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The New York History Blog
17.09.2025
The Preservation League of NYS's Excellence Awards shines a light on the people who are using historic preservation to create positive change
A new comic novel, The Satyr in Bungalow D, inspired by the Catskills, combines fantasy and fiction with real-life hotels, businesses and hang-outs.
General Jean-Armand de Dieskau has been forgotten by history, just as he was forgotten and abandoned during the French and Indian War.
John Brown Lives! will host their 10th Annual Blues at Timbuctoo at the John Brown Farm State Historic Site on Sunday, September 21st.
On the latest episode of the Crossroads of Rockland County podcast is about the Historic Homes & Landmarks Tour in Tappan on October 4, 2025.
16.09.2025
For the 200th Board for Historic Preservation meeting we're highlighting some of New York's most interesting National Historical Register places.
The 25th annual Fall Festival at Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve in Cheektowaga in Erie County, NY, will be held on Saturday, September 20th.
The Mohawk Valley Latino Association will host a special event celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month and fostering Mohawk Valley cultural exchange.
In 1950 David Daniels was the president of Wheeler Paper Company of Albany when his boat sank in Lake George with his wife and dog.
The Gray Catbird is a common, vocal, and unique bird that happens to be the only fully gray bird in New York State.
14.09.2025
He rushed to take advantage of the greatest deal he ever saw only to find out it was too good to be true. He had failed to read the fine print.
13.09.2025
The latest ADK Talks podcast features David Gibson, conservation leader and author of A Force for Nature: Paul Schaefer’s Adirondack Coalitions.
On August 23, NYS Conservation Officer Osborne responded to a call regarding an injured owl in the town of Hancock in Delaware County.
A world-class programis set for Sept 21-25 at the 2025 World Canals Conference (WCC 2025) in Buffalo.
The staghorn sumac occurs along most highways and county roads, as well as in disturbed areas and abandoned fields transitioning to shrubland.
12.09.2025
On July 25, a subject paid more than $25,000 for violations related to illegal stream excavations of protected waterbodies in the Catskills.
The Northern Forest Canoe Trail will close out its 2025 Adirondack Race Series with the Long Lake Long Boat Regatta, Saturday, September 20th.
DEC’s first campgrounds — Sacandaga and Sharp Bridge — were established in 1920 in the Adirondacks, as was the newest campground.
HALF-WAY BROOK, midway between Forts Edward and William Henry, was the scene of many bloody skirmishes, surprises and ambushes.
Louis Riel was the founder of the Canadian province Manitoba, and a leader in the independence movement for Saskatchewan.
11.09.2025
The Mountain Top Historical Society of Greene County will present the 13th Annual Postcard Show with John Duda on September 20th.
Life along the canal became the subject of folklore, stories of the cooks, the hogees who led the mules and of course the canallers themselves.
Zerah Colburn (1832–1870) was an engineer, author and prominent technical journalist who specialized in steam locomotive and railway design.
Seneca Village was a settlement of predominantly African American property owners in Manhattan, existing from 1825 to 1857.
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers recently fought several wildfires and rescued several hikers and a cliff jumper.
10.09.2025
A Paddle for Wilderness is taking place on Saturday September 13th at Forked Lake in the Central Adirondacks in Long Lake at 10 am.
In 1775, rumors of a catalyzing crisis had reached Schenectady. By then, there had long been disputes between Britain and the American Colonies.
Substantial infrastructure upgrades have been made at Mills-Norrie State Park in Dutchess County, NY.
In 1778, George Washington, Philip Schuyler and others began planning invasions against Iroquoia, homeland of the Haudenosaunee.
In 1800 Forlorn Hope was published, edited by an incarcerated person. Since then, over 700 prison newspapers have been published in the US.
09.09.2025
Repair Cafes are free community gatherings where skilled volunteer "Repair Coaches" help neighbors fix broken household items.
At the close of the last Ice Age glacial ice formed a dam across the valley of the East Branch Ausable River creating its phenomenal landscape.
The latest expansion of Minnewaska State Park adds a 291-acre section of the northern Shawangunk Mountains in the Town of Rochester, NY.
Lower Adirondack Regional Center for History will host a free program on John Hancock on Friday, Sept 12 at Hancock House in Ticonderoga, NY.
James Fenimore Cooper’s visit to Lake George in August, 1824 helped inspire his novel Last of the Mohicans.
08.09.2025
King William’s War: The First Contest for North America, 1689–1697 is the first book-length treatment of a war crucial to the future of North America.
One million dollars in grant funding is available through the third round of New York State’s Community Forest Conservation Grant Program.
Natural forces and human hands have shaped Saratoga for centuries. The Hudson River here once pulsed with commerce and conflict.
Russell Bellico discusses his research primary document research of the British surrender of Fort William Henry and carnage of its aftermath.
The archival legacy of Alexander Jackson Davis (1803-1892) constitutes the largest surviving American architectural archive of the pre-Civil War era.