Work and enterprise
Explore agriculture, mills, vineyards, industries, businesses, and everyday labor around the lakes.
Current exhibit
The order will evolve as new sourced material is separately approved. Items remain linked to their original evidence trails.
A seven-acre farm, an audacious mortgaged purchase, and an A.M.E. Zion partnership turned Tubman's Auburn home ground into a lasting Black care institution.
Open recordFederal catalogs, a War Department index, and an Army-Navy award list reveal a documented Model AT publication system—and the limits of what the surviving digital trail can prove.
Open recordIn 1987, three local petitioners asked federal regulators to recognize a wine region around Cayuga Lake inside the broader Finger Lakes appellation.
Open recordA Lakewood Vineyards petition became a 204,600-acre federal appellation in 2003, during the handoff from ATF to the newly created TTB.
Open recordA federal census captured sharply different hired-labor snapshots in late September 1939 and late March 1940—but it was not a year-round workforce count.
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