Little Falls Municipal Pool Fund Raising Update
Our goal is $130,000 to help make it possible for the Little Falls Pool to open for the 2026 season. For many kids, the pool is where summer memories are made.
Entries by Little Falls Historical Society Museum
Save Summer for Our Children in Little Falls By Rick Hartman
The Francis Skinner Municipal Swimming Pool in Little Falls, which has been relied upon for generations since it first opened in 1961, is in danger of not opening this summer.
Officers Raid Booze Plant In Manheim
Uncover Still On Farm Of Josiah Winants
MOTORCADE TO REVEAL SCENIC ATTRACTIONS OF NEW GORGE VIEW HIGHWAY
From the Little Falls Historical Society Archives, The Little Falls Evening Times, Tuesday, September 30, 1938.
FLOATING “HOT DOG” STAND ON INGHAMS LAKE (KEYSER LAKE)
From the Little Falls Historical Society Archives. First printed in the July 14, 1931 Little Falls Evening Times.
The Lockout of the 20,000
In 1886, 20,000 knitting mill employees were locked out of their jobs by 50 mill owners in New York’s Mohawk Valley. The lockout was mostly lost to history but recently came to light.
Remembering the Old Manheim Neighborhood
Much of today’s third ward of the City of Little Falls was once widely referred to as “the Manheim neighborhood.”
57 Years Later, Reflections on the Tet Offensive
On the night of January 30th 1968, the first day of the Vietnamese New Year (Tet), communist forces launched an enormous, concerted attack on American strongholds throughout South Vietnam.
BURIAL GROUND SIGN PLACEMENT COMPLETES LONG PROJECT
The combined efforts of the City of Little Falls and the Little Falls Historical Society over a ten-year period culminated in a Thursday August 7th well-attended sign dedication ceremony at the African American Burial Ground section of Church Street Cemetery.
VICTOR ADAMS, A MAN OF PAPER, AND THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE NORTH WOODS
In the years when Little Falls was renowned in the Mohawk Valley as the center of the knit-goods industry, Victor Adams’ Box Manufactory provided employment opportunities to many of its local citizens with the manufacturing of paper boxes.