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The American Revolution in what is now Clinton County, NY, was defined by its strategic position on Lake...

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Whitehall‘s Patrick J. Harvey was lucky when it came to fishing and foraging. In late February 1928, spring-like...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has launched the I BIRD NY Library Lending Program....

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

A new book, The Crown’s Silence, The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas...

Poet Emma Lazarus was active from the mid-1860s until her death in 1887. She descended from a well-established...

Cortland County, NY native John McGraw left a deep imprint on professional baseball, first in Baltimore and later...

The following short news items about Hudson River steamboats were originally published in newspapers in 1809 and 1810.The...

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