Chemung History
Elmira, New York

By Diane Janowski © copyright - all rights reserved     I may be the only person who knows what the “Elmira Compact” was, although there...

by Diane Janowski, Elmira City Historian The Mountain House, located about three miles west of Elmira, was a famous roadhouse in the...

By Diane Janowski, Elmira City Historian A bear pit was completed at Eldridge Park the last week of June 1891. Two caverns and a pen were...

by Diane Janowski Over the years, many fine products have been made locally. If you grew up here, you learned about our fire hydrants,...