From the Cooney Archives: This Day in History
On February 14, 1937, the Old Bakery Oven found as Bellinger Block is razed on North Ann Street. Chief Cooney’s scrapbooks indicate it was in use 70 years ago, when A E Bellinger operated a bakery here.
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2023 Annual Report
View the 2022 Little Falls Historical Society Annual report Including membership, sponsors, online activities, writing series, and more.
LUNDSTROM BOOKCASE’S LONG JOURNEY HOME
Lundstrom sectional barrister bookcases are often found in local law offices and private homes,holding sets of law books and personal libraries.
2024 HISTORICAL SOCIETY WRITING SERIES DEDICATED TO EDWIN VOGT
In recent years, the Historical Society has dedicated its annual writing series to three teachers, Harold Templeman, Hector Allen, and Helen Dunteman, and to former city historian, and one of the Historical Society’s founding members, Edward Cooney. The Society’s 2024 writing series is being dedicated to Edwin Vogt.
1822 AQUEDUCT | A BRIDGE FOR BOATS
On December 1, 1853, John Burnham was attempted to cross the aqueduct on the side without rails, slipped on the ice, and fell 20 or 25 feet to his death upon the rocks below.
Mysteries of the Bowie Knife by Ann Schuyler
I sat by the window on the night of September 29th watching the last of four Super Full Moons when random memories ran through my mind.
ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS FIND THEIR WAY TO LITTLE FALLS
On November 1, 1891, forty-eight Italians arrived in Little Falls from Buffalo to work on the Little Falls–Dolgeville Railroad.
AN ELEPHANT NAMED BIMBO AND A FUNERAL by Darlene Smith
Most people usually don’t have an elephant attend a family member’s funeral, but then most other families didn’t have a grandfather who loved the circus the way Milo Smith did.
Home Of The First U.S. Open Air Cheese Market (Part 1)
DID YOU KNOW…Xerxes Willard wrote articles on the activities of the cheese industry at Little Falls, for the Utica Morning Herald & Daily Gazette, which were read by cheese producers, buying agents and merchants, eventually leading to Little Falls becoming the hub for the Cheese Market?
Home Of The First U.S. Open Air Cheese Market (Part 2)
Jonathan Burrell and his family were influential in making Little Falls the cheese capital of the United States and beyond.