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

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

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

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

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 Constructed 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

Bonniecastle, Named After Fictional Character and 1874 Novel “Arthur Bonnicastle” The history of Bonniecastle, the

O’Toole’s Roadhouse Restaurant at Salmon Run Mall In 1988, O’Toole’s Roadhouse Restaurant joined the Ground

The Forge House In Old Forge, NY, Constructed In 1871 And Destroyed By Fire In

District No 10 School House – Intersection Of Dry Hill-Farm School Rd And Minkler Rd.

Williams’ Dry Feed, Fassett’s Groceries and White’s Quality Meats In Adams Center This building, once

Woolworth Lunch Counter, Woolworth Bldg., Public Square Somewhere in history, somebody realized that shopping makes

A Look Back As Harold T. Wiley School Turns The Big 5-0. Harold T. Wiley

Abraham Abraham Summer Home On Cherry Island Had Many Connections, Part Of Millionaires Row (1899

The 1940s and 50s Were Record-Breaking For Christmas Shopping In Watertown, NY Up until the

Stone Street Fire Station: Engine House No. 3 and Then No. 1 In hindsight, history

Tobacco Giant Charles G. Emery Constructs Emery Castle On Calumet Island In 1882, Tobacco giant

Morgia’s Restaurant In Watertown, NY, Corner of Cedar at W. Prospect Streets. “Watertown’s first singles

Factory Street Fire Station No. 2, 1873 – 1988 Some interesting discrepancies arose while researching

The Thompson Park Wading Pool Opened In 1901 Long before the original swimming pool was

Boldt Castle: The Heart of the 1,000 Islands The crown jewel of the 1000 Islands

The Watertown Bowl And Its Many Clubs Over The Years (1959 – 1996) In late

Keep, Flower Families Help To Build Henry Keep Home For The Aged The Henry Keep

Montague, New York’s Near Record Of 77 Inches Of Snow In 24 Hours, January Of

The New York Central Freight House Was A Game-Changer For Watertown, N.Y.  In late 1905,

The Flower Memorial Library: A Gift From Emma Flower Taylor To The City Of Watertown,

Roswell P. Flower Helps To Build Flower Hospital For The Poor Of New York City

Brookside Cemetery, One Of New York’s Most Compelling Cemeteries Brookside Cemetery, a short distance to

Emma Flower Taylor Mansion – A Wedding Gift From Father To Daughter The story of

The 1986 Gale Street Murders Haunted Community For One Long Week Before Charles Fedora Was

Sears Finally Gets A Home On Arsenal Street In 1948 Until its closing at Salmon

White House Inn – Once Stood Where State Office Building Is Located Though only 65

Howard Johnson On Arsenal Street (1962 – 1989) Howard Johnson’s popularity in its 96-year existence

New York Air Brake WW1 Efforts Leads To Construction Of Lansingdorp World War 1 had

New York Central Coal Trestle In The Pine Street Rail Road Yard, Built In 1919

The Watertown Engine Terminal And Roundhouse At Pine Street Rail Yard Construction on the new

The 1901 Pan-American Exposition’s Electric Tower In Buffalo Inspired The General Electric Building In That

Long-Running Music Box Restaurant Moves To New Cedar Square, Eventually Becomes Home To Golden Lion

Anthony Marra’s Grocery Store, 300 South Meadow Street at Cross Street Marra’s grocery store, started

The Howard Electric Tower at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition In Buffalo, NY Roughly four years

The Electric Tower at the original Luna Park, Coney Island, New York Luna Park at

Mary Farmer’s Diabolical Murder of Sarah Brennan Called “One Of The Most Atrocious In The

Solving, and Building, A Mystery: Barney’s Place – Factory Street Anywhere there’s hard work to

E. H. Thompson Grocers Once The Oldest Grocery Store In Watertown Located in Washington Hall

The April 18 1962 UFO Incident At Oneida, NY, 10 Other States Below is a

Longstanding Ellingsworth’s Market becomes High Street Market in 1946 In 1946, Charles C. and Dora

The Sugar Bowl: A Long-Standing Fixture on Public Square… And Canton, N.Y.? The first mention

Blizzard Of 1977 Hit Parts Of Western And Northern New York As Well As Southern

Blizzard Of 1977 Hit Parts Of Western And Northern New York As Well As Southern

South Junior High School, the First School Built On the Washington Street Campus, Eventually Became

North Junior High School: A Result Of The 1924 Columbia University Study, Eventually Becomes North

The Watertown Junction Rail Road YMCA, Established In 1902 The Watertown Junction dates back to

The Columbian Hotel at Thousand Island Park In June of 1892, the Columbian Hotel in

The Crossmon House Of Alexandria Bay: Sometimes Bigger Is Better First built as a fisherman’s

The Pullman House Off The Coast Of Clayton, N.Y. Situated just off Grenell Island on

The Thousand Island House in Alexandria Bay One of the many grand hotels built during

1106 Coffeen Street – Homestead For The Fisk And Later Barker Family Halfway up the

The Harlow E Bundy House In Binghamton, New York Built in 1893, the Harlow E

Watertown Neighborhood Grocery Stores: Brown and Fosters c.1900 Located In The Taggart Block The Taggart

Watertown Neighborhood Grocery Stores – Evans Groceries Two Watertown neighborhood grocery stores on Franklin Street

The LeRay Mansion, Located On Fort Drum, A Place Rich In North Country History… And

Blizzard Of 1977 Hit Parts Of Western And Northern New York As Well As Southern

The Second Time Around, There Was Arsenal Street High School… The predecessor to the school

Actually, The 2nd 3rd Arsenal Street School To Occupy The Same Location Completed in 1916, the

Old Car Barn At 780 W Main Street Has Been Home To Many Things Over

T. H. Merritt Motorcycle Garage, Vassar Building, State Street Watertown, NY Located at the Vassar

The Cesaro Badolato Murder On Factory Street, Watertown, N.Y. 1904 One of the early 20th-century

The Academy Street Schools: Same Old Story As City’s Other Public Schools The original Academy

Two Different Boon Street Schools, With Lots Of Additions Over The Years The first Boon

Watertown Consumers’ Brewing Company Becomes Northern Brewing Company (1892 – 1943) The Northern Brewing Company,

The Watertown Neighborhood Grocery Stores: Elk Horn Market Elk Horn Markets was a small chain

Watertown’s North Side Growth Spurs The Construction Of A New Pearl Street School In 1888

Immaculate Heart Academy (IHA) On West Main Street, Watertown, N.Y. By its opening in 1884,

The Mead Street Schools: Desperate Needed To No Longer Needed At All. The first Mead

The Lansing Street School: Eventual First Home To Jefferson Community College Constructed in 1904, the

Three Different Schoolhouses Bore The Name Cooper Street School.  Oops, Better Make That Four. It’s

Originally Built As The Winslow Block, The Taggart Block Was Lost In A Fire Built

Saved By The Bell: The Old Mullin Street School The original Mullin Street School was