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Little Falls, NY

This day in history: July 3

1866

A fire at 2 o’clock in the morning at the Hinchman House Barn on Albany street caused $54,000 in damages. Valuable furnishings, goods and property were removed from the hotel and adjoining stores by the firemen. The whole corner of Main and Second streets, as well as the Hinchman House itself, was wiped out. It was felt that the fire was an act of arson.

1876

Everybody is going to the Centennial after haying.

1886

The new sports venue, Riverside Park. opened with a game between the newly formed Little Falls professional base ball team and Canastota before seven hundred fans. Admission was 25 cents; ladies free. The locals lost their inaugural game.

1896

It is stated that the overhead railroad crossing at Second Street is to be built at once, and will be ready for use by the middle of the month.

1903

George A. Wyman, the first person to cross America by motorcycle, riding from San Francisco to New York City, stopped in Little Falls mid-day. Here he sought out a repair shop to make a new leather drive belt which had slipped off seven times the previous day.

1918

Mayor Zoller and the Common Council met for the first time at the new City Hall for an official session.

1919

The first airplane to land near Little Falls was a DeHaviland-four, piloted by Lt. Malcolm Allison. He flew here to participate in the “Welcome Home” celebration.

1964

Mrs. Frederika Conrad, president of the Board of Education, signed a three year lease, at $1,500 per year, for one kindergarten classroom at the Masonic Temple.

1970

Today is the official opening of the “City of Little Falls Diamond Jubilee” celebration which will continue until July 12th with a gigantic parade and a display of fireworks to climax the memorable week of festivities.

1976

Moss Island, in Little Falls, is the 22nd natural landmark in New York State to be designated to the National Registry of Natural Landmarks by the United States Secretary of the Interior.

Many thanks to Louie Baum for his research for This Day in History.

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1912 Little Falls Textile Strike
1940 Gulf Curve Train Wreck
240th Anniversary of the Battles of Stone Arabia and Klock’s Field
Athletics Wing Collection
Battle of West Canada Creek
Camp Jolly Exhibit
Church Street Cemetery Tour
City Hall – A History
Distant Drums – Little Falls during the Civil War Era
Early Base Ball in Little Falls
Early Little Falls Buildings and Organizations
First U.S. Cheese Market Exhibit
Frog Fountain
Herkimer County Bank
Little Falls African American History
Little Falls Diamonds Collection
Little Falls Music Exhibit
Little Falls Waterways
Little Falls and Women’s Suffrage
Making History Today
Making History Today Student Edition
Massacre at the Little Falls Grist Mill
Myjava, Slovakia, Sister City of Little Falls
Native American Exhibit
Prohibition Exhibit
Rockton Exhibit
Urban Renewal Exhibit
Vietnam War Exhibit
World War II and Korean Conflict Exhibit
Writing Series

Little Falls Historic Home: 528 Garden Street

February 21, 2023/by Little Falls Historical Society Museum

528 Garden Street is a historic home in Little Falls and is #28 on the Little Falls Historical Society Museum’s self-guided walking tours.

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