May, 1858. [We have no selfish ends in view in expressing ... built through the center of New York, and employed for no other purpose than carrying freight could be operated as economically ...

As a sickly young boy in New York City, Theodore Roosevelt learned taxidermy and started his own collection of stuffed specimens. At age 12, he donated some of them – a dozen mice, a bat ...

New York city owes its immense growth and wealth ... Lockport, N. Y., June, 1858. [Our old and constant reader in his zeal for the interests of the Erie Canal, forgets our independent position ...