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History of Utica, New York, USA

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

     

•  1831 - DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN UTICA.
  From the Utica Observer of Thursday.
  
  On Sunday afternoon about 3 o'clock, a most alarming fire broke out in the stable of Messrs. DODGE & HART, in ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  American Scenery,
  by N.P. Willis, Illustrated by William Henry Bartlett, 1840
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• 1854 - Utica
  Utica, a handsome city of Oneida county, New York, on the Mohawk river, Erie canal, and Central railroad, Do miles W. N. W. from Albany, 5b' E. of...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1858 - TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT. SEVEN OR EIGHT KILLED - FIVE OR SIX FATALLY INJURED - OVER FORTY WOUNDED - CRUSHING OF A BRIDGE.
  Utica, May 11. - A frightful accident occurred this morning, at half-past six o'clock, on the Central Railroad, by the crushing of a bridge over the...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• June 18, 1861: First fly-casting tournament in the United States, Utica, New York
  
  The Old Farmer's Almanac www.almanac.com
  June 18, 1861
  
  
• 1862 - Utica
  UTICA was incorporated as a village April 3d, 1798. It was formed as a town, from Whitestown, April 7, 1817, and was incorporated as a city, February ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1869 - Four boys, the eldest seventeen years, have been arrested in Utica, N. Y., for robbing freight cars on the Central Railroad.
  They all plead guilty, and implicated a man named Wm. Ferry as the instigator of the robbery. It is thought their plunder, since the commencement of...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1878 - How a Hat Saved a Life
  MAJ. RUBE ALLEN, Com. Vanderbilt's favorite veteran engineer of the Central Road, a man of giant stature, with a brave heart, which is as tender as a ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1879 - First Five and Dime Store in America
  Five and Dime store: Founded by Frank Woolworth, Utica, N.Y., 1879 (moved to Lancaster, Pa., same year).
  
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• 1895 - Utica
  Utica, a handsome city of Oneida co., N.Y., on the Mo hawk River, the Erie Canal, and the Central Railroad, 95 miles W.N.W. of Albany, 52 miles E. of ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Utica (N.Y.) Conservatory of Music
  
  The Ladies' Home Journal
  July 1898
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  Busy Corner looking West, Utica, N.Y.
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  Utica, N.Y., Bleecker and Genesee Sts.
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  The Oneida County Court House, Utica, N.Y.
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• 1906
  Utica, a city, capital of Oneida co., N.Y., on the Mo hawk River and the Erie Canal, 95 miles WNW. of Albany, on the New York Central and Hudson...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1907 - Smoke Suffocates Two During Utica Hotel Fire. Several Other Persons, Overcome, Are Carried Out.
  Utica, May 23. - By a fire that caused less than $5,000 damage in the Metropolitan Hotel shortly after midnight, Mrs. Hannah S. Zintsmaster, an...Read MORE...