New York State History Links

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New York State History

• Changes in Names of New York State Towns
• The Erie Canal
• The Erie Canal: A Brief History
  Part of the New York State Canal System website.
• The Erie Canal: A Journey Through History
  A multimedia online presentation.
• Historical County Population Data
  Populations of New York State Counties from 1790 to 1990.
• National Register of Historical Places—New York
• New York History Net
  New York History Net is devoted to New York history and culture. It is produced by the Institute for New York State Studies.
• New York State and the Civil War
• New York State Archives
• New York State County Formation Maps
• New York State Historical Association
  Located in Cooperstown, New York. Premier collections of American Folk Art, Fine Art, and Indian Art.
• New York State Library
• New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center
• New York State Newspaper Project
  A part of the New York State Library web site, this section describes the state-wide effort to inventory, catalog, and microfilm newspapers in all communities, as well as provide a research catalog of newspapers held in microfilm both at the New York State Library and at libraries around New York State.
• Origins of New York State's County Names
• Places Where Women Made History
  Historic places in New York and Massachusetts.
• Rediscovering New York
  Directs users to historical records and resources in New York State from libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives.
• September 11 Digital Archive
• State Historic Markers
• The Underground Railroad in New York State
• Upstate History Alliance
• Word on Women
  A directory of historic records collections documenting the history of women in upstate New York.

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Onondaga County and Central New York History

• Central New York Freedom Trail
• The Civil War in Central New York
• CLRC Region Digital Collections
  Links to Central New York digitized collections of unique materials relating to the region's history, culture, natural resources, and cultural tourism.
• Erie Canal Museum
  A private, nonprofit corporation located in the 1850 Weighlock Building in Syracuse.
• Franklin Automobile Photograph Collection
  Over 150 scanned photographs from the Onondaga Historical Association Franklin Automobile Collection. The photographs include selected images from the factory and production process, sales and advertising, and Franklin cars "on the road."
• The Freedom Trail in Syracuse and Onondaga County
• Old Fulton NY Post Cards
  Search old newspapers and historic photos from the Oswego County area.
• Gerrit Smith Virtual Museum
• German Immigrant Ancestors in Syracuse and Onondaga County, NY
• Harriet Tubman Home
• Historic Central New York
  An online exhibit celebrating Central New York's contributions to the social reform movement of the nineteenth century.
• Historic CNY
  Historic CNY is a quarterly historical magazine written and published by a group of local history buffs.
• The History of Syracuse
  From the City of Syracuse website. The site also lists the Mayors of Syracuse, Syracuse Firsts, and Little Known Facts.
• Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter Bibliography
• Jerry Rescue
• Manlius Historical Society
• Marcellus Historical Society
• Matilda Joslyn Gage
• The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation
• The Onondaga County Library Postcard Collection
  Over 300 digitized historic postcards of Syracuse and Onondaga County.
• Onondaga Historical Association
• Oswego County Underground Railroad
• The Political Graveyard: Onondaga County, NY
  Politicians who were born in, lived in, or died in Onondaga County.
• The Post-Standard Archives
  The Archives contain staff-written stories from The Post-Standard, The Herald-Journal and The Herald American from 1987 to the present. While there is no fee to search, a fee will be charged to retrieve the full text of any article in the archives. (Note: If you are an Onondaga County Public Library cardholder, you can access the Syracuse Newspapers for free through the library's online databases.)
• Safe Haven
  Read about the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter, America's only shelter for refugees of the Holocaust.
• Safe Haven Museum
• Skaneateles Historical Society
• Spafford Area Historical Society
• SUNY Upstate Health Sciences Library Historical Collections
• Syracuse Then and Now
• Town of Onondaga Historical Society
• Tully Area Historical Society
• Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement
  Text and images from an exhibition at the University of Rochester Library.

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Native Americans in New York State

• Ganondagan State Historic Site
  Ganondagan is the site of a major seventeenth-century Seneca town and its palisaded granary. Located in Victor, NY, it includes a reproduction longhouse, hiking trails, and a visitor center.
• Haudenosaunee: People Building a Long House
  The official home page of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Grand Council.
• The Iroquois Constitution
• Iroquois Indian Museum
  The Iroquois Indian Museum introduces the public to Iroquois by featuring their art, past and present, as a window into their culture. The museum is located in Howes Cave, NY.
• Iroquois of the Northeast
  A Carnegie Museum online exhibit.
• Iroquois.net
  Includes contact information for Iroquois Councils within New York State.
• Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs
• The Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne
• Ohwejagehká: Ha`degaénage:
  A nonprofit organization established to help preserve and nurture the Iroquois language and songs.
• Oneida Indian Nation
• Onondaga Nation School
• Peace 4 Turtle Island
  Basic information about the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois).
• Seneca-Iroquois National Museum
  Located on the Allegany Indian Reservation, within the city of Salamanca, NY.
• The Seneca Nation of Indians
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Northeast Region Native American Relations
  Lists federally recognized Indian tribes in the Northeast Region, their tribal leaders, and contact information.

Last updated April 24, 2008