City and Historical Society continue efforts to recognize African American burial ground
Photo submitted – From left to right: City Engineer Chet Szymanski, 2nd Ward Alderman and...
Read Moreby My Little Falls | Sep 12, 2023 | LF Historical Society | 0 |
Photo submitted – From left to right: City Engineer Chet Szymanski, 2nd Ward Alderman and...
Read Moreby My Little Falls | Sep 11, 2023 | LF Historical Society, Newsletter, Top Stories | 0 |
By Ann E. Schuyler “Uncle Archie, can you make me disappear?” I asked. “Yes,” he said, “Go in the other room.” I was expecting something like levitation. Oh well, we continued our card game. My first memory of him was when I was...
Read Moreby David Warner | Aug 29, 2023 | LF Historical Society, Newsletter, Top Stories | 0 |
By Ann Eysaman Schuyler In 1944, I took my first train ride – all the way to Utica, NY. Having...
Read Moreby My Little Falls | Jul 27, 2023 | LF Historical Society, Newsletter, Top Stories | 3 |
African American burial ground in Church Street Cemetery The primary purpose of this piece of writing is to chronicle a history of African American presence in Little Falls from the time of slavery up to the 2015 dedication of a...
Read Moreby My Little Falls | Jul 13, 2023 | LF Historical Society, Newsletter, Top Stories | 7 |
By Cynthia Holick Foley The Underground Railroad (URR) was a loosely organized network of people, (men and women, African American and white,) dedicated to helping people escape from bondage in the slave-holding states of the...
Read Moreby My Little Falls | Jun 30, 2023 | Instant Articles, LF Historical Society, Newsletter, Top Stories | 14 |
My Recollections by Allen Kazmerski My father told the story many times of how when he was a little boy, his mother had to hold his hand tightly when they made their way downtown to do their shopping on Main Street in Little...
Read Moreby My Little Falls | May 15, 2023 | Featured, LF Historical Society, Newsletter, Top Stories | 0 |
By Jeff Gressler The Little Falls Historical Society will partner with the Yellow Church Cemetery...
Read Moreby My Little Falls | May 2, 2023 | LF Historical Society, News, Newsletter, Top Stories | 1 |
Friday, April 28, was National Historic Marker Day. The officers and directors of the Little Falls Historical Society marked this day by placing a new historic marker atop a previously installed marker pole at the site of the...
Read Moreby My Little Falls | Jan 19, 2023 | LF Historical Society, Newsletter, Top Stories | 15 |
By John Frazier Donnie Coffin was somewhat of an enigma. Those who remember him recall him as an easygoing guy, but not many people have vivid memories of him. He was described as having problems with authority, yet he left high...
Read Moreby My Little Falls | Jan 5, 2023 | Instant Articles, LF Historical Society, Newsletter, Top Stories | 2 |
By Louis W. Baum Introduction What did wealthy people do with their money? Some spent lavishly on...
Read Moreby My Little Falls | Dec 21, 2022 | Featured, Instant Articles, LF Historical Society, Newsletter, Top Stories | 15 |
By Jeff Gressler Decades before there was a Pine Ridge ski center in Salisbury or a Shu-maker...
Read Moreby My Little Falls | Dec 6, 2022 | LF Historical Society, Newsletter, Top Stories | 0 |
As the holidays are upon us, the Little Falls Historical Society would like readers of My Little Falls to consider giving their loved ones and friends copies of the great book BEYOND OUR BICENTENNIAL as Christmas gifts. One part...
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