Tag: KIngston Times Local History

Here in Jean Leon Gerome Ferris' "The Fall of New Amsterdam," Gov. Peter Stuyvesant is not looking particularly psyched at ...

The Miller map. Accurate descriptions of Kingston's original stockade, built between 1658 and 1677, have eluded historians for centuries. And ...

Lower Broadway, back in ye olden days. First in trickles, then in droves, the Dutch (obviously), Germans and Irish first, ...

Ed Ford. (Photo: Hugh Reynolds) Edwin Ford will be afforded a high honor indeed for a Kingston city historian — ...

Kingston Times Editor Dan Barton. I have had lots of opinions building up over my one-week vacation, so I am ...

Here are the latest intelligences from the City, which hath been retaken by the King's soldiers. The Continentals, giving a ...

A young participant in 2011's Burning. (Photo: Phyllis McCabe) The entire City of Kingston will be struck by British lightning ...

City Hall, as it looked in the years before the devastating 1927 fire. The story of Kingston’s city hall at ...

11 East Chestnut Street. (Phyllis McCabe) Two side-by-side examples of the work of prominent Kingston architect Myron S. Teller stand ...

(Photo courtesy HRMM archives) In this image from the Hudson River Maritime Museum archives, we see a postcard, circa 1905-1910, ...

Gen. Sharpe. Did a Union army officer from Kingston save Robert E. Lee from a trial for treason and possible ...

Longtime history lover and Kingston native Mark Yallum is making history. Yallum has started a Facebook group in efforts to ...

The Matthewis Persen House, one of four colonial stone buildings occupying the crossroads of John and Crown streets in Uptown ...