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The Mystery of the Devil’s Footprints
Article from the Syracuse Journal, May 2, 1913, one of the many newspapers which carried the Devil’s Footprints story. Where are the Devil’s Footprints? This simple question was recently posed to a...
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The Mystery of the Lost High Bridge Watch
Ad from the Troy Daily Times, January 17, 1883. On January 17, 1883 the Troy Daily Times ran an ad for a lost watch that will quicken the heart of anyone fascinated by High Bridge, the covered wooden...
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Rum-running Submarines off Croton Point?
An aerial photograph, taken by a Manhattan map-making firm June 11, 1924, near Croton Point, purports to document two submarines (possibly rumrunners), each about 250 feet long and 600 feet apart,...
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The Mystery of the Underhill Bible
Can you help decode this 19th-century document? Bookplate from the Underhill Bible. Last month we posted pictures of a bible offered on eBay, bearing the bookplate of Abraham I. Underhill, one of the...
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The Mystery of the Underhill Medal
Front of the silver medal awarded to R.T. Underhill in 1847. How did a silver medal from 1847, awarded to R.T. Underhill for the grapes he grew on Croton Point, end up buried in a garden on Long...
View ArticleThe Mystery of the Rum Plane
LIQUOR LADEN PLANE FROM CANADA FALLS AS IT NEARS CITY Drops 250 Quarts of Scotch Near Croton, Where Water for Highballs Comes From FLIER ESCAPES IN AN AUTO Car Apparently in Waiting Whisks Limping...
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On May 15, 1922, when the Rum Plane crashed in Croton with 250 quarts of Canadian Scotch, it attracted the attention of the police, the press and curious Crotonites. An article in the New York Times...
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