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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.
Open recordLandscape over time
See how shorelines, watersheds, settlement, conservation, disasters, and recreation reshaped the region.
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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 recordThe NWS account follows the 1998 Labor Day derecho through roads, boats, shoreline houses and power lines around Cayuga and Owasco lakes.
Open recordThe 2010 land transfer around Hemlock and Canadice left distinct responsibilities for the forest, water facilities and local payments.
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 task force, a report and a consultant grant sit behind the Canandaigua Lake Watershed Council’s account of its beginnings.
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 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 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 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 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 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 recordFor a decade, the winter carnival made the frozen waterfront a place for contests. Later accounts also remember the strain of the crowds.
Open recordWhitford’s canal history records a dispute over the Keuka outlet: the canal needed water, but so did the mills downstream.
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 recordClosure planning and environmental investigation overlapped in the depot's 1990s record.
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 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 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 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 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.
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