At the Herman Melville House

Tag 1889

Houses of Ill Fame

THE TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE of Lansingburgh do enact and ordain as follows: All persons who shall keep a house of prostitution, or a house for the resort of prostitutes. All persons who shall keep a house or let the… Continue Reading →

A Handful of Coffin Nails

A gentleman at Lansingburg, N. Y. has discovered that tobacco can be so cultivated there as to be equal to the best cultivated in Cuba for segars, simply by pulling off the leaves when only partly grown. The Genius of… Continue Reading →

Lansingburgh Crazy Quilting

An Absorbing Topic. The crazy quilt mania is devastating the Northern cities. The young ladies ask for hat linings, scarfs and even the linings of spike coats. If high-buttoned vests should go out of style the men would have to… Continue Reading →

Civil War veteran Titus M. Gunn (abt 1826-1889) & Norman Rockwell

Titus M. Gunn is one of the African-American Civil War veterans with a headstone in the Lansingburgh Village Burying Ground. His name is on the African-American Civil War Memorial in Washington, DC: http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldier_id=f43ab6a3-dc7a-df11-bf36-b8ac6f5d926a One of Titus M. Gunn’s several siblings… Continue Reading →

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