This day in Mohawk Valley history: January 16
Home Matters column from the Utica Daily Observer edition issued on January 16, 1874, Utica, Oneida County, New York.
![[Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., half-length portrait, facing front]. Dick DeMarsico, photographer, 1964. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Prints & Photographs Division](https://mohawkvalleymuseums.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/9D91607A-D806-4DE7-98B3-6ED38724CB77-180x180.jpeg)
This day in history: January 15
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., twentieth-century America’s most compelling and effective civil rights leader, was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia.
This day in Mohawk Valley history: January 14
Local Record, Locals In Brief, column from the January 14, 1897, Fulton County Republican, Johnstown, Fulton County, New York.
This day in Mohawk Valley history: January 13
Built at a cost of over $100,000, the fully equipped building is dedicated for the benefit of men and women of Little Falls irrespective of creed.
The Healing Powers of the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
The Wampum Chronicles: “The Healing Powers of the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son“ by cultural historian and author, Darren Bonaparte.
This day in Mohawk Valley history: January 9
This day in Mohawk Valley History from Days of Old recalled by Items Clipped from The Star Files, The Oneonta Star, January 9. 1924.
Mohawks Know the Dark Side of Bridges
The Wampum Chronicles: Mohawks Know the Dark Side of Bridges by historian and author, Darren Bonaparte.
This day in Mohawk Valley history: December 31
Dutch explorer Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert left Fort Orange (Albany), and passed around the little falls, possibly south of Fall Hill, while visiting Iroquois villages on his way to Oneida Lake. Most likely, he was the first white person to have visited this area.
![Harris & Ewing, photographer. USS Pennsylvania. [Between 1911 and 1917] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016853699/](https://mohawkvalleymuseums.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IMG_3163-180x180.jpeg)
Harris & Ewing, photographer. USS Pennsylvania. [Between 1911 and 1917] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016853699/This day in Mohawk Valley history: December 28
This day in Mohawk Valley History, December 28, 1917, Sailor Boys Hardly Know How to Thank the Ilion-Mohawk Relief.
![[Santa with toys in a sleigh, drawn by reindeer…] [between 1880 and 1890]. Part of Marion S Carson Collection. Prints & Photographs Division](https://mohawkvalleymuseums.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IMG_3154-180x180.jpeg)
[Santa with toys in a sleigh, drawn by reindeer…] [between 1880 and 1890]. Part of Marion S Carson Collection. Prints & Photographs DivisionTime for a Visit from St. Nicholas
‘Tis December 24, the day before Christmas, and all through the land, families send excited children to bed with a reading of Clement Moore’s classic poem, “A Visit from St. Nicholas.”