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Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor
Explore the Erie Canal and discover America's most famous and influential man-made waterway. Stretching 524 miles across the full expanse of upstate New York, the Erie, Champlain, Oswego, and Cayuga-Seneca Canals are among our nation
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Existing Railroad Stations in New York State
Devoted to the classic railroad stations still standing in New York State.
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GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - New York
GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable.
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Lower East Side Tenement Museum
New York City.
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Project for the transcription, translation, and publication of all Dutch documents in New York repositories relating to the seventeenth-century colony of New Netherland.
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New York Irish History Roundtable
The New York Irish History Roundtable promotes interest in and research on the 300-year history of people of Irish heritage in New York City. Its purpose is to provide opportunities to exchange information, and for members to learn from each other, about the complex relationship between the Irish and New York City since the colonial period. It sponsors lectures, field trips, walking tours, special projects, graduate and undergraduate scholarships, museum exhibitions, genealogy workshops, newsletters and an annual journal, New York Irish History. The New York Irish History Roundtable is a non-denominational, non-political, registered not-for-profit corporation. Its members include both professional and amateur historians and genealogists. Membership is open to all.
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New York State Canals: Canal Culture: Canal History
A short history of the NYS Canal System. This site is exclusively for information on the current-day canal system has no other historical information, and NO information about canal workers, passengers or boaters.
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New York State Historic Marker Program
The State Historic Marker Program, which was managed by the Education Department's State History office as an active field program from 1926 to 1966, has now become largely an advisory and data base management program. The archives of that program, as well as the records of over 2,800 historic markers across the State, are maintained by the Museum.
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New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut: The Tri-State Region and more in Stereoscopic Views
12,000 photographs of those three states as they were captured in stereoscopic views from the 1850s to the 1910s.
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Pearl Duncan's Profile and Blog on NearSay New York
Author and genealogist, PEARL DUNCAN, blogs about Colonial New York and U.S. ancestors.
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Rediscovering New York History & Culture
Directs users to historical records and resources in New York State from libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives.
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The Great New York Floods 1913
Story of the great flood and cyclone disasters in New York State, edited by Thomas H. Russell.
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From early Native American cultures through WWII. Article by Rickie Lazzerini.
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The Italian American Web Site of New York
This site contains information pertaining to Italian genealogy, organizations, discrimination, travel, literature, college, sports, women and much more.
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