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Edwin Paddock Mansion Becomes Jefferson County Historical Society The Paddock Mansion on Washington Street in Watertown, N. Y., for nearly a century now home to...

The Thousand Island Yacht Club On Welcome Island – Est. 1896 The Thousand Island Yacht Club’s home on Welcome Island began in 1895, when W....

Is The Jefferson County Fair The Longest Consecutively Running Fair At 206 in 2023? The Jefferson County Fair has the distinction of being the longest...

F3 Boonville Tornado on May 2, 1983 Caused $15 Million In Damage The Boonville Tornado of May 2, 1983 was part of an outbreak in...

George Cook And The Soldiers’ And Sailors’ Monument, Dedicated In 1891 The story behind George Cook and his wife, Adeline Granger Cook, gifting the city of...

The Carson Mansion, Most Photographed Victorian Mansion In The USA? The story of Eureka, California’s Carson Mansion begins with a man’s quest for gold in...

Westminster Park – Est. 1877 On “Wells Island” In 1877, an association was formed to purchase land on the eastern end of Wellesley Island in...

Life In The Sand Flats Revolved Around Gardening For Many Italian-American Immigrants In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Sand Flats, an area consisting...

Twin Island – Two Little Islands With Two Big Stars Not too far from Castle Francis and the Thousand Island Park is Twin Island, an...

Paddock Arcade, First Glass-Covered Street In The United States Long before it was home to the Paddock Arcade, the lot on which the first “glass-covered...