Cayuga Lake

April 17 2018

How to See the Seneca White Deer in the Finger Lakes

Finger Lakes Region Cayuga Lake, Finger Lakes, Geneva, Seneca Lake

by Chris Clemens In 1941, the United States government took control of a swath of land in the Finger Lakes right between Seneca and Cayuga Lakes. As the property would soon house one of the largest collections of ammunition in the country, a secure border fence was installed. That fence would ensure that no human […]

Finger Lakes NON-Wine Trail: Cayuga Lake

Finger Lakes Region Cayuga Lake, Finger Lakes, Finger Lakes Region, Ithaca

Since this writing was first published, the author has created an entirely new website dedicated to finding nonalcoholic options in the Upstate New York region. For more on nonacoholic options in the region, visit nonrocaholic. For the most updated list and a map around Cayuga Lake visit the Cayuga Lake Nonalcoholic Trail. by Chris Clemens […]

This Day In Upstate History

1843 (July 27 - 28) Former President John Quincy Adams, at the time serving as a Congressman from Massachusetts, spends the evening in Rochester dining at the Eagle hotel and touring Mount Hope Cemetery.

1877 Ephraim Goss, a Justice of the Peace; colonel of the State Militia; recurring term Supervisor of the Town of Pittsford; Clerk of Monroe County from 1838 to 1840; and a member of the New York State Senate (28th D.), dies and is buried in the Pittsford Cemetery.

1898 Free public baths are opened at the old Home of Industry on South Avenue in the city of Rochester.