This day in history: August 1
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1836
Regular passenger train service on a single track of the Schenectady – Utica division of the Mohawk & Hudson Railroad was inaugurated in Little Falls and the Mohawk Valley. Construction and freight trains had been running for some time. The first Mohawk & Hudson train ran from Albany to Schenectady on August 9, 1831.
1933
A major milk strike flares throughout the county with disorder in Little Falls. About one half the normal supply of milk was received at the local processing plants. Clubs were brandished freely by the strikers, and Chief Long and his men endeavored to keep access to the plants open.
