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Agriculture in Tompkins County – Evolving with the Times
By Monika Roth, Agriculture Extension Educator, Cornell Cooperative Extension Tompkins County September 21, 2018 FREEVILLE’S JERRY DELL...
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Historic Ithaca
- May 17, 2022
- 2 min
Letter from Susan Holland: May 2022
Dear Friends, May is National Preservation Month and I’d like to reiterate that preservation is a sustainable discipline. Historic Ithaca...
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Historic Ithaca
- May 17, 2022
- 1 min
History Happens Here: Guidelines for Teaching Local History
From 1986 to 1988, Historic Ithaca received grants under NYSCA’s Arts-in-Education Initiative to develop a local history curriculum, in...
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Ithaca Heritage
- May 12, 2022
- 2 min
Area Cemeteries Are Cultural Resources
By Patricia Longoria, Historic Ithaca Events and Community Engagement Coordinator October 16, 2018 In October, when the first frost...
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Historic Ithaca
- May 10, 2022
- 1 min
Architectural Heritage Honor Award from Preservation League of NY State
In April 1986, Historic Ithaca and the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission were joint recipients of the Preservation League of New...
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Ithaca Heritage
- May 5, 2022
- 2 min
HistoryForge: Connecting the Generations
October 03, 2017 Helen Henry, Irene Suzey, Susan Stephens, Fitch Stephens, Roger Williams, Caroline Williams, Gertrude Haviland, Clara...
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Historic Ithaca
- May 3, 2022
- 1 min
Clinton Hall
Clinton Hall, neighbor to the Clinton House, was built between 1837 and 1846 and is the most significant example of Greek Revival...
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Ithaca Heritage
- Apr 28, 2022
- 2 min
Caesar, the Ithaca Kitty, a Tompkins County Heritage Ambassador
November 04, 2017 Caesar Grimalkin, a gray tiger cat with seven toes on each white front paw, lived with Celia and William Hazlitt Smith...
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Historic Ithaca
- Apr 26, 2022
- 1 min
Barns
Following its designation as a Rural Preservation Company by the State of New York in 1984, Historic Ithaca began to focus on barns in...
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Ithaca Heritage
- Apr 21, 2022
- 5 min
October is Silent Movie Month in Ithaca. Let me tell you why…
By Diana Riesman, Executive Director & Co-Founder/Wharton Studio Museum and Board Chair/ Friends of Stewart Park October 03, 2018 In...
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Historic Ithaca
- Apr 19, 2022
- 1 min
Rural Preservation Company
In 1984, the State of New York designated Historic Ithaca as a Rural Preservation Company. Under this program, NYS provided funding to...
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Ithaca Heritage
- Apr 14, 2022
- 2 min
A Revitalized Eddy Gate in Ithaca's Collegetown
May 03, 2018 PHOTO COURTESY THE HISTORY CENTER IN TOMPKINS COUNTY “So enter that thou mayest become more learned; more thoughtful; so...
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Historic Ithaca
- Apr 12, 2022
- 1 min
Brick Cleaning Demonstration
In 1984, plans to repave East State Street were in development, and the Mayor, Common Council, and Historic Ithaca were in disagreement...
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Ithaca Heritage
- Apr 7, 2022
- 3 min
Ithaca Inspired – Stories of Ithaca and Tompkins County’s Outsized Impact
May 16, 2017 About a million visitors a year come to Ithaca and Tompkins County. They come for a bunch of reasons - for Cornell and...
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Historic Ithaca
- Apr 5, 2022
- 2 min
Geneva Moreland Spotlight Interview
a joined the Significant Element team in January as a retail associate. Geneva said, “This position has been really interesting. It has...
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Historic Ithaca
- Apr 5, 2022
- 1 min
First Baptist Church
When the City of Ithaca launched its Community Development program in 1975, it designated low-interest loan funding for the conservation...
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Ithaca Heritage
- Mar 31, 2022
- 6 min
Recognizing "Real Magic"
July 07, 2018 PHOTOGRAPH BY HANNAH DAVIS. By Hannah Davis Armed with a camera and recorder, I’m spending the summer documenting the...
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Historic Ithaca
- Mar 29, 2022
- 1 min
St. James AME Zion Church
St. James A.M.E. Zion Church was chartered in 1833 by a group of African American Methodists who had previously attended "colored class"...
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Ithaca Heritage
- Mar 24, 2022
- 1 min
Family Farms Keep Tompkins County's Rural Heritage Alive
July 12, 2018 PHOTO BY ROBYN WISHNA A mix of tradition and innovation. That’s what it takes to keep a family farm going in this era of...
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Historic Ithaca
- Mar 22, 2022
- 1 min
Moving the Red House
The moving of the “Red House,” in 1979, was Historic Ithaca’s first attempt at moving a building and was a remarkably smooth operation....
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