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April 8th, 2022
A brief history of the American Can Company in Geneva (1901-1989).
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October 15th, 2021
Brief history of W.F. Humphrey Press
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September 17th, 2021
Early history of Geneva Federation of Labor.
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December 18th, 2019
The story of the Kashong Ice Company.
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November 21st, 2019
Tensions in the ice harvesting community
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August 10th, 2018
Brief history of hotels in Geneva.
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February 2nd, 2018
Debate in 1897 on whether Geneva should have a lunch wagon.
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October 14th, 2016
Brief history of music stores in Geneva, New York
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May 1st, 2015
Recently a nice article about one of our local restaurants, The Deluxe, was published in the Life in the Finger Lakes magazine’s March/April 2015 issue. The woman, who wrote the article, Margueite Abbott, did a lot of research at the Geneva Historical Society and we have put that information in a file for anyone to look at by coming to our archives. It was a
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January 30th, 2015
By the end of the war, there were almost 1,000 men who were enlisted in the army from Geneva. The loss of these men caused a drop in people who were able to work. The loss of the men from Geneva to the war was very problematic for the farming in the area.
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August 8th, 2014
Banking in the early years of the American Republic was decentralized, inefficient and disorganized, leading to frequent panics and depressions. As in many other areas of national development, it was the Civil War which prompted radical change in the country’s financial system.
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July 3rd, 2014
As we saw last month, the Swans at Rose Hill relied on female workers to do much of the housework and childcare. Running the farm operations required male workers.
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May 30th, 2014
At Rose Hill in the mid-19th century, the Swans hired laborers for agricultural and domestic work. This post examines the female domestic servants at the house
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May 23rd, 2014
Part two in a series about Herman Ten Eyck Foster, who was a neighbor to Robert Swan.
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April 25th, 2014
Part one in a series about Herman Ten Eyck Foster, who was a neighbor to Robert Swan.
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February 12th, 2014
An ode to spring
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February 5th, 2014
Overview of banking in early Geneva.
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January 10th, 2014
Overview of businesses in Geneva during the 1920s.
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November 15th, 2013
Grocery shopping in Geneva in 1957.
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May 31st, 2013
Robert Swan's farming practice was what the modern observer could call sustainable.
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March 25th, 2013
Robert Swan's transition from city dweller to farmer at Rose Hill.