Cooperstown’s celebration connects this national holiday to the area’s local history of emancipation. On July 4, 1827, African Americans from Cooperstown and the surrounding region celebrated the official end of slavery in New York State with an emancipation celebration at the Presbyterian meeting house.…
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185 YEARS AGO
Advertisement. The Old Post Rider’s Call in Earnest. The Subscriber, having made arrangements with a young man by the name of Henry Marble, to distribute papers on the route heretofore performed by him, will after this week, discontinue his services; and he informs his customers that their bills will be made out up to the 25th of March, trusting that every one of them will be prepared, cash in hand for a final settlement whenever he calls, which…
Susan B. Anthony in Otsego County, a Fair Winds Woodwind Quintet performance, "The World of Japanese Microseasons," and more.…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5 When Susan B. Anthony Visited Cooperstown CONNECTIONS—1 p.m. “The Strong-Minded Women Are Coming.” Tom Heitz, Otsego town historian, presents on Susan B. Anthony’s visit to Cooperstown in 1855. Connections at Clark Sports Center, 124 County Highway 52, Cooperstown. connectionsatcsc@gmail.com or visit https://www.facebook.com/otsegocountyOFA…
Bound Volumes November 9, 2023 110 YEARS AGOLocal—Some mysterious individual seems to have a mania for traversing the streets at night, disturbing the inhabitants of the village by running up on the doorsteps and leaving handbills and tracts attacking the Roman Catholic Church in general and the pope in particular. If these reformers have anything important to say, we would suggest that they hire a hall, or come around in the daylight.Linn Pope of Toddsville has been feasting on Calarab…
Bound Volumes, Hometown History September 28, 2023 90 Years AgoCamp No. 6 of the Civilian Conservation Corps at Davenport will be moved to McClure the latter part of October. The McClure Camp is four miles west of Deposit. Gypsy moth work will occupy the foresters during their stay there. Plans for the construction of barracks at Camp 30 in Gilbert Lake State Park have been received. It is expected that the contract will be let, rather than employing the members…
40 YEARS AGO
Tap water in Oneonta is distasteful and smells foul because engineers are pumping from the Susquehanna River to conserve precious water supplies in city reservoirs. The musty flavor is from leaf mold in the Mill Race, along the Susquehanna River, from which the city is drawing the river water, according to city engineer Richard C. Olton. “The resulting mold on the gathering leaves imparts the off-flavor,” Olton explained. Olton said chlorinating the river water and running it through…
Bound Volumes, Hometown History July 6, 2023 135 YEARS AGOFew places excel Oneonta in facilities for obtaining an education. About 20 years ago a union school was established with a building which most of the inhabitants thought extravagantly large; but three extensions have since been added, each in size almost equaling the original structure, besides a two-story building in the western part of the village. The entire system is now under direction and management of Prof. N.N. Bull, who has…
Hometown History April 13, 2023 125 Years AgoUnder the rules and regulations of the Board of Health, “every privy vault and cesspool shall be cleaned and contents thereof removed at least once in each year, and on or before the first of May,” etc. It is hoped that citizens will appreciate the importance of complying with the requirement and govern themselves accordingly. The farther the contents of these receptacles of filth can be removed from the human habitation the better.…