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History of Whitestown, New York, USA

Journey back in time to Whitestown, New York, USA

(Whitesboro)

Visit Whitestown, New York, USA. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

Where is Whitestown, New York, USA?

• 1854 - Whitesborough
  Whitesborough, a handsome post-village in Whitestown township, and semi-capital of Oneida county, New York, on the Mohawk river, the Erie canal, and...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1858 - Dreadful Railroad Accident!
  Morning Herald Office.
  
  UTICA, May 12. - A frightful Railroad accident occurred this morning at 6 ½ o,clock, on the Central Railroad, by the...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1862 - Whitestown
  WHITESTOWN, named from Hugh White, the pioneer settler, was formed March 7, 1788. It originally included an indefinite amount of territory, now...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1869 - Whitestown
  WHITESTOWN, named from Hugh White, the pioneer settler, was formed March 7, 1788. It originally included an indefinite amount of territory, now...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Whitesborough
  Whitesborough, whits’bür-rüh, or Whites’town, a post-village in Whitestown township, Oneida co., N.Y., on the Mohawk River, the Erie Canal, and the...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  View on Main Street Looking West, Whitesboro, N.Y.
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  Sauquoit Creek, Whitesboro, N.Y.
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  Main Street, looking West, Whitesboro, N.Y.
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•  1905 - WRECK ON THE CENTRAL. ENGINE EXPLODED JUST AS ANOTHER TRAIN WAS PASSING.
  Every Car Blown From the Rails – Two Railroad Men Killed and Several Passengers Injured.
  
  One of the strangest wrecks in the history of railroading ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1906
  Whitestown, a township (town) of Oneida co., N.Y. Pop. in 1900, 6235. See also Whitesboro.
  
  Whitesboro, a post-village in Whitestown township...Read MORE...