This post originally appeared on our blog at minermuseum.blogspot.com in 2015. We're bringing some of these old posts over to our new site, particularly those dealing with the museum's history, historical commemoration, museums and collecting, and the colonial revival. As we are celebrating the Alice’s one hundredth anniversary along with America 250 in 2026, it seemed appropriate to revisit some of these topics! Halsey in 1941 One very important person was not included in our post about the...

As part of the Bicentennial commemorations of 1976, the Town of Chazy published a pamphlet by local historian David K. Martin entitled Chazy and the Revolution. The original pamphlet can be hard to find these days, so we worked with Town Historian Ellen Riley to bring it back in a new edition. We've added color images, done some slight reformatting to the text to make it easier to read, and created a new map of cemeteries in the town where Revolutionary War veterans are buried that you can...

A version of this post originally appeared on our blog at minermuseum.blogspot.com in 2017. We're bringing some of these old posts over to our new site, particularly those dealing with the museum's history, historical commemoration, museums and collecting, and the colonial revival. As we are celebrating the Alice’s one hundredth anniversary along with America 250 in 2026, it seemed appropriate to revisit some of these topics! Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de...