19th century Queensbury — Crop thieves
Frost destroyed what thieves did not steal.
“Daniel Moynihan, a farmer residing on Sanford’s Ridge, had between forty and fifty bushels of potatoes stored in a field adjoining his house,” The Morning Star of Glens Falls reported on Nov. 24, 1893. “A few nights ago, thieves visited the premises and carried away about twenty bushels of the tubers. Those that were not stolen were left uncovered by the thieves and were rendered worthless by a heavy frost during the night.”
In other 19th century Queensbury news collected from historic newspapers of the region:
- It was a noteworthy potato crop in Queensbury.
“R.S. Ripley of Queensbury dug last week thirty bushels of potatoes off from a piece of ground 60 x 70 feet,” The Morning Star of Glens Falls reported on Sept. 9, 1890.
- W. H. Hutchinson bought The Halfway House (halfway between Glens Falls and Lake George) at French Mountain from Ezra Harman, The Morning Star reported on Feb. 3, 1894.
“The Halfway House was a popular summer resort before the building of the Lake George branch of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad.”
- “Robert Chapman has been filling his icehouse from Butler Pond, the first ice ever harvested from that place,” The Morning Star reported on Feb. 24, 1894.
- The Queensbury Town Board voted to hold their meetings for the coming year in the rooms over Cronkhite & Son’s store, The Morning Star reported on April 17, 1894.
- “The Coolidge Stock Farm will soon engage in the poultry business quite extensively,” The Morning Star reported on June 14, 1894.
- “Any farmers doubting the good of phosphates should look at R.S. Ripley’s corn and ask what he has done,” the Harrisena correspondent reported in The Morning Star on June 25, 1894.
- “Fishing and picnic parties are the order of the day at Lake Sunnyside,” The Morning Star reported on Aug. 25, 1894.
- Albert Traver caught an eel in Butler Pond last Saturday which weighed four pounds and measures three feet in length,” The Morning Star reported on Aug. 25, 1894.
