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Emily Howland, beyond the directory’s job title
The 1929 directory put Emily Howland under farming. Its short entry also recorded an honorary degree and connections well beyond that label.
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The 1929 directory put Emily Howland under farming. Its short entry also recorded an honorary degree and connections well beyond that label.
Open recordDEC’s 2014 survey used several kinds of nets and electrofishing. The report shows why a catch needs its method beside it.
Open recordA 2006 walleye survey came with a warning: where the fish were sampled changed what the numbers could mean.
A 1911 history describes the Ogarita taking over more than an older boat’s place: it received the Canandaigua’s engine.
Open recordA written recollection links summer commuters, dockside signals and autumn fruit moving from the lake to the railway.
Open recordIn 2004, a college rearing program linked two lakes through young walleye, student work and volunteers.
Open recordA low walleye total in the 2004–05 diary report came with an important qualification: fewer trips had targeted walleye.
Open recordA 1943 Cornell notice records a second journey for the Watkins Glen hotel’s books: into a new collection of regional history.
Open recordThe resort’s brochure tells visitors where to change trains, when to send a telegram and what the room price did—and did not—cover.
Open recordA contract copied into Skaneateles’s local history tied a mail-coach schedule to the season when Hudson River steamboats stopped running.
Open recordLeslie’s village history describes messages arriving by stage, local money for a new wire, and the cost of opening offices along the line.
Open recordTwo dated plans let us follow Honeoye’s inlet work from a proposed realignment to a reported 2017 completion—without mistaking a design goal for a measured result.
Open recordThe Case laboratory’s museum record follows two 1920 experiments: measuring daylight for industry and listening without success for a message from Mars.
Open recordThe 1841 report calls navigation uninterrupted, then describes an unusable lock. Its explanation is an alternate route through the junction lock.
Open recordDated announcements show a 35-acre Otisco Lake project moving from acquisition and planting in 2020 to a county transfer in 2022.
Open recordA 1998 acoustic survey gave two researchers a way to read buried layers—and left important questions about dates and causes open.
Open recordCaroline Cowles Richards’s account of the 1856 Canandaigua fire follows bank keys out the door and a damaged bank into temporary quarters.
Open recordThe NWS account follows the 1998 Labor Day derecho through roads, boats, shoreline houses and power lines around Cayuga and Owasco lakes.
Open recordAt the close of the 1840 season, the commissioners described a lock that had to be rebuilt before Crooked Lake Canal navigation could resume.
Open recordA federal authorization list puts Canandaigua Industries and Widmer’s Wine Cellars on the page under their own names and identifiers.
Open recordThe 1930 agricultural census puts apples and grapes in the same Ontario County table, with different dates and units for what grew and what was harvested.
Open recordThe 2010 land transfer around Hemlock and Canadice left distinct responsibilities for the forest, water facilities and local payments.
Open recordA woman’s published recollection of a brief stay and another visitor’s meal complicate the picture of a community eating together.
Open recordIn the commissioners’ account of the 1840 season, new bars formed while the dredge worked, and a separate feeder-drain proposal remained unfunded.
Open recordA retrospective dates the perimeter sewer to 1978. Four decades later, a state plan still had a separate list of infrastructure work to consider.
Open recordA Canandaigua diary preserves two 1857 picture-making visits: one at home and one at Mr. Finley’s, where classmates made a gift for their teacher.
Open recordA 1995 Cornell report kept labor hours visible in a five-year vineyard experiment, while keeping company payroll rates private.
Open recordIn its guide for the summer of 1890, the New York Central turned grape picking, steamer cargo, cottages and named hotels into an invitation to visit Keuka.
Open recordAn 1851 newspaper printed a Rochester antislavery society’s constitution, from raising funds to finishing the sewing and keeping supper simple.
Open recordThe small print on an 1852 front page offered club prices, commissions and a way to subscribe with friends who used different post offices.
Open recordTwo letters follow a tutor beyond the Seward household: a winter appointment ahead, lessons continuing in Auburn and an invitation to return.
Open recordA July 2000 news report describes pilot testing. A later monitoring report records commercial operation, missing analyses and a winter interruption.
Open recordO-Neh-Da, Barry and Eagle Crest appear in different kinds of Conesus wine paperwork. The dated entries give us a research trail without proving an unbroken chain of ownership.
Open recordAn advertisement for an August 1911 picnic at Davis Grove laid out the journey: a train to Otisco Lake, a steamer connection and separate fares for each leg.
Open recordThe National Park Service’s account of Auburn’s Thompson Memorial church preserves another building story: congregation members supplied much of the labor for a 1910 parsonage.
Open recordGeneva’s College Club grew out of an exclusion. In the museum archivist’s account, its members built a program of their own—and a tea room helped fund students.
Open recordBefore the Lincoln Hill campus, the Community College of the Finger Lakes borrowed its shape from downtown Canandaigua: classes in the rooms that were available.
Open recordBarbara H. Bell’s investigation of a Seneca Lake schooner found a problem in the celebration: the newspaper and the silver presentation urn did not name the same owners.
Open recordA Wells librarian found a 1959 letter in which first-year students challenged parts of Customing. The six-week introduction to college had rules of its own.
Open recordThe VA’s history places the Canandaigua hospital’s beginnings in an estate purchase and distinguishes the arrival of its first patients from the day it opened to visitors.
Open recordA 1945 Penn Yan catalog asked readers to plan a future boat purchase. A large wartime warning and a model table did not give the same answer about availability.
Open recordThe Council dates its FLCC monitoring partnership to 1996. Its report index shows how one lake became a sequence of sampling sites, seasons and longer comparisons.
Open recordIn the comic class history attributed to Emma Lampert, a literary-society quarrel became Kipp versus Lampert. The student narrator made sure the juniors got their verdict.
Open recordA task force, a report and a consultant grant sit behind the Canandaigua Lake Watershed Council’s account of its beginnings.
Open recordThe college’s library traced student self-government to an 1897 trial. The rules reached into exercise, bedtime and Sunday music—and the library did not become quiet simply because a code existed.
Open recordA hotel, two Morgan houses and Morgan Hall helped Wells carry on after its main building burned. Replacing the library took a separate effort by former students and other donors.
Open recordThe 1935 agricultural census counted more than vineyards. Cayuga County’s column records cabbage fields, sweet corn, tomatoes and land in orchards and vines.
Open recordCharles A. Lee praised Elizabeth Blackwell’s persistence. A footnote added to his printed commencement address said he would oppose admitting women to future lectures.
Open recordAfter a fire, a public letter insisted that Glen Haven had not been destroyed. Its writers described moving guests into a hotel and urged prospective patients not to stay away.
Open recordRob’s Trail was a memorial as well as a connection between Hemlock and Canadice. The Nature Conservancy’s account puts volunteers at the center of its 2016 trail work.
Open recordA prickly crop connected Skaneateles fields with woolen cloth. Edmund Norman Leslie’s account follows it from an August harvest into winter trimming and packing shops.
Open recordReplies printed in the Water-Cure Journal show Glen Haven inviting guests to a June 1852 festival. One correspondent declined while questioning the certainty of medical theories.
Open recordThe man whose name became attached to a Massachusetts rebellion later lived near Conesus. A biography follows his marriage and pension request; local records leave a disputed death date.
Open recordA newspaper published six days after the Cayuga Lake fire records a rescue effort and eight deaths, while acknowledging that the coroner’s formal report was still unpublished.
Open recordScott’s Hammondsport training led to exhibition flying, but the sources do not agree on every early flight or the priority claim attached to it.
Open recordThe Cayuga Museum’s Edgewater account connects summer recreation on Owasco Lake with the lives of women working in Auburn’s factories.
Open recordThe county’s park timeline separates a railway company’s lakeside attraction, Emerson’s gift and the later addition of Deauville Island.
Open recordCurtiss’s December 1908 letter to Bell describes cold-weather testing, a burst hose and the mechanical work behind the Silver Dart’s early trials.
Open recordAfter the 1972 flood, Corning’s museum had to recover glass and a soaked library. Opening the doors again was only one milestone in the work.
Open recordMartisco’s brick station survived a demolition threat through a railway-history group’s lease, purchase and repairs, according to the town’s history.
Open recordThe old road course depended on more than drivers. A racing archive’s account describes garages, households and several governments making the event possible.
Open recordThe Divine Word alumni history follows its Conesus property from farm to seminary, including the cooking and laundry work that supported the school.
Open recordThe Marcellus railway began with electric ambitions. The historical society’s account follows the line that actually carried passengers, farm goods and mail toward Otisco Lake.
Open recordA historical society’s film announcement points beyond the rides to the people who worked at Roseland and the lakeshore that changed around it.
Open recordSkaneateles’s library incorporated an older office into its building plan. According to its history, the doorway between them came almost a century later.
Open recordIthaca College traces its beginnings to a small music school downtown, with rented teaching rooms and a public concert on opening night.
Open recordAn 1896 county history follows a two-and-a-half-mile millrace along Ninemile Creek from a private association into the state canal system.
Open recordA proposed reservoir put Honeoye into Rochester’s water plans. A participant engineer’s 1932 account preserves stages that later summaries compress.
Open recordWhitford’s canal history describes a celebratory boat trip in May 1833. Flood damage then delayed the Chemung Canal’s navigation season until October.
Open recordSonnenberg’s restoration account describes buried garden features, divided rooms and the work behind opening the estate to visitors in 1973.
Open recordThe museum’s Packwood history follows a carriage maker across the street to a hotel, then follows his former works into a different lakeshore use.
Open recordA woman in the gallery left an account of Elizabeth Blackwell’s Geneva graduation. The letter gives the ceremony a witness beyond the graduate herself.
Open recordThe Genesee Valley Canal served the wider western Finger Lakes corridor. Whitford’s chronology shows why its opening cannot be reduced to one year.
Open recordA property at Honeoye Lake’s south end became a place for students to gather data, following Florence Muller’s 1999 gift to FLCC.
Open recordSonnenberg’s glasshouses grew fruit, vegetables and flowers for two homes. Their room names still describe the work they were built to do.
Open recordA 1987 report used more than a thousand survey returns to describe life around Conesus Lake—and explained whose lives its results missed.
Open recordFor a decade, the winter carnival made the frozen waterfront a place for contests. Later accounts also remember the strain of the crowds.
Open recordBefore Rochester adopted a new forest plan in 1993, an inventory documented the woods around Hemlock and Canadice.
Open recordThe local historical society tells the fair’s beginnings through a hotel gathering, a two-day event and years of horse racing.
Open recordThe bells came before their familiar tower. Cornell’s history follows them through two earlier settings.
Open recordBefore the familiar flying-machine story, Curtiss was building engines and taking a very unusual motorcycle to a Florida speed trial.
Open recordThe Lightning began with a practical brief: room for friends, enough performance to race, and a design that people could build.
Open recordThe Case lab’s story starts in basements and a greenhouse, before a partnership with Fox brought its work into filmmaking.
Open recordIthaca supplied more than scenery for the Whartons’ films. The museum’s account also points to the people doing the work.
Open recordWhitford’s canal history records a dispute over the Keuka outlet: the canal needed water, but so did the mills downstream.
Open recordAccounts from both sides of the Smith’s 1930 renovation survive in its historian’s research. They do not agree about the delays.
Open recordA proposed cinder path promised a ride toward Cayuga Lake. Newspaper accounts collected by Historic Geneva show a slower, unfinished project.
Open recordWillard Chapel’s later history includes a church congregation and a local campaign to prevent its interior from being dismantled.
Open recordMarcellus's library began in an upstairs reading room. Its later moves took it above a bank, into a house, and eventually to Maple Street.
Open recordBefore the Steadman House, Marcellus's historical society made a museum in municipal rooms. One founder remembered building its shelves with lumber from the Upper Crown Mill.
Open recordThe committee thought an octagon would fit the awkward site and seat more children for the money. A surviving building survey preserves its argument.
Open recordJames Silk Buckingham's account of an 1838 journey describes wooden rails, horse power and an awkward meeting on a single track.
Open recordLocal histories describe Lakeville as a place where a railway trip could continue on the water.
Open recordHarold Saxton's 1973 account describes a floating research platform anchored over more than 500 feet of water.
Open recordA 1992 Navy abstract records a 150-ton test assembly's arrival at Seneca Lake in May 1990.
Open recordAn EPA announcement in 2004 and a later investigation describe different stages of work around the former factory.
Open recordClosure planning and environmental investigation overlapped in the depot's 1990s record.
Open recordA family house, an eight-year vacancy, classrooms, and a threatened demolition: the records leave more than one chapter to explore in Canandaigua.
Open recordHistoric Geneva's research puts paid workers beside the Swan family in Rose Hill's history.
Open recordAustin Steward remembered two days of meetings, speeches, music, and fundraising. His account also makes room for the women whose fair helped pay the speakers.
Open recordA state report lists 198.4 meters. Another lists 188.0. The difference belongs in the record, even before we can explain it.
Open recordPassengers, mail, and freight shared a steamboat's working life, as Historic Geneva recounts it.
Open recordIn 2019, researchers compared fixed instruments, shoreline surveys, and laboratory samples on Seneca and Owasco Lakes. The methods did not always tell the same story.
Open recordRochester planted trees to protect its water supply. When disease appeared in the plantations, the work expanded into nurseries, underplanting, and a laboratory in Springwater.
Open recordA 1982 sale study brought meetings and petitions. A year later, Congress changed the legal status of the federally owned Hector lands.
Open recordFlooded land, mill power, and canal navigation pulled water-level policy in different directions. A 1906 state history records the arguments without making them disappear.
Open recordHistoric Geneva traces a waterfront built outward, then repeatedly remade.
Open recordA college, two military eras, and veterans' museum work appear in the state's account of Sampson.
Open recordA 1919 federal bulletin recorded seven wells beside a Seneca Lake salt plant, with salt nearly 1,800 feet below the surface. Its tables also preserve a few unanswered questions.
Open recordE. Lewis Sturtevant took possession of Geneva's new agricultural research station in March 1882. His first report records the work of making a farm ready for science.
Open recordAn 1894 foreclosure account and an 1898 map show a Skaneateles boat works changing hands and standing idle. The names behind the business are harder to untangle.
Open recordCourt records, a factory inventory, and old timetables trace parts of a working landscape on Cayuga Lake. A railroad historian's memory adds the people aboard the morning train.
Open recordOtisco Lake's southern crossing was built, rebuilt, eroded, and repaired. Repairing the causeway did not bring the road back.
Open recordNear Hall's Corners, a farmer's pail caught seven inches of rain. A federal report used that observation, flow estimates, and damage photographs to document the July 1935 storm.
Open recordA loaded boat passed the Seneca Falls locks in 1818. The completed state route from Geneva to the Erie Canal came a decade later.
Open recordCaroline Cowles Richards lived in Canandaigua before she ever set foot on a boat. Her 1854 picnic diary and an earlier visitor's account offer two ways of seeing the lake.
Open recordAn 1881 excursion guide offered a round trip from New York to Watkins Glen by rail and steamer. An earlier guide shows what visitors were promised when they arrived.
Open recordTubman took people into her Auburn household long before the Home formally opened in 1908. The farm, a neighboring property, and an A.M.E. Zion partnership sustained that work.
Open recordLetters and later research connect the Skaneateles household of James and Lydia Canning Fuller with freedom seekers and abolitionists. The evidence reaches well beyond a local secret-room story.
Open recordAn 18-foot Penn Yan boat appears in wartime manuals and maintenance indexes. The records identify the Model AT, but leave its production numbers and service history unanswered.
Open recordGlenn Curtiss described a tugboat journey, wet fabric, a coin toss, and a flight that ended on the ice. His letter and Bell's later testimony disagree about the accident's date.
Open recordThe park's 1980 founding law named homes, a chapel, a theater, and an undeveloped lot in Seneca Falls and Waterloo. Its original plan depended on several places and many local partners.
Open recordAfter a private water contract expired in 1896, village voters backed a public system. The company challenged the project in a case that reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
Open recordRochester bought watershed land and planted millions of trees to protect its drinking water. DEC's 2015 plan describes the work behind the two lakes' forested shores.
Open recordAfter two days at the Wesleyan Chapel, a committee prepared the convention's proceedings for print. The report carried the Declaration of Sentiments from Seneca Falls to readers beyond the meeting.
Open recordRochester's engineers began measuring Canadice's outlet in 1903. The reports describe daily readings, unmeasured flow, and a unit-label error that survived in print for eleven years.
Open recordThe rain fell overnight on May 13–14. Damage assessments, a state request, and the federal disaster declaration followed over the next several weeks.
Open recordThe Agnes flood appears differently in weather reports, disaster records, and federal law. FEMA did not yet exist when the flood occurred.
Open recordBeverly Stamp of Lakewood Vineyards petitioned for the Seneca Lake appellation. It became official in 2003, as federal wine regulation moved from ATF to TTB.
Open recordDouglas and Susanna Knapp and Robert Plane asked for a Cayuga Lake wine appellation. The federal designation took effect in April 1988, inside the larger Finger Lakes region.
Open recordGlenn Curtiss flew 5,090 feet over Pleasant Valley on July 4, 1908. The trophy flight was announced in advance, publicly observed, and the work of a named experimental team.
Open recordA Rochester ballot led to a federal trial in Canandaigua in 1873. The records follow the vote, the directed verdict, and the fine that officials reported they could not collect.
Open recordThe 1940 agricultural census counted 1,228 hired farm workers for one September week and 461 for one March week. The difference is striking, though the table cannot tell us who they were.
Open recordThe original petition covered fourteen whole counties. Federal regulators reduced that proposed area by more than half before the Finger Lakes appellation took effect in 1982.
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