By The Red Hook WaterStories team
From the late 1800s to the early 1900s, the cereal market started to emerge. Invented in western New York, before long it became popular. With the creation of brands like Kellogg, Quaker Oats, cereal would secure its position as a national...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
During a tuberculosis scare in 1934 a New York Health Commissioner study disproved the belief that people of color suffered in greater numbers than whites. The New York Age: National Negro Weekly reported that the study which compared Harlem...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
September, 1873 - Three sailors aboard the Schooner Julius Walsh sick with Yellow Fever. Two of the men were quarantined before the ship docked at Red Hook's Union Stores but a third man did not show symptoms until after the ship arrived in port....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Epidemics, New York in the mid-1800s knew them too well. Cholera was one of the city's biggest killers. The ports of New York Harbor were the economic engines of the region, but the all important shipping was also how outbreaks spread across the...
