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Upstate New York
The state beyond the city. New York runs 300 miles west of the Bronx and most of its history happened out there: the canal that made the port rich, the falls that lit Buffalo, the river that carried the Dutch inland, and the battlefield where the Revolution turned.
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Saratoga 1777
Two battles on the Hudson in the autumn of 1777, the surrender of a British army, and the alliance that …
The Adirondacks and Forever Wild
Six million acres, a constitutional clause protecting them, and the only park of its kind in the United …
Albany and the Capital
Fort Orange, the Dongan Charter, the Albany Plan of Union, and why the seat of government is 140 miles from …
The Hudson Valley
The tidal river that carried the Dutch inland, gave American painting its first school, and produced a …
Niagara Falls
How a waterfall on the Canadian border became a tourist trade, an industrial power source, and the first …
The Erie Canal
The 363-mile ditch that made New York the Empire State, dug between 1817 and 1825 from Albany to Buffalo.