The Society recently received three new accessions from two collections that I’d like to share with you. The Glens Falls and Lake George Plank Road company was chartered by the State of New York and opened in 1848. It started from near present day Crandall Park and ran north to the village limit of Caldwell…
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Rewind: May 1, 2020, The Convent of the Sisters of St. Joseph
The Sisters of St. Joseph, who started St. Mary’s School and taught there for many years, first came to Glens Falls before January1883 to open the grammar school. The first school was on Church Street behind the current church. Six nuns from the order Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet came to Glens Falls from…
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