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Broadway Star May Irwin And Her Summer Home – 1000 Islands
Broadway Star May Irwin Summer Home Built Upon Club Island Near Clayton Born in 1862 in Whitby, Canada, less than 30 miles from downtown Toronto,...

1897 Crouch-Daly Double Murder Outside Sackets Harbor
The 1897 Crouch-Daly Double Murder Outside Sackets Harbor Remains One Of The Area’s Most Disturbing And Mysterious Tragedies In the early morning hours, just past...

1998 Ice Storm
1998 Ice Storm Paralyzes North American With 4 Million Without Power, 44 Deaths, and Billions of Dollars In Damage The 1998 Ice Storm was influenced...

1800s Pinnacle Hill – Precursor to Thompson Park
Pinnacle Hill Was A Nearly Inaccessible Paradise Back In The 1800s, With Nearby Park Land Planned For A Sanitarium Before the construction of City Park,...

The Watertown Court Street Red Light District – (1890 – 1920)
“All Cities Had Them” – Court Street Was Watertown’s Red Light District In The late 1800s, Early 1900s Mr. Watertown, Alex T. Duffy, once brought...

Vallat House – 661 Factory Street
The Vallat House On Factory Street: A Hotel At Factory Square With all the manufacturing on Factory Street, besides bars and restaurants, workers needed a...

Tibbetts Point Lighthouse – 1000 Islands
Capt. John Tibbetts Deeds Land To U.S. Government To Build Tibbetts Point Lighthouse in 1827 Initially constructed in 1827, the Tibbetts Point Lighthouse has a...

Olga Knitting Mills – 165 Fairbanks St.
Shaughnessy Knitting Mill Weaves A Spin-Off: Olga Knitting Mills Located In Factory Square Olga Knitting Mills began in the early 1920s after the success of...

Idlewild – 1000 Islands
Idlewild Grows From Small Cottage To 21 Room Mansion With Various High-Profile Owners Over The Years The first mention of Idlewild in the local press...

Northern New York Pioneer Christmas – 1804
A Pioneer Christmas In 1804: Family Relocating To Northern New York Kept Journal Documenting Journey The following story of a Pioneer Christmas was printed initially...