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In 1849 the Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society reported that “Half-way brook… so named a...

Alice Mabel Allen (1886-1976) grew up in the village of Adams in Jefferson County. In 1908, while attending Syracuse...

For nearly 20 years the Almanack has only been supported by readers like you. Now is the time...

For a story that is part of a series marking 175 years of eyewitness journalism from The New York...

Members of the Corvidae family (corvids) like crows and ravens are intelligent birds with a vocal repertoire that...

Recently, while driving west on Route 29 just beyond the Saratoga Springs city limits, I passed Petrified Gardens...

We Want More History!, a coordinated national event featuring place-based history programming which has been being erased by...

Early ferry travel across New York’s rivers and large lakes relied on rowboats, scows, barges, or sail ferries,...

On October 24th, 1945, newspapers announced that the Brooklyn Dodgers had signed Jackie Robinson to their Montreal farm...

The New York and New Jersey metropolitan area hosts several leading higher education institutions, ranging from elite Ivy...