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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 Becomes 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

Imperial Isle in the 1000 Islands Long before Gilbert T. Rafferty built his castle-like summer

Frank Augsbury, Who Renovated Madison Barracks, Brings Northern New York WaterFun Village The first attempt

Westcott Family Property Since 1803 Becomes Part Of Westcott Beach State Park Westcott Beach had

From Kirby House, to Earll Hotel, Hotel Hardiman and Roosevelt Hotel, the Old Court Street

High Upon Bartlett Point Once Sat Manatauk Hotel Overlooking Clayton and The St. Lawrence River

Last of The Jean’s Beans Still Going Strong At Same Location Despite Difficulties Launching In

Jefferson County Almshouse, Once An Orphanage, County Home For The Aged And Deathbed Of Famed

The Adriel Ely Store Has A Long and Notable History Of Connections To Who’s Who

Neh-Mahbin, Summer Home (Or Island?) To James H. Oliphant And Family One of the more

The Fairgrounds Pool, Later Renamed Steve D. Alteri Pool, And A Strange Case Of Déjà

Judge Sawyer Mansion at 141 Ten Eyck Street One of the large, old homes in

Emma Flower Taylor Gifts The city A Bide-A-Wee Hospital Prior to the creation of the

Singer Castle Built For Frederick G. Bourne, President Of  Singer Manufacturing Company The last of

The Strand Opens in 1914 as a Modern Theater on Franklin Street Watertown, NY would

Hillcrest Farm on Ives Street Has An Impressive History Of Ownership Hillcrest Farm on Ives

Hardiman-Woolworth Co., One of the Largest Furnishing Houses in New York State The Hardiman-Woolworth store

The Harris House, One of Watertown’s Earliest Taverns and Hotels on Public Square Built in

October 30, 1938 War of the Worlds Old Time Radio Broadcast Causes Mass Hysteria Before

George Boldt’s Wellesley House on Wellesley Island George Boldt‘s Wellesley House is often overshadowed by

After 37 Years, Partridge Berry Inn Rekindles Anew By The Fireside The Partridge Berry Inn

Carthage, Watertown & Sackets Harbor Rail Road Depot Built in 1871, Becomes Marcy-Buck Building Before

The Carlisle At 273 Paddock Street – Named After 3rd Owner, Floyd L. Carlisle The

Old Court Street City Hall – Erected In Controversy, Demolished In Controversy It’s pretty evident

Woolworth Relocating To 146 Arsenal Street – The Urban Renewal’s “Success” Story When the city

James F. Starbuck, Prominent Attorney and Later State Senator Builds Starbuck Mansion At 253 Clinton

The Hungerford Mansion Will Be 200 Years Old In 2025 Orville Hungerford would have the

George C. Boldt Builds Mansion On Belle Island, Sells It To Former Carnegie Vice President

The Crystal Restaurant On Public Square, Since 1925 In the opening of his review of

Watertown Chamber of Commerce Lures Shaughnessy Knitting Mill To City in 1909 According to a

Many Prominent Owners Of The Old O’Brien House At 216 Keyes Ave Over The Years

Wall Street Broker Charles I. Hudson Builds “The Ledges” at Anthony Point In 1885 In

Benny’s Steak House Had Three Different Locations Before Closing In 2006 Benny’s Steak House was

Micah Sterling Builds Sterling Mansion, Later Becomes Home To Holy Family School Sterling Mansion would

Anson R. And Roswell P. Flower Erect A New Trinity Church On Sherman Street With

Louis Marx Purchases Melrose Lodge, Expands Upon It And Renames “Casa Blanca” Casa Blanca (also

Harriett Pullman Carolan Builds Carolands Chateau In San Francisco Bay Area Taking nearly two years

Giovanni’s: A Terrific Trattoria on LeRay Street Giovanni’s would first open in the late 1960s

Hamilton Street School Built In 1899 To Relieve Overcrowding At Lamon Street School In April

Stony Crest Island, aka Warner Island and Jewel Island The first mentioning of Warner Island,

Shadow Lawn, the “White House by the Sea” John A. McCall, President of the New

Emma Flower Taylor Residence 224 S Massey St Built After Divorce From J. B. Taylor

Johnston and Hudson Residence Erected by William Johnston in 1895 at 246 S Massey St,

The Dutch Elm Disease Forever Changed the Landscape of Washington Street Ice Storms and a microburst.

Neil Hunt, Neighbor of Henry Heath, Purchases St. Elmo Island in 1884 St. Elmo Island

Mrs. George Pullman Mansion in Washington, D.C., Becomes Russian Embassy then Russian Ambassador Residence The

A&W Drive-In, 728 Bradley Street “Come As You Are – Eat In Your Car!” Who

The Florentine D. Roth Mansion Becomes Home to Sisters of St. Joseph’s Music Conservatory The

Streeter Block Become J B Wise Block, Home to the Victoria Theater The Streeter Block

Nobby Island: Henry Heath’s Vision of Utopia in the 1000 Islands The “recorded” history of

The Lincoln Restaurant and Aldimar Restaurant Nearly 30 years on Public Square in the Lincoln

The Emma Flower Taylor Stable Murders – Double Murder By Shooting Still Unsolved The Taylor

Sport Island and its short-bridged neighbor, Little Lehigh The history of Sport Island and Little

Madison Barracks Erected after Sackets Harbor Becomes an Important Military Installation During the War of

A Look at the History of the Black River Valley Club (BRVC) Building The Black

Fairlawn, the Pullman Summer Residence on Ocean Ave, Elberon, N.J. Built in 1874 at Elberon,

Union and Jefferson Mills Were Two of the Old Mill Street Mills from the 1800s

A Look Back at the History of Manhattan Island in the 1000 Islands The first

The Pullman Mansion on South Prairie Ave, Chicago, Illinois Construction on the Pullman Mansion in

Starbuck Arena Saw The Birth of “Sugar” Ray Robinson On January 4, 1939 On January

Neuschwanstein Castle, Construction Started in 1869, But Never Completed For King Ludwig II Of Bavaria

Musselman’s Confectionary at the Y.M.C.A. Bldg 1922 – 1944 In December of 1923, J. Joseph

The Martello Towers of Kingston, Ontario If ever taking a road-trip to Kingston, Ontario (or

Completed in 1880, Theological Hall is the Third Oldest Building on Queen’s University Campus Like

The E. W. Dewey Cottage on Friendly Island, 1887 – 1947 One of the more

The Otis House Fire Was The Most Destructive In Watertown Since 1849 The Otis House

1991 Ice Storm Marked The Beginning Of A Memorable Decade In Northern New York From

George Pullman Spurs Thousand Islands Growth With Guest President Grant’s Visit In 1872, Later Builds

The Wing Wagon: a Taste of Buffalo on Public Square The Wing Wagon would make

Charles M. Schwab Mansion, “Riverside,” Upper West Side of Manhattan Taking four years to complete,

Keewaydin, “Northwest Wind,” Constructed In 1893 For J. W. Jackson Built in 1893 on the

A Look at the Downtown Watertown Christmas Decorations Over the Years It’s beginning to look

H. H. Babcock Co., Makers of Fine Carriages And Automobiles In Watertown, N.Y. The H.

Lower State Street Was Once Prime Real Estate If one weren’t given the addresses of

Dexter Sulphite Mill Explosion of January 18, 1903 Built in 1837, the Dexter Sulphite Mill

Hopewell Hall On Wellesley Island, Completed In 1891 William C. Browning’s Hopewell Hall would begin

The Thompson Park Zoo: A Look Back At The Turning Point Toward Natural Habitation In

The Little Sterling Street School House Becomes Grace Church The history of Grace Church that

Taggart Paper Mill Had Served Many Purposes Over The Years, Destroyed By Fire In 1972

House of the Good Samaritan, often referred to as City Hospital in its early years,

The Brownville Hotel: 1820 – 1995, 175 Years a Landmark The first Brownville Hotel was

Wyckoff Villa, A Deteriorating Mansion Built On The Island Of A Strategic Revolutionary War British

Gorri’s Market: First a Grocery Store, Then Resurrected as a Meat Market If Gorri’s Market

Frigate New Orleans And Its Shiphouse At Sackets Harbor, Built For The War Of 1812

Trinity Church On Court Street And Watertown’s Dark Past With Its First Burial Ground The

It’s Not Called Watertown For Nothing: The Great Flood Of 1869 The great flood of

Chaumont Landmark For Many Years, O. S. Wilcox Residence Became National Hotel Then Carlier Hotel