Port Byron's History Corner

Here's another powerful poem that I would like to share.  Date of publication not known.  The Unknown Blue and Gray By  Wil...

Tonight was my first experience using Livestream.  When the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum announced the performance of Mar...

On June 18, 2012 at 12:00 Noon, the New York State Organization DAR is asking everyone to ring a bell in honor of the beginning of the Bicen...

Articles about Titanic from 1912

The Cayuga Chief  Weedsport, NY Friday February 14, 1941 The funeral of Mrs. Lewis Henderson, formerly of Port Byron, who died Sunday at ...

February 21, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEWS from Hildene, The Lincoln Family Home P O Box 377 Manchester, Vermont 05254 The Shires ...

Today as you celebrate the 4th of July, a day marking separation of our Country from England, please thank a veteran who continues to fight ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE Port Byron, New York Friday January 8, 2010 The Office of the Historian announces that a bible donated by Port By...

The legendary baritone opera star Richard Bonelli was born George Richard Bunn at Port Byron, NY on Feb. 2, 1889, son of Martin & Ida Bu...

Titanic-The Artifact Exhibit will be at the Rochester Museum and Science Center (RMSC) until January 18, 2010. The RMS Titanic was not only ...

Can you believe Ralph Waldo Emerson was invited to speak at Port Byron in 1858? It's true! A published book of Emerson's pocket diar...

I continue to be amazed at all the wonderful connections that the Port Byron area has. I was not aware that the cloth used for Horace Greele...

Google Books provides a more detailed list of those that were present when William Kemmler, the first legalized electrocution case was perfo...

Did you know that Port Byron appeared in the 1850 Annual of Scientific Discovery for analysis of our wheat flour? Chemical analysis of our...

Newspaper articles reflect that sculptor Byron M Pickett was born at Port Byron, NY the son of John Welcher and Lucy Pickett. Other article...

Most people when they hear the phrase "Lincoln Bible" they think of the inaugural bible. The President had several bibles. To my k...

HILDENE OPENS NEW LINCOLN EXHIBIT The Amos S King Bible from Port Byron, NY is now a featured item in a new Lincoln Ex...

Henry Hudson was the first European to explore what is today known as the Hudson River. He liked to call it "The River of Mountains&quo...

2009 Marks the 100th anniversary of the minting of the American penny that proudly displays Abraham Lincoln. Did you know that the Lincoln ...