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July 12th, 2024
A short history of the Bay View Reading Circle in Geneva.
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June 14th, 2024
The community response to Geneva’s attempts to address racial imbalance in its schools.
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May 24th, 2024
A look back at Geneva’s attempts to address racial imbalance in its schools.
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March 15th, 2024
The formation and activities of the Geneva Peace Council during the 1930s.
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August 11th, 2023
A brief look at the Friendship Squares of Geneva.
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June 16th, 2023
Overview of our relationship with Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
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April 6th, 2023
The city's first budget from 1898.
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March 10th, 2023
A continuation of the Finger Lakes Times Looking Back article about the March 1972 Geneva High School (Geneva, New York) student walkout.
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February 3rd, 2023
To mark the 125th anniversary of the city charter, an overview of how Geneva has changed as a municipality
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December 9th, 2022
Brief history of slot machines in Geneva.
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August 19th, 2022
Overview of the social rules followed by Hobart College freshmen during the 20th century
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May 13th, 2022
Brief history of Spanish Association of the Finger Lakes in Geneva, New York.
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August 20th, 2021
A comparison of the admission process at Hobart College in 1839-1839 and 1911-1912
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April 16th, 2021
Overview of lifelong learning opportunities from around the community.
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February 19th, 2021
A brief overview of vocational education.
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October 16th, 2020
Brief timeline of voting history in New York State
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August 21st, 2020
Chronicle of the Salvation Army’s presence in Geneva.
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June 5th, 2020
The Historical Society addresses the protests occurring across the country.
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November 14th, 2019
A review of the period of school expansion and reform in Geneva during the late 1800s.
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October 25th, 2019
Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church celebrates 70 years of making a difference in Geneva.
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October 18th, 2019
From student loans to summer camps to a local grant program, the Geneva Rotary Club has spent the past century serving the community.
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September 20th, 2019
The beginning of the Geneva Family YMCA
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September 6th, 2019
A brief history of the College Club of Geneva.
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August 16th, 2019
Part two of a brief history of William Smith College athletics
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July 26th, 2019
Brief history of William Smith College athletics.
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July 5th, 2019
Discussion on the impact of Title IX on young women and sports .
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April 26th, 2019
Overview of courses offered schools and colleges in Geneva during the 1800s and 1900s.
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February 8th, 2019
Overview of publications from Geneva High School
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February 1st, 2019
What was 19th-century schoolwork like?
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October 5th, 2018
Part one is a series about the World War I diary of Alice Seward
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September 14th, 2018
Overview of school buildings using photos and floor plans from "Report of [New York] State Superintendent of Public Instruction" (1897) including Cortland Street and Lewis Street Schools in Geneva, New York.
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August 20th, 2018
The creation of the Geneva War Chest during WW I
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August 2nd, 2018
How the 18th-century frontier raids by Native American warriors and British loyalists led to General Sullivan's campaign to destroy the Iroquois.
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July 6th, 2018
1968, the year the Geneva Historical Society opened Rose Hill Mansion as a museum, was a year of momentous change.
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June 15th, 2018
World War I experience of Andrew Hubbs
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May 11th, 2018
The Curator's latest find "Register of Geneva's Gallant Sons War of 1917-1919."
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January 5th, 2018
Many Americans are familiar with the segregated schools of the Jim Crow South, however, officially segregated schools existed in most 19th-century communities in the North, including Geneva. It took the concerted efforts of Geneva's African-American community to advocate for improved education and eventual integrated schools for their children.
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August 4th, 2017
Geneva Middle School students create a mural recounting Geneva High School boycotts of the 1970s.
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May 12th, 2017
Evolution of women’s rights in the United States
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March 31st, 2017
The latest additions to our "Geneva Stories" video series
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March 10th, 2017
Overview of suffrage songs.
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February 24th, 2017
Brief summary of the 1907 New York Woman Suffrage Association Annual Convention held in Geneva, New York.
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February 3rd, 2017
A timeline of the suffrage movement in Geneva, New York.
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January 20th, 2017
Free public schools appeared in Geneva in the mid-19th century.
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November 4th, 2016
The Geneva City School District can trace its birth to 1839, the year that the village’s Districts No. 1 and No. 19 merged to form the state’s first union school district. By the 1830s, the community had a College, dozens of private schools, and two public schools for the basic instruction of children of all classes. Yet schooling in the antebellum period here and throughout
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April 29th, 2016
While looking for information on Rose Hill (called the Boody Farm when Edgar Boody owned it) I found this account. I had heard a little about Klan activity in the 1920s, but had never pursued the subject. Now I wondered about the history of the Klan in Geneva and I started poking around in the local newspapers.
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January 22nd, 2016
A quick view of Hobart & William Smith Colleges during the tumultuous 1960s.
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January 8th, 2016
In 1960 I was 8 years old. Back then everyone attended the neighborhood elementary school, either public or parochial.
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October 2nd, 2015
If you did not go to the pre-screening of the movie The Suffragette at the Smith, you missed an incredible experience. Though the movie was about the British suffrage movement, there is a Geneva connection.
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September 25th, 2015
Very early on May 5, 1970, Ontario County Sheriffs arrested five Hobart students in a drug raid. The raid turned up hash pipes, pills and marijuana. One of the sheriffs was recognized by the students as “Tommy the Traveler” – a man who had been active on campus encouraging anti-war and anti-ROTC protests, and claiming to be a member of Students for a Democratic Society.
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July 10th, 2015
I’ve posted photos to the historical society’s Facebook page for two and a half years. Digging further into the collection to come up with fresh material, I found this photo of Castle Street
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July 2nd, 2015
The recent debates over Geneva’s school budget and national arguments about the Common Core curriculum have had me thinking and reading a lot about the history of education this past spring. Education and schooling have been part of life in Geneva from its early settlement, though not in a form most modern Genevans would recognize.
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May 29th, 2015
For over forty years women’s rights and dress reform advocate Elizabeth Smith Miller (1822-1911) called Geneva home. In 1897 Miller got the New York State Suffrage Association to host their annual convention in Geneva. After the convention Miller and her daughter, Anne, formed the Geneva Political Equality Club. The purpose of the club was to secure full suffrage for women.
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April 16th, 2015
One hundred fifty years ago this week actor John Wilkes Booth changed American history when he stepped into the Lincolns' booth at Ford's Theater and shot the president in the back of the head, the first man to assassinate a U.S. president. The assassination was an awful event that shook the nation just a week after Lee’s surrender overjoyed the North.
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March 2nd, 2015
The Geneva USO Club helped the community do its part during World War II.
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December 29th, 2014
In November 1943, the Geneva Daily Times reported Cole, Circus Owner, Inducted Into Army
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March 21st, 2014
A discussion on the importance of the War of 1812.
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December 13th, 2013
Brief overview of community organizations in Geneva during the 1920s.
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October 25th, 2013
History of dumps in Geneva.
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July 24th, 2013
Chronicling the problem of loose animals in Geneva, New York during the 1800s through newspapers and government records.
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July 3rd, 2013
The 126th New York Infantry Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg
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May 22nd, 2013
Fire related issues as chronicled in the Village of Geneva board minutes during the early 1850s.
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March 22nd, 2013
Robert Swan's reaction to the draft during the Civil War
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February 25th, 2013
A little over one-hundred fifty years ago, on September 22, 1862, President Lincoln took a step he had planned for months and proclaimed that as of January 1, 1863 “all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.…”
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