History Conference Set
The Potsdam area of St. Lawrence County is home to many citizens of great accomplishment. The achievement list is extensive: a US Secretary of State- a Nobel Peace Prize winner- a judge on the World Court- an attorney known as the “Trust Buster” for defeating multiple gigantic corporations, including Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company- and a […]
Advisory Board Offers NPS Strategies 17th Cent. Cemetery Into A Park? Architectural Historians Mtg in Buffalo State Parks To Receive Some TLC Corrections Proposes Closing Jail Libraries Utica Demolishing 57 Bldgs For Highway Church Being Completely Demolished Roosevelt Artifacts Headed to Auction Utica Native Annette Funicello Dead $3 Bowl Sells for $2.2 million
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It now seems hard to believe that for most of the latter part of the 19th century, New York City was the cigar making capital of the United States. New York State as a whole had 364 cities and towns with 4,495 cigar factories and 1,875 (41%) of these were operating in mid and lower […]
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