History in the Mail

Postcards and Historic Papers

September 27, 2024 No Comments

Master Maurice Luther was growing up in Gray, now a census-designated place in the Mohawk Valley of Herkimer County in central New York State. Gray

November 14, 2023 No Comments

Mr. James Stansbury lived in Coney Island, a peninsula extending into New York Bay in southern Brooklyn. Since the mid 19th century, the area was

September 7, 2022 No Comments

Fred Boardman lived in Utica, a city on the Mohawk River at the foot of the Adirondack Mountains in central New York. Utica became a

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