Movement and connection
Follow waterways, railroads, roads, vessels, and the people whose movement connected lake communities.
Current exhibit
The order will evolve as new sourced material is separately approved. Items remain linked to their original evidence trails.
A traveler's 1816 view down Canandaigua's Main Street and a schoolgirl's 1854 steamer outing reveal the lake at two very different scales: village landscape and personal discovery.
Open recordTwo nineteenth-century guidebooks show how paths, printed instructions, railroads, steamers, lodging, souvenirs, and side trips turned a gorge into a complete visitor itinerary.
Open recordA near-contemporaneous Curtiss letter and Bell's later deposition preserve the weather, improvisation, damage, and documentary uncertainty surrounding an early Keuka aviation experiment.
Open recordOn July 4, 1908, Glenn Curtiss flew 5,090 feet near Hammondsport. The milestone is most meaningful when its familiar “first” is stated precisely.
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