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The 1906-built Forward launch was one of the first gasoline-powered vessels on Lake George. The 45-foot-long watercraft was...

Ulysses S. Grant’s ancestors first came to America in 1630 when Englishman Mathew Grant landing in Dorchester, Massachusetts....

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

In September 1887, in broad daylight, a robbery took place at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (the...

On a recent walk through a woodland strewn with underfoot color, my rapt gaze floated, like a bumblebee...

Albany’s proximity to the Hudson River made it an ideal trading center, beginning with Native American-Dutch fur trading...

Just after sunset on a toasty evening in May 1903, a two-year-old trotting horse named Princewell, startled by...

July 4, 1827 was a special day in New York and certainly one for celebratory events around the...

Many New Yorkers before the Civil War contributed to the abolition of slavery, and the dangerous work of...

Almost 20 years ago when New York Almanack was founded I signed up for Amazon.com’s affiliate program in...