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Note: Useful resources for locating information about regional artists include: Getty Union List of Artist Names, Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog, Library of Congress Authorities, Getty Research Library Catalog, Smithsonian Archives of American Art Oral History Interviews and the Dictionary of Art Historians: a Biographical Dictionary of Historians, Museum Directors and Scholars of Art.
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- By Jennifer S. Vey, Brookings Institution, May 2007. "This analysis revealed that New York has seven economically struggling cities: Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, Rochester, Schenectady, Syracuse and Utica." The full report (84 pages) is available online in pdf format.
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- by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica: Journalism in the Public Interest, July 22, 2008. "In New Mexico, oil and gas drilling that uses waste pits comparable to those planned for New York has already caused toxic chemicals to leach into the water table at some 800 sites. Colorado has reported more than 300 spills affecting its ground water."
- by Ilya Marritz, WNYC, July 22, 2008. "The culprit is a practice called hydraulic fracturing. It's never been done much in New York. But it's the only way to get gas out of the Marcellus Shale. Basically the driller blasts the bottom of the well shaft with water, sand, and chemicals, under very high pressure in order to free up the gas. Hydrofracking demands a huge amount of water of water – up to six million gallons per well."
- "Joint effort between the New York Flora Association, the New York Natural Heritage Program, the New York State Museum, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and other partner herbaria with the goal to provide users with a comprehensive searchable database of the vascular and non-vascular plants of New York State." Lists plants by county.
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- By Gloria Wright, Syracuse Post Standard, October 22, 2011. ""I've been playing around a lot with dwarfs and hybrids," he said. 'Homestead' elms are hybrids from the Netherlands' elm breeding program that have symmetrical, somewhat pyramidal crowns. 'Homestead' elms are resistant to pollution, making them ideal for cities, and are hardy to 40 degrees below zero." - "Joint effort between the New York Flora Association, the New York Natural Heritage Program, the New York State Museum, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and other partner herbaria with the goal to provide users with a comprehensive searchable database of the vascular and non-vascular plants of New York State." Lists plants by county.
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- Library of Congress site allows you to "search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present." Newspapers from California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia are currently available. A search for Skaneateles Lake, for example, retrieves the following classified ad in the June 11, 1905 New York Sun (Second Section, p. 10 - Image 24): "On Skaneateles Lake: For sale, a fine plot of five acres, suitable for a gentleman's summer home, in the beautiful village of Skaneateles, N.Y., 18 miles west of Syracuse on the line of the New York Central and Syracuse Electric R. R. It has a 200-feet lake front and 190 feet on the main residential street. There are no mosquitoes or malaria; it is an ideal summer resort, and has the purest drinking water in the State: good sewerage and electric lights. The lake is the finest in central New York, being 17 miles long and ¾ mile wide. Will sell at $10,000. Address T. W. Specht, Skaneateles, N.Y."
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p. 32: “At last we came to a beautiful plain, on which stands an Indian town inhabited by Gajukas, named Ganatocheracht. This was the port for which we were bound, and from whence we were to continue our journey be land to Onondago.”
p. 39-40: "We then passed through the plain over several hills, and at last came to a lake, which the Indians called Ganiataragechiat. We reached it at the point where the before mentioned creeks empty into it. At first it flows from E. S. E. to N. N. W., and then, as we saw on the morrow, it inclines to the N. and at Gajuka to the N. by E. In the beginning it is from three to four miles wide, continues thus for a time, then widens from five to six miles, until at Gajuka it is from seven to eight miles wide. It is a very long stream, for we traveled 50 miles along it, and saw it later from ten to fifteen miles farther on, so that it must be a least seventy miles long before it flows out. Its water is as clear as crystal, and the Indians say deeper than they can tell. There are many fish it in, especially eels. Hills and mountains bound the lake on both sides. Many large and small creeks rush down from them and empty into the lake, often falling down over the rocks from a height of ten, twelve to twenty feet. Beyond the lake there is a particularly large creek, named Tschochnioke, which, as the Gajuka and another Indian told us, falls over the rocks from a height of 150 feet, and empties into the lake."
- Dryden Mutual Insurance Company exhibition of photographs by Verne Morton (1868-1945) of Groton, New York. Images include:
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Patents: Hardenbergh; Scott; Blenheim; Corry; Saratoga; Kortright, Rapelje; Hartwick; Belvedere; Wallace; Fonda; Cosby; Rumbout
- Library of Congress subject headings
- Antirent War, N.Y. 1839-1946
- Land grants - New York (State)
- Land Tenure - New York (State)
- Landlord and tenant - New York (State) - History
- Rent strikes - New York (State) - History
Key Words:
distress for rent, Downrenter's Rebellion, durable leases, lease in fee, landlordism, manorial tenures, feudal tenures, feudal privilege, landlackers, leasehold lands, leasehold estates, leasehold tenures, leases in perpetuity, manors, patents, patroons, patroonship, perpetual lease, perpetual tenancy, quarter sales, rent strike, rent system,
- Land grants - New York (State)
- Books
- Agrarian Conflict in Colonial New York (1940) - By Irving Mark
- Anti-Rent Agitation in the State of New York, 1839-1846, by Edward P. Cheyney, Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, circa 1888 (64pp. pamphlet.) Number two of the "Political Economy and Public Law Series" issued by the University of Pennsylvania, and edited by Edmund J. James.
- Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865 (2001) - By Charles McCurdy. $45.00 at Amazon.com
- Centennial History of Delaware County, New York : 1797-1897 - Chapter VIII - Anti Rent Troubles
- Downrenter's Son - By Ruth Hall (fiction)
- Free Soil - a Free People: the Anti-Rent War in Delaware County, New York (1997) - By Dorothy Kubik
- Helderbergia, or, the Apotheosis of the Heroes of the Antirent War (1855) - By Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (fiction)
- History of Delaware County and Border Wars of New York... by Jay Gould (1856)
- History of Delaware County: Town of Middletown by W. W. Munsell
- Land and Reform: Rural Society, Popular Protest and Party Politics in Antebellum New York (2000) - By Reeve Huston
- Littlepage Manuscripts - Fiction, a trilogy by James Fennimore Cooper consisting of Satanstoe (1845), The Chainbearer (1845), and The Red-Skins (1846)
- Parsonage Between Two Manors: Annals of Clover Reach (1925) - By Elizabeth Louisa Gebhard (fiction)
- A Return to His Native Town: Martin Van Buren's Life at Lindenwald, 1839-1862 - National Park Service (207 pages in pdf format)
- Tin Horns and Calico: A Decisive Episode in the Emergence of American Democracy (1945)- By Henry Christman
Legislation: Duer Report, Act Concerning Tenures by Lease, Armed & Disguised Act, Whipple Report
Names: Osman Steele; Edward O'Connor; John Van Sternburgh; Smith A. Boughton; Daniel W. Squires; William A. Duer; Thomas Ainge Devyr, editor of The Anti-Renter;
The Colonial Albany Social History Project is a good source for locating biographical information. It has an index.
- Anti-Rent Agitation in the State of New York, 1839-1846, by Edward P. Cheyney, Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, circa 1888 (64pp. pamphlet.) Number two of the "Political Economy and Public Law Series" issued by the University of Pennsylvania, and edited by Edmund J. James.
- Another valuable source of full-text materials is the Making of America project, a "digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction" at the University of Michigan and Cornell. Relevant titles include:
Books
- Colonial Records of the New York Chamber of Commerce, 1768-1784
- Documentary History of the State of New-York (4 vols.)
- General Index to the Documents of the state of New York, [1777-1857]
- Geography of the State of New York - See pp. 129-131
- Index to the Documents of the Legislature of New York, from the Year 1842 to the Year 1854, Inclusive - See pp. 160-162, 262, 264, 275-276
- Life of Silas Wright, Late Governor of the State of New York (1852) - See pp. 178-185, 196-198, 207-213, 221-222
- Life of William H. Seward with Selections from his Works (1855) - See pp. 60-62
- Lives of Governors of the State of New York - See pp. 781-783
- Reminiscences; Personal and Other Incidents; Early Settlement of Otsego County (1852) - By Levi Beardsley. Pp. 445-446. "Looking up to the north over the blue expanse of waters may be seen a high head-land jutting out into the lake, where stands Hyde Hall, the splendid and costly residence of the late George Clark, now owned and occupied by his son. Mr. Clark, the elder, was an Englishman by birth, and came to this country a few years after the revolution. He was a decendant in the direct line from Lieutenant Governonr Clark, a former provincial governor of New York, from whom the late George Clark (who I believe was his grandson) derived a large landed estate in Otsego county, as well as other portions of the state, and in other states also. George Clark encountered, at an early day, much opposition from his tenantry. The tenure by which they held their lands was not in accordance with the views of our citizens generally. They large estates were leased out, some on durable leases, at a small rent and and others for three lives or twenty-one years. I have a lease drawn out on a monstrous scroll of parchment, executed by his ancestor, and acknowledged before Sir William Johnson, now nearly one hundred years old, under which, as assignee, I used to own and occupy one of his farms in Cherry Valley. For many years I was tenant under Mr. Clark for this and other farms, and always found him kind and gentlemanly, so that I wanted no better landlord. He, of course, wanted his rents and what legally was due do him; and in exacting these his undoubted rights, he no doubt offended many of his tenants, who wanted a little more than their own. It was a tenure that I have often told him would give him trouble; for in my judgment, it was calculated to invite agressions on his rights, and its tendencies were adverse to the rapid growth and improvement of the country, as with us, each one wanted to be sole owner and master of what he possessed.
I have no doubt that leasing real estate in agricultural districts is a most pernicious system, and so I used to argue with him. Had he lived till the present time, he would have probably found in the anti-rent demonstrations, good cause to change his views, so far at least as the profits of leasing are concerned.
I am told that his son is inclined to pursue a different course, and by selling out the fee of his extensive domains, will relieve himself from much trouble; and I hope, will realize in the interest of his money, a better return than from the rents exacted under the old leases.
To do justice to his father's memory, I wish to state as the result of my honest and unbiassed judgment, that had tenants treated him with respect and kindness, and paid him the rents honestly due to him, they would have had no good right to complain; but they disliked the relation of landlord and tenant, and hence he was frequently annoyed with insolent demands, which his high English notions of strict right would not allow him to concede. He could be as obstinate as they, and hence collisions. Otsego county certainly should not complain of Mr Clark, for he not only expended his rents derived from that county, but a far larger amount, in the erection of those elegant buildings that adorn his estate; and which are, undoubtedly, the most expensive structures in the county, and probably the best private establishment west of Albany." [Beardlsey continues for several more pages to describe Clarke and his estate.]Articles
- Anti-Rent Disturbance - New Englander and Yale review, January 1846, Volume 4, Issue 13, pp. 92-113.
- The "Anti-Rent" Movement and Outbreak in New York - The American Whig review, December 1845, Volume 2, Issue 6 pp. 577-598. [There is an error in pagination, the article actually begins on p. 577 which is misnumbered 587.]
- Unrest: Manorial Society and the Market in the Hudson Valley, 1780-1850 - By Martin Bruegel, Journal of American History, Vol. 82, No. 4 (Mar., 1996), pp. 1393-1424.
- The Helderberg Advocate: A Public-Nuisance Prosecution a Century before Near v. Minnesota - By Ralph Frasca, Journal of Supreme Court History, Volume 26, Issue, November 2001, p. 215 - .
- Documentary History of the State of New-York (4 vols.)
Landlords: the majority of the land was held by the Van Rensselaer and Livingston families (Rensselaerwyck, Claverack, Livingston Manor & Clermont) but other landlords included Isaac Hardenbergh (Roxbury); George C. Clarke (Hyde Hall); Janet Montgomery (sister of Robert R. and Edward Livingston); John Armstrong; Morgan Lewis
- Library of Congress site allows you to "search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present." Newspapers from California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia are currently available. See Library of Congress press release - Bringing Historic Newspapers to Your Desktop: The National Digital Newspaper Program.
- Over ten million volumes with over 25% of them in the public domain. Limit your search to full view only to locate items available to all users. Some examples:
"This needed rest she therefore sought at Dr. Jackson's water cure on the beautiful shores of Skaneateles Lake. Here secluded from public gaze she spent some weeks in retirement; and yet not entirely so, for she was there invited and consented to deliver her lecture on Woman's Enfranchisement to the inmates of the cure." (p. 129). On pages 14 and 15 Amelia Bloomer recollects: "My earliest recollections are of a pleasant home in Homer, Cortlandt County, New York. Here I was born, and here the first six years of my life was passed. But little of these early days can now be recalled after sixty years have been added to them, yet there are a few incidents that are so deeply impressed upon memory that they seem but the occurrence of a week ago. First I recall the visit of some Indians to my father's house, and the latter buying a large knife of them. The Indians, my father and the knife come before me now as though they were indeed a reality of the present. Again, a scene comes before the mind's eye of my brother and myself looking from an upper window and seeing some Indians knocking at the door of a small untenanted house opposite to us. My brother, who was a few years older than myself, called out 'come in.' The Indians opened the door and stepped in, then out, and hearing a voice, but seeing no one, while my brother and I danced behind the blind at the trick we had played on them. Several children were on their way to school. One little girl jumped upon the wheel of a wagon which stood in front of a house, intending to get in and ride to school. The horse became frightened while she stood on the wheel, and ran away, throwing her violently to the ground and injuring her severly. The mirth of childhood was turned to sadness, and we trudged on to school, after seeing her unconscious form carried into the house."
Though the name of Skaneateles is on early French maps, our first account of the lake is in the Moravian journal of Bishop Cammerhoff, who came to the "long lake" with David Zeisberger, June 18, 1750, on the old trail to Onondaga from Oswasco Lake.
- Pulse of the Planet, February 12, 2009. The Tully Ice Harvest Festival is held annually in February. See also:
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- Five-part video essay by Post-Standard photographer John Berry.
Part I. Historical Outline by Henry B.Carrington
Part II. Reservations and Locations in New York: 1721, 1771 and 1890
Part III. Ancient and Modern Government, Provisions and Incidents, Including the Saint Regis Indians
Part IV. Religion Among the Six Nations, Including Saint Regis Indians
Part V. Industries of the Six Nations Indians
Part VI. Social Life, Games, and Amusements
Part VII. Marriage and the Indian Home
Part VIII. Temperance and Morals
Part IX. Educations, Schools and Language
Part X. Health and Vital Statistics
Part XI. Indian Names, Traditions and Reminiscences
Part XII. Annuities and Annuity Payments
Part XIII. The Six Nations Problem
Index - pp. 85-89
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- Find a NPR Station - National Public Radio. You can also use Speechbot search engine developed by Hewlett-Packard for audio & video content that is hosted and played from other websites. A search for Cortland for example, retrieves a segment on The Connection radio show in which Catherine Bertini of Cortland, the former United Nations World Food Programme executive director, affirms her support for John Bolton, Bush's pick for U.N. Ambassador ( in The Bolton Vote, May 13, 2005, WBUR, Boston). Also retrieved is a piece on the electoral college in November 2, 2004 show The Connection features Judith Best, a political science professor at the State University of New York at Cortland and who also is interviewed on the Diane Rehm Show on Nov 10, 2000.
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- By David Figura, Syracuse Post-Standard, September 06, 2011. "New York trapped and removed 44 feral swine in Cortland and Onondaga counties in 2008 and 2009, but that effort ended when the state's budget got tight. Now authorities are working to build public awareness of the problem and encourage people to report sightings, as well as urging hunters with small-game licenses to shoot them, any time of year." There is a photography of Joe Watkins as he "stands next to a wild boar that he shot on Saturday near his home in the Cortland County town of Scott. The boar had one-inch tusks and weighed about 475 pounds. It's being held up by a backhoe." - By Cindy Horswell, Houston Chronicle, October 18, 2011."...white-tailed deer, secretly brought into Texas from northern states to breed with native deer in an effort to produce trophy bucks with chandelier-sized antlers. " See also: - By David Wallis, New York Times, August 17, 2007.
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by Don Cazentre, Syracuse Post-Standard, May 20, 2011.
by Yolanda Wright, Syracuse Post Standard, May 3, 2007 and
French flavor to hit Skaneateles, by Linda Ober, Skaneateles Journal, January 2, 2007 and
New York couple brings French bistro to Skaneateles [not online] by Greg Erbstoesser, appeared in the Central New York Business Journal, January 26, 2007
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by Pam Lundborg, Syracuse Post Standard, June 12, 2009.
- By Kathleen Poliquin, Syracuse Post-Standard, September 25, 2011. "the 43-acre property, the house, a free-standing studio -- the first MacKenzie-Childs studio -- and a three-story carriage house, is on the market for $1.1 million. Between the buildings, there are seven bedrooms, four full baths and two half baths on the property."Sports
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- By Jill P. Capuzzo, New York Times, November 13, 2008. (Havens series)
Early travel books describing Trenton Falls include: Trenton Falls, picturesque and descriptive (1851) by N. Parker Willis, A description of Trenton Falls, Oneida county, N.Y. (1844) by John Sherman, and Descriptive guide to the Adirondacks, (land of the thousand lakes) and to Saratoga Springs; Schroon Lake; Lakes Luzerne, George, and Champlain; the Ausable Chasm; the Thousand Islands; Massena Springs; and Trenton Falls (1894) by Edwin R. Wallace, all from the Cornell University Library New York State Historical Literature Collection. Many artists painted there - among the more well-known are Frederic E. Church, John F. Kensett (1816-1872), and Thomas Hicks (1823-1890). See the catalog accompanying the 1989 exhibition: Art of Trenton Falls, 1825-1900. Exhibition organized by Paul D. Schweizer, with essays by David Tatham, and Carol Gordon Wood. Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute [Utica], Syracuse University Press, 1989. The New-York Historical Society owns Trenton Falls, West Canada Creek, New York by Johan M. Culverhouse, 1869, and Trenton High Falls, attributed to William James Bennett, ca. 1835. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston owns Trenton Falls, New York (Suydam Falls) by John F. Kensett, c. 1851-1853, acquisition #48.438. The Secretary of State and the Diplomatic Corps at Trenton Falls, Harper's Weekly, September 19, 1863 [Vol. VII, No. 351] . This is an engraving on the cover of the magazine, made from a photograph by William J. Baker of Utica. It portrays William H. Seward, Baron De Stoeckel, M. Molina, Lord Lyons, M. Mercier, M. Schleiden, M. Bertinatti, Count Piper, M. Bodisco, Mr. Sheffield and Mr. Donaldson at the base of the Falls. Other artists who painted Trenton Falls include: Ambrose Andrews (790-1860), William James Bennett, de Witt Clinton Boutelle (1820-1884), Frederic E. Church, Johan M. Culverhouse, Thomas Doughty (1793-1856), Washington F. Friend (ca. 1820-after 1880), Robert Havell, Jr., (1793-1878), Thomas Hicks (1823-1890), David Johnson (1827-1908), Robert Jones, John F. Kensett (1816-1872) George W. King (1836-1922?), Philippe Regis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand (1816-1897), Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872), Ferdinand Joachim Richardt (1819-1895), Catherine Scollay, John White Allen Scott (1815-1907), Thomas Sully (1783-1872), James B. Sword (1839-1915), Place names associated with Trenton Falls include Alhambra Fall, Canada Creek Falls, Cascade of the Alhambra, Falls of Canada Creek, High Fall, High Falls, High Falls of Trenton, Irving's Bluff, Lower High Falls, Mohawk and Malone Railroad Bridge, Parapet Falls, Rocky Heart, Rural Resort, Sherman Falls, Sherman Fall, Sherman Falls, Suydam Falls, Thornwood, Trenton Fall, Trenton Falls Hotel, Trenton High Falls, Upper High Falls, Village Falls, It also is of great interest to geologists. See Geologic Overview of the Trenton Group at West Canada Creek, New York - Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. See also Trenton Falls Scenic Trails and Trenton Falls, Chapter 13, Mohawk: Discovering the Valley of the Crystals by M. Paul Keesler. Trenton Falls, Picturesque and Descriptive. Nearby are two lovely roads to explore: Dover Road and Military Road. See Town of Russia - Roads which provides the following information "The best known of the first roads was State/Military Road that was built across the hills, originally called the State Road when it was surveyed in 1806 and then opened to travel in 1808. After leaving Albany to Johnstown, it followed a course through the Town of Oppenheim to Dolgeville and then turned northwesterly through the settlements of Salisbury, Salisbury Corners, Norway, Cold Brook, Russia, Boon's Bridge on the West Canada Creek near Prospect, and then northward to Remsen and Boonville, and eventually to Sackett's Harbor. It is the oldest road in the Town, running from southeast to northeast across the Town. During the War of 1812 this road was used to supply the fort at Oswego on Lake Ontario. Troops were marched over it and chains were carried north to close the St. Lawrence River to the British. In the early 1900's the section in Herkimer County was named Military Road."
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