This day in history: July 17
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Date(s) - 17/07/2024 - 18/07/2024
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1777
Finding that Barry St, Ledger had massed troops and loyalists at Oswego in preparation to invade the Mohawk Valley, General Nichols Herkimer issued a proclamation calling for all men from sixteen to sixty to arm themselves and prepare to march to Fort Stanwix in defense of the valley. Men over sixty were to defend the homes.
1874
Judge Loomis is having the swamp lot, on the corner north of the Catholic church, filled in with gravel from the hills above. This will make a good building site, and be an improvement over the duck pond that has existed there for years.
1883
A contract was made by the village with McDermott & Ashenhurst to build a sewerage system for a city of 10,200 people.
1945
WW II Era – Another accident at the Gorge View highway entrance to Little Falls as four tons of fish spilled when a freighter upsets on East Main Street. It wasn’t Friday, but dozens, if not hundreds, of local families had fish as their main course for dinner.
