Bedford Hills

March 7 2017

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New York State Bedford Hills, Ithaca, Rochester

by Chris Clemens It’s not lost on me that Exploring Upstate has been covering a lot of food lately. Stumbling on to new places serving new things is always fun, and sharing that with you is also fun. And, that’s why there’s been so many recent food stories! I can’t be on the road all […]

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.