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Ambrose Doge Builds 30-Bedroom Eveleigh House In 1844 Sackets Harbor Constructed and opened in 1844

The Fascinating History of the Cup and Saucer House In Cape Vincent, Built For Napoleon

The Chimes Cafe Was Located On Franklin Street For Just Shy of 50 Years In

The Summer Home With Many Names, Amongst Them, Cinavo and Manatoana, On Wellesley Island Deva

Watertown Urban Renewal Crawls To The Finish Line As the Watertown Urban Renewal project turned

Arthur T. Hagen, of Rochester and a Successful Manufacturer of Laundry Equipment, Builds Palatial Summer

The State Armory Takes Center Stage of Watertown Urban Renewal Delays The Watertown Urban Renewal

Former Ogdensburg Native and New York Air Brake President Royal C. Vilas Builds Mansion At

The Cart Put Before The Horse? Watertown Urban Renewal Scope, Costs, Increase When the Watertown

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John “Jack” Walter Wood III Designed and Built Childhood Friend Sherman Pratt a Modern, Ferro-Concrete

The Watertown Urban Renewal Winds of Change Began Blowing in 1958 With President Eisenhower’s Aggressive

Broadway Star May Irwin Summer Home Built Upon Club Island Near Clayton Born in 1862

The 1897 Crouch-Daly Double Murder Outside Sackets Harbor Remains One Of The Area’s Most Disturbing

1998 Ice Storm Paralyzes North American With 4 Million Without Power, 44 Deaths, and Billions

Pinnacle Hill Was A Nearly Inaccessible Paradise Back In The 1800s, With Nearby Park Land

“All Cities Had Them” – Court Street Was Watertown’s Red Light District In The late

The Vallat House On Factory Street: A Hotel At Factory Square With all the manufacturing

Capt. John Tibbetts Deeds Land To U.S. Government To Build Tibbetts Point Lighthouse in 1827

Shaughnessy Knitting Mill Weaves A Spin-Off: Olga Knitting Mills Located In Factory Square Olga Knitting

Idlewild Grows From Small Cottage To 21 Room Mansion With Various High-Profile Owners Over The

A Pioneer Christmas In 1804: Family Relocating To Northern New York Kept Journal Documenting Journey

Putting the “Con” In Zavikon Island Smallest International Bridge Story There’s a saying that may

Downtown Vs. Uptown: The 1986 Christmas Shopping Season Was The First For Salmon Run Mall

The R. W. & O. R. R. (Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Rail Road) 1890 Christmas

A look Back At Christmas In Watertown, NY, In 1879 The following piece regarding Christmas

The Hubbard House, A Clayton Landmark On James Street The Hubbard House on James Street

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas At Constable Hall: Cherished Poem Celebrates 200th Year Completed in

The 1903 World Series of Football at Madison Square Garden Featured Watertown Red & Black

Edgewood Club of Cleveland, Ohio, Build the $12,000 Club House “Edgewood Park Hotel” Near Alexandria

The March 1947 Snowstorm: North Country Paralyzed By Three Consecutive Weekend Snow Storms The March

George Boldt Cottage: Building Upon Sen. Eliza Hart’s Cottage before Building Boldt Castle Most “summer

Big Box Retail Pioneer Robert Hall Clothing Store Opens In Watertown, NY, In 1960 Long

Alice B. Hoyt, Born In 1808, Remembers The VERY Early Days Of Public Square The

George D. Colesante Opens “Colesante’s,” A Factory Street Mainstay After Prohibition Ends In 1933 If

Amasa Corbin, Jr., of Gouverneur Organizes Thousand Islands Develop Co. and Builds Murray Hill Hotel

William Benson Returns Home From WWI After Fighting Abroad At The Age Of 56 William

Inventor Frank Ritter of Rochester Purchases Kepler’s Point, Builds Lindenhof In 1889 One of the

Col. George Flower purchases Stone House at 31 Washington Street In 1867 One of the

From Harboring Slaves Fleeing To Canada To Ghost Hunting With Meat Loaf: Isle Of Pines

Henry Evans Murdered Three In What Is Still Known As Slaughter Hill, Publicly Executed In

The Oswego Ghost, George Fikes, A British Soldier From The Revolutionary War Becomes A News

Thousand Island Park Hotel Fire: A Handsome Fire-Trap per the Rochester Herald After Blaze Destroys

The Warrens of “The Conjuring” & “Amityville Horror” Fame Visit 1 Lincoln Street Ghost at

Two Articles Regarding a Haunted House In Felts Mills Investigated By The Watertown Daily Times

Alice Greenfield Murder Near Pulaski In 1875 Took Three Trials And The Victim Purportedly Speaking

Frederick Frazer Purchases Land On Cherry Island, Builds Nelfred Lodge, Later Known As Win-Lee, In

Watertown Daily Times Investigates Haunted House On Cedar Street In 1877 Cedar Street, in “The

Crevolin Family Builds, Then Rebuilds, Beechwood  In Cape Vincent After Fire Destroyed Original Originally built

Eva Coo and the 1934 Murder at the Haunted House On Crumhorn Mountain The murder

The “Huntingtonville Mystery”: Investigating A Graveyard Ghost at Calvary Cemetery In 1880 The tale of

Maud Island Purchased From Dr. Rev. F. B. A. Lewis By R. A. Livingston, Renamed

Enterprising Knapp Brothers Build Stone Mansion “Kilborne House” In Brownville Believed to have been built

Recollections of an Old Jefferson County Boy, S. A. Webb, May 26, 1888.    The

Elks Carnival Held First Week Of July 1914 Draws Thousands To Public Square Long before

Joel Sherwood Builds 18-Room Mansion On Iroquois Island In 1898 The Joel Sherwood summer home

The Central Park Hotel Becomes St. Lawrence Hotel, Then Hotel Lotus Hotel Lotus originally opened

James D. Le Ray de Chaumont Builds Historic Cape Vincent Stone House In 1815 Constructed

Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels At The Watertown Armory & Ronnie James Dio And

Theresa Native, Author, Inventor Byron A. Brooks Builds Brooklyn Terrace In Thousand Island Park Brooklyn

The Goodyear Blimp Made Stops in 1975 & 1982, Drawing Approximately 36,000 In the late

Cape Vincent’s Hotel Carleton, Nationally Known Hotel Resort In Thousand Islands Completed in 1901, Hotel

401 Mill Street, Home To J. B. Wise Co., Wilbur’s, California Brewery and Watertown Roller

The Disappearance Of Sean Evans On May 17 1984 From 910 Water Street The disappearance

Boldt’s Wellesley Island Properties Included The Birches And Swiss Chalet According to The New York

The Twelve-Year Battle To Build A New Watertown High School On Washington Street Efforts began

Boonville Train Crash One Of Worst In History Of Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Division Of NYCRR.

James T. Easton Of Brooklyn Erects Stuyvesant Lodge On Cherry Island Stuyvesant Lodge is another

Goulding, Bagley & Sewall Became Bagley & Sewall, Later Purchased By Black Clawson The origins

Completed In 1884, The Marsden House, Later The Thousand Islands Hotel, Became a Landmark In

Kite Day and Country Jamboree Drew Thousands To Thompson Park In The 70s & 80s

Cleveland Mayor William G. Rose Builds Mansion On Rose Island – Later Summer Home for

Edwin Paddock Mansion Becomes Jefferson County Historical Society The Paddock Mansion on Washington Street in

The Thousand Island Yacht Club On Welcome Island – Est. 1896 The Thousand Island Yacht

Is The Jefferson County Fair The Longest Consecutively Running Fair At 206 in 2023? The

F3 Boonville Tornado on May 2, 1983 Caused $15 Million In Damage The Boonville Tornado

George Cook And The Soldiers’ And Sailors’ Monument, Dedicated In 1891 The story behind George

The Carson Mansion, Most Photographed Victorian Mansion In The USA? The story of Eureka, California’s

Westminster Park – Est. 1877 On “Wells Island” In 1877, an association was formed to

Life In The Sand Flats Revolved Around Gardening For Many Italian-American Immigrants In the late

Twin Island – Two Little Islands With Two Big Stars Not too far from Castle

Paddock Arcade, First Glass-Covered Street In The United States Long before it was home to

Castle Francis, The 1000 Islands Summer Home With A Turret Castle Francis was another summer

After Court Battle, 1000 Islands Music Festival Featuring Blue Öyster Cult Falls Far Short Of

Wau Winet Island – Then And Now One of the earliest information on the many

The City’s Parks and Recreation Playground Mardi Gras Parades Of Yesteryear Trying to find history

Michael Chauncey of New York City Erects A Thousand Islands Showcase Property On Cuba Island

Kinney Drugs Opens Its 12th Location In 1959 At Seaway Plaza The birth of Kinney

H. H. Babcock Mansion Gets A Greek Revival Makeover By Anson R. Flower And Later

Rosette Island – Longue Vue Island Added To U.S. National Register  Of Historic Places In

J. B. Taylor Summer Home Turned Into Pine Tree Point Club By Thomson Family The

Fairyland Island, Home To The Hayden Family Summer Homes Fairyland is the curious name given,

Adventure Town 1000 Islands Brought The Wild West To Edgewood Resort Looking to draw tourists

Explosion At 423 Dimmick Street Leaves 8 Children Dead In Watertown Tragedy, July 12, 1922

The History Of The Oscar Paddock Carriage House – The Finest Of Its Time The

New York City Supreme Court Judge Donahue Summer Home On Steamboat Island One of the

The Oscar Paddock Mansion On Washington St. Along With The Other Paddock Mansions Were Sights

The Palatial Orville Brainard Mansion Became Elks Club In 1913 One of the earlier palatial

F. W. Woolworth’s Vision Of The Woolworth Building on Public Square Was Much Different Although