Chemung County Historical Society
Monday, April 21, 2025
An American Manufacturing Story: American LaFrance
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By Rachel Dworkin, archivist Last week I spent two days cataloging a collection of 163 photographs of the final assembly process for an ...
Monday, April 7, 2025
Arbor Day at Quarry Farm
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by Erin Doane, Senior Curator On May 7, 1909, 225 boys descended upon East Hill overlooking Elmira. Over the course of the morning, they...
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Monday, March 24, 2025
A Curious Story: Lillian Pagett Hobson
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by Susan Zehnder, Education Director While our country was founded almost 250 years ago by immigrants, attitudes about immigrants and immig...
Monday, March 10, 2025
A Bit of History Repeating
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By Rachel Dworkin, Archivist Since February 17 th , prison guards across New York State, including at Elmira Correctional, have been e...
Monday, February 24, 2025
Jesse Green Furrier
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By Erin Doane, senior curator On May 4, 1943, the Gorton Coy introduced their new furrier to customers in Elmira through an advertisement ...
Monday, February 10, 2025
The Improved Order of Red Men
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by Susan Zehnder, Education Director In August 1904, Michael J. O’Hara, in charge of records for the Improved Order of Red Men (IORM), left...
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