This week we’ll look at an item from the Harris Family Collection #17 which was donated by Phil Harris. An advertising circular for W.S. Tuttle “Finished Marble and Granite Monuments and Headstones” located at 150 Bay Street in Glens Falls, New York. In the circular he gives references for monuments he provided to noteworthy…
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Rewind: November 1, 2021 – “Problems at Big Boom”
Rewind: November 1, 2021 – “Problems at Big Boom” Problems at Big Boom Some Big Boom history: “As early as the 1850s the little spar booms envisioned by Abraham Wing III were quite inadequate to hold the floating logs until needed by the mills. Every time there was a freshet,…
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Civil War Era Letter
Civil War Era Letter from O.D. Vaughn of Ballston Spa, New York to Asa S. Harris of Queensbury, New York. Letter is in regards to settlement of an estate. In the letter, O.D. Vaughn mentions that he and his wife Emily attended the Inauguration of President Lincoln on March 4, 1865. They spent six days…
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