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December 2 2012

Willard Memorial Chapel of Auburn – A Rare Tiffany Gem

Finger Lakes Region Auburn, Cayuga County

Visiting a rare work of Louis Comfort Tiffany art in the Willard Memorial Chapel in Auburn by Chris Clemens With plenty to see in Auburn, we set out for a day that included a bunch of Cayuga County sites. Foremost on our list was one of the rarest Louis Comfort Tiffany gems in America: The […]

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.