Amidst three generations of the Bartholf family, they registered over 100 years of service in the military, with wartime experience from...

Railroad expansion boomed after the war that helped bridge the country from coast to coast, but the power of trains still proved to be a...

After having served in the 18th New York Infantry and Cavalry, Urband Conklin (Co. C) eventually moved the furthest away from New York...

On August 11, 1862, twenty-eight-year-old Dr. Frank J. Mattimore left his medical practice in Albany to become the assistant surgeon for...

In 2008, I found this headstone in Cold Spring, New York, broken and so flush with the earth that it was nearly covered with dirt and...