The Hulett Hotel Fire on Lake George
The rise of local and specialist history publishers such as Arcadia and History Press has been a boon to local history and an opportunity part-time writers and historians to have their work published...
View ArticleNew Exhibit on the Great Fire of Troy
On May 10, 1862, as the nation was consumed by the ravages of the Civil War, Troy NY faced a devastating fire. As a train crossed the Hudson River on the Troy-Green Island Bridge, a spark from the...
View ArticlePrescribed Fire Program at Saratoga National Historical Park
With favorable weather conditions in place, certified wildland firefighters at Saratoga National Historical Park, will undertake prescribed burning of approximately 40 acres of park land during the...
View ArticleConey Island Souvenirs Throughout The Years
In May 1654, the early settlers of Gravesend, Brooklyn purchased what is now known as Coney Island from the local Native Americans. Back then it was just a beach, but by the 1840s it had morphed into...
View ArticleRehabilitated Mount Beacon Fire Tower Re-Opens
What follows is a guest essay by William Keating about the opening of the rehabilitated Mount Beacon Fire Tower in June. The colonials used the 1,400 foot north peak of Mount Beacon along the Hudson...
View ArticleComments Sought On Historic Adirondack Fire Towers
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has released the draft unit management plans (UMPs) for the Hurricane Mountain Fire Tower Historic Area and the Saint Regis Mountain...
View ArticleFire At Kanisteo Historical Society, Steuben County
On Tuesday night, January 7, 2014 about 10:30 pm a fire broke out in the Kanisteo Historical Society in Canisteo, Steuben County, on main street. The building is only feet from the Canisteo Volunteer...
View ArticleAdirondack Fire Tower Management Public Hearing Set
The Proposed Final Drafts of the Hurricane Mountain and St. Regis Mountain Fire Tower Historic Area Unit Management Plans (UMPs) were presented by New York State Department of Environmental...
View ArticleThe Sinking of The S.S. Normandie At NYC’s Pier 88
On February 9, 1942 crowds gathered at New York City’s pier 88 to witness a spectacle. The largest ocean liner in the world was on fire. Fire fighting efforts successfully contained the fire after five...
View ArticleManufacturing Subject of ‘Made in Newburgh’ Lecture
On November 9, 2014, the Friends of the State Historic Sites of the Hudson Highlands will host a talk on Newburgh’s manufacturing history at Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site. Industrial...
View ArticleHudson Valley Docs From 1911 Fire Being Digitized
AT&T has given a $20,000 contribution to support the conservation and digitization of documents burned in the 1911 New York Capitol Fire. The documents are expected to be conserved and digitized...
View ArticleSullivan County’s First African American Firefighter
During the night of April 26, 1874, fire broke out in the livery stables of LeGrand Morris’ Exchange Hotel in Monticello, NY. Village residents were roused from their beds to form a bucket brigade to...
View ArticleFirefight: The Battle to Integrate the NYFD
Ginger Adams Otis’ new book Firefight: The Century-Long Battle to Integrate New York’s Bravest (2015 Palgrave MacMillan) offers a fresh look at New York City’s firefighters’ critical Civil Rights...
View ArticleA Short History of Watervliet Water Works
Fire! Fire! The words still strike fear into people, but in the 19th Century, the alarm of a fire in a community sometimes brought disaster. Unfortunately, large fires were very commonplace. Fires in...
View ArticleNew England’s Darkest Day
When Abraham Hasbrouck (1707-1791) awoke on the morning of May 19, 1780, he looked at the sun, and probably saw a reddish glow around it. He recorded in his diary that by eight in the morning, “the sun...
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New England’s Darkest Day
When Abraham Hasbrouck (1707-1791) awoke on the morning of May 19, 1780, he looked at the sun, and probably saw a reddish glow around it.He recorded in his diary that by eight in the morning, “the sun...
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A Short History of Club Camp on Big Moose Lake
The Club Camp is often mentioned as the first permanent structure built on Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks. The word permanent is rather ironic because this hunting and fishing establishment had a...
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Sagamore Hill Fire Findings Released By Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) has released findings and a follow-up corrective action plan for the December 2018 visitor center fire at Sagamore Hill National Historic Site in Oyster Bay, NY. The...
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Fire Damages Palisades Park Commission Building, Archives
A substantial fire has closed the 1920s Palisades Interstate Park New Jersey Park Headquarters building in Alpine, N.J., across the Hudson River from Yonkers. No one was hurt in the blaze, but one Park...
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William Fox Helped Create Modern NYS Forest Rangers
William F. Fox was born in 1840 in Ballston Spa, Saratoga County, and graduated from Union College in Schenectady in 1860. He served in the Civil War as Captain, Major and then Lieutenant Colonel in...
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