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January 21 2019

5 Smartphone Travel Apps for Exploring

Looking for new travel apps to help you explore a new place? Checkout these five favorites. by Chris Clemens Paper maps and gazetteers are great when you have a bad cell signal. But, when you’re in a city or region with great coverage, your smartphone has a lot of useful travel apps for exploring. Some […]

This Day In Upstate History

1676 Kateri Tekekwitha is baptized in present day Fonda, New York

1825 The town of Winchester is created in Wayne County by splitting off a section of land from the town of Williamson. The following year, Winchester would be re-named to become the town of Marion.

1888 Seth Green, fish farming pioneer responsible for the first fish hatchery in what is believed all of the Western Hemisphere, dies.

1906 The Haloid Photographic Company is founded. It would later become Xerox Corporation in 1961.

2009 Xerox announces that it wants to sell its Xerox Tower building and buildings within Xreox Square, and lease the space back from the owner. Later in 2013, Buckingham Properties would take ownership of the properties.

2015 The eleventh annual Tora-Con begins. The two-day event is an anime convention hosted at the Rochester Institute of Technology and featured guests Armcannon, Chalk Twins, Geek Comedy Tour, Josh Grelle, Cherami Leigh, and Chris Rager.